Fractured Karma by Straight Nancy

Author:Straight, Nancy [Straight, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-20T22:00:00+00:00

The more time I spent with Libby, the more cautious I began to be. She had recovered well from her injuries in the last two months. Initially, it was because I didn’t want jealousy to flare in Larry and result in him spilling everything he knew about me to Davey.

After a while, I realized it wasn’t Larry who worried me. Libby was a basket of bad decisions setting there with a big red bow on it. The girl had no fear. She was up for anything. She and Candy came along with Davey and me on a few of our adventures.

There was something about Libby. In the beginning I had tried to cut her and Candy out of my outings with Davey, partly because I caught myself paying more attention to Libby than I did to my brother. That was a wasted effort, because Davey wanted Candy with him all the time, even more so since they became engaged, and I craved Libby’s spontaneity. Everything else in my life was calculated – Libby lived in the moment – every moment.

I had been right the first day I met Libby in the hospital when I thought she would be aggressive on a racetrack. That girl pushed her car to the absolute limits and then really dug in. Davey waved her off of the track after she took a corner so sharp she had two wheels off of the dirt. He reminded her she was supposed to be taking it easy. Libby threw her head back and howled, “All four wheels are still on the car: that was taking it easy.”

Another trip Candy suggested we hit a bar to play pool. Libby held nothing back, making shots that included jumping balls and double-banks with hardly any effort.

She was a video game master, too. I tried to play a game with her, but I had never played the game before, so my character couldn’t keep up with hers. After at least ten times of having to stop and wait for me to catch up, she paused the game, reached over and took the controller out of my hand. Libby flashed a bright smile, and announced, “You suck.” I was sort of pissed, but her bravado somehow endeared her to me. Candy was right: Libby excelled at everything she did.

Two weeks ago I had shown up just before a late winter storm blew through. It started with freezing rain, then proceeded to dump five inches of snow on the icy roads, which shut down the interstates. The four of us had stayed up until 2:00 a.m. playing: Apples to Apples, Monopoly Millionaire, and Sequence board games. I felt like a kid again, or hell, maybe like a kid for the first time.

I always slept on the sofa when I stayed the night, which let me ease out of the house before the other three woke up. It was around seven a.m. when the front door creaked open and closed slowly. I wasn’t sure who

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