Imaginary Grace by Anne Holster

Author:Anne Holster [Holster, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

Grace

I closed the door behind him, then leaned my back up against it. What just happened? Pushing myself off the door, I went back over to my bed and sat down on the edge of the now-rumpled bedspread. Everything had been great until I mentioned his scar. Of course his reaction made me all the more curious about how he had gotten it – not that I planned on ever mentioning it again.

I wondered if I should tell Beth about Tanner’s strange mood swings lately; she always seemed to know just what to say. Like when I told her that Tanner and I loved all the same music and she said, “It’s like you guys were just meant to be.” I certainly liked the sound of that.

I glanced at the clock again; Beth should have been home from Adam’s by now. I wondered what Tanner would think if he found out that my roommate, who had a boyfriend, was out with another guy. It wouldn’t be good, that was for sure; Tanner didn’t strike me as the kind of guy who thought running around was okay. I didn’t want him thinking badly about her, and I didn’t want him to think that I would do the same—you know, the whole “birds of a feather” thing. On the other hand, maybe he wouldn’t care at all.

Just then I heard the doorknob turn. The door slowly creaked open and Beth hesitantly looked in, as if afraid she’d walk in on something. When she saw it was just me sitting on the bed, she pushed it open and sauntered into the room. “He didn’t show?”

“He showed,” I said smiling.

“Oh, that’s great, Grace! And…?”

“And what?” I asked nonchalantly.

“And…your usually neat-as-a-pin bedspread looks a bit unkempt,” she put her hands on her hips, “so let’s hear it.”

“Nothing happened,” I told her. “We played cards for a while, then we watched a basketball game on TV.” I paused for just a beat, but it was long enough to draw a raised eyebrow from my roommate. “And then something kind of weird happened.”

“Oooh, weird. Go ahead, I like weird,” she said, smiling as she rubbed her palms together.

“Well, not really weird… well, yeah, actually, it was weird.” I told her how he’d freaked out a little when I asked him about the scar. “It was like I’d asked about some deep dark secret.”

“That is weird, Grace. Maybe the scar’s like the result of some crazy traumatic incident that he had as a kid.”

“Or maybe,” I said, “it has to do with a girl. Perhaps an old girlfriend or something. Maybe he broke up with her and she came at him with a knife or a razor or something.”

Beth laughed. “Oh, Grace, don’t be so dramatic. He probably just fell off his bike or a jungle gym when he was little. Maybe he doesn’t want you to know that he used to be a klutz.”

I thought about what she said. She could be right, but she hadn’t seen his reaction.

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