Iona Moon by Melanie Rae Thon

Author:Melanie Rae Thon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497684980
Publisher: Open Road Media

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Willy Hamilton hadn’t placed any higher than third all summer. His dives were sloppy, his knees weak. Every time Coach Brubaker yelled at him to lock his legs, he thought of Jay slamming his brakes on the River Road.

So far the only good thing that had happened since school let out was the that Iona Moon had left town. Word had gotten around that she’d pulled a train for Darryl and Kevin and Luke, in that order. Willy was glad she wasn’t here to dispute it. He knew the truth, but he kept his mouth shut. You’re an asshole, Willy. That’s what she thought.

Still, he couldn’t get free of her. Horton had to haul Leon Moon in for drunk and disorderly one night in July. Now Iona’s brother was married to Jeweldeen Wilder. Poor bastard. Jack Wilder didn’t exactly hold a shotgun to Leon’s head, but everyone knew their first baby wasn’t going to take nine months. Having a sister like Iona was bad enough, but being forced to marry her best friend was worse.

Willy was glad he didn’t have to worry about that. No girl was ever going to trick him, telling him not to worry, saying: I’m safe, then coming to him a few weeks later to say she was sorry, she’d made a mistake, a slight miscalculation that would cost him his life. Flo had told him to watch out for that. Girls do it all the time, she’d said, when they see a nice boy like you.

Horton said: The only way to stay out of trouble is to keep your pants zipped. They talked this way back in the days when he’d parked by the river with Belinda Beller. He wanted to tell them: Above the neck or below the knee. She kept him in line. He wondered what he’d do with a girl who didn’t say no. Resisting Iona Moon didn’t prove anything. He never did like her, and still, he’d had to think of old Mrs. Griswold when he felt himself getting hard.

Sometimes he was even afraid of his sisters. When they tripped him in the living room and wrestled him to the rug, he felt the surge of blood and prayed they wouldn’t notice. What a hoot they’d have, shrieking and pointing. It wouldn’t last long, he could be sure of that. But he didn’t know what he’d do if some pretty woman touched his face or leaned close enough for him to smell her hair. What if he started kissing her neck and she let him work his way down to the bones of her shoulders? Whose hand would stop him if she said “Touch me”?

Willy lay on his bed, rolled to his stomach and buried his face in the pillow. He hoped the lack of air would make the feeling go away. Just thinking about it scared him. His sisters giggled. What were they doing? He remembered Mariette telling Lorena that Dr. Tyler had cornered her by the filing cabinets after everyone else had gone home.

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