In All Deep Places by Susan Meissner

Author:Susan Meissner [Meissner, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Romance, Women’s fiction, Suspense, Contemporary, Inspirational
ISBN: 9781937573560
Publisher: Greenbrier Book Company
Published: 2012-04-15T12:00:00+00:00

Norah seemed to ponder this for a moment. I thought I saw in her eyes a sad understanding that, just like all the other adult figures in her life, God, too, was someone who always got His way, regardless of what she wanted. I felt an itching urge to explain that with God it was different, but I hadn’t a clue where to begin. I didn’t even know why I knew that. Nor why it was okay. I said nothing.

“She’ll probably call when we’re at the swimming hole,” Norah said, “and I’ll miss it anyway.” The dying look came back.

I licked my lips. I had another idea.

“Or I could ask my parents if they would let the lady call back here. At my house.”

She turned her head toward me. “What if they say no?”

“What if they say yes?”

She turned away and sighed. “I’ll try unplugging her phone, first,” she said. “We’ll see…

A few seconds of silence followed.

“Where were you guys?” I finally asked. “You missed the Festival.”

Norah picked at a cuticle. “My grandma wanted to see her sister—my dad’s Aunt Eleanor. She lives in Albert Lea. In Minnesota. So my dad took us there in the camper. They didn’t ask Kieran and me if we wanted to come, they just said, “Get in the camper, we’re leaving.”

I waited.

“It wasn’t so bad. My dad’s aunt is kind of nice. She’s a widow, but she has a little dog Kieran likes. Her kids, my dad’s cousins, have all moved away. She never sees her grandkids, so she was kind of happy to see Kieran and me. She bought us each a long rope made of red licorice. Kieran ate his in ten minutes. I still have part of mine.”

“Kieran and I got to sleep in the camper by ourselves,” she continued. “That was nice. Grandma slept in the house, and Dad took Aunt Eleanor’s little car to Minneapolis for a couple days. I don’t know why.”

“So, I guess it was like a vacation?”

She looked up at him. “Yeah,” she said, as if considering this for the first time. “It was kind of like that.”

She did not ask me about my vacation or the Festival.

“Is Kieran doing all right?” I asked.

Norah looked away again. “I guess. Nothing has changed, if that’s what you mean.”

“Yeah, I guess that’s what I mean.”

“I still have until Christmas,” she said, rising to sit on her knees. “I better get back. They may want to come in where Kieran and I sleep and yell at me some more before they go to bed.”

She scooted past me and eased herself out into the canopy of branches. I watched her pick her way across the limbs, sometimes crawling, sometimes climbing, until she reached the pitched roof of Nell’s garage. She made her way across it to an open window with a beige curtain fluttering out of it and she disappeared inside.

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