Girl Gone Missing by Marcie Rendon

Author:Marcie Rendon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2019-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Cash spent the rest of the week going to school and driving truck. Each morning she woke to a breakfast made by Mo. There wasn’t another punji stick escapade.

Sharon, dressed in bell-bottom jeans and a thick over-sized mohair sweater, informed her on Monday morning that she was going to “just die” of embarrassment. She had gone to Professor Danielson’s office on the Friday before dressed in her sheerest hippie shirt. Instead of swooping her in his arms, he had talked her into babysitting his kids so he and his wife could go out for a drink and movie. Shame had forced her to hide out all weekend. “Sorry to have worried you and Chaské.”

She apologized for missing the Homecoming game. Cash told her not to worry—she had forgotten all about it too. Had shot pool instead.

That week, because she didn’t have to go to English, Cash spent more hours at the rec center to practice cutting balls into side pockets. Her judo improved. And on Wednesday, she found out she had successfully tested out of science. Another hour of pool was added to her school day. It was cheaper to shoot at the rec center on her student ID pass than to pay for a table and drink at the Casbah. By Thursday, Mo joined her at the rec hall.

And on Thursday, Professor LeRoy called her as she was crossing campus. “You’re still coming down with me to the Cities to get that award, right? Big honor for you, for the school, I know you’re going to place, take one of the top three awards, would hate to disappoint folks around here, not every day the school has an award-winning writer—at the state level, mind you. Makes us all look good, you’re on your way to grad school, and you just a freshman, thought about what classes you are taking next? Don’t waste that talent.”

Cash wasn’t used to folks who talked so much. Or so fast. She stood shifting her school books from one arm to the other, looking toward the rec center where she had been headed. “Yeah.”

“Good, good, good, you still planning to drive? Be a lot cheaper for you if you just rode with me in the state car. It’s free, you don’t even have to pay for gas, the school gives us a credit card for things like this.”

“No. I mean, I’m going to drive. I…” She couldn’t very well say, “I feel trapped if someone else is driving.” Or, “If I need to get away, I want my own way out.” She didn’t trust her words to make sense to most folks.

“Well, suit yourself, just make sure you are here on Saturday morning to follow me down. It’s a city, way bigger than this friendly, ha, Scandinavian oasis on the prairie, would hate to lose you once we get down there, no way to find each other if you don’t know your way around.”

Cash nodded and started to walk away.

“Renee,” he hollered after her, “there

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