Heart So Hungry by Randall Silvis

Author:Randall Silvis [Silvis, Randall]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-36593-4
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2004-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

George stood for a few moments before her, catching his breath. Then he folded his arms across his chest. “Well,” he finally said, and looked at her directly. “I guess you very near done it this time, didn’t you?”

“What did I do?” she asked.

“Why you just about had us crazy!”

Job halted a step behind George. Mina looked to him for a reaction but he was bent double, trying to catch his breath. She faced George again. “Had you crazy? About what?”

“Why, we thought you were lost!”

It made no sense to her. “Didn’t you see me over on that ridge when I fired those shots?”

“Yes we did. And when we got up to the end of the lake we fired two shots, and we thought you would come back then. I went up to the ridge to meet you. And when I saw you weren’t there I was sure you must have went down to the rapids. So I ran down there. And when I didn’t find you there I thought you either fell in the rapids or you got lost somewhere.”

He was so breathless when he spoke, his voice so tight and shaky with fear, that for his sake she tried to soften her tone. But his assumption that she must have done something stupid or careless was annoying. “Didn’t I promise not to go to those rapids?” she asked.

“I know you did. But I thought, when you went up there on that mountain all alone, maybe you would think different and go down to the rapids anyway.”

She kept her voice even and low. “When I got to the end of the lake and I saw you weren’t coming, and the thunderstorm was on its way and the flies were as bad as I’ve ever seen them, I thought I might as well be doing something interesting while I was getting soaked and eaten alive. I wasn’t going to just sit there for who knows how long and be miserable while I waited for you men to show up.”

He nodded, his face still grim. “That’s just what we said to each other. Who would ever think of climbing that hill in a thunderstorm?”

She understood that he did not mean the statement to be derisive, but a strange kind of compliment. She laughed softly.

George’s scowl deepened. “Look at us,” he said, and waved a hand toward Job. “Just look at what you done to us.”

“What have I done?” she asked.

“When I went to meet you and then couldn’t see you on the ridge, and then went to the rapids and couldn’t find you there, we begun to walk faster and faster, and then to run like crazy people. Poor Job, he could hardly speak, he was so worried about you. And neither could I. So there was both of us out of breath and half-crying all the time and not knowing where to look. And now we can never trust you to go off on your own again. We just can’t.”

His

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