June Bug by Chris Fabry

Author:Chris Fabry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian, Fiction
ISBN: 9781414341613
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2009-07-22T22:00:00+00:00

It felt good being in Mrs. Linderman’s house, kind of like what I’d pictured having a grandmother would be like except without all the fancy furniture and the round-the-clock help. I imagined having cookies and lemonade and laughing and hearing stories about riding in a covered wagon. I also thought a grandmother would give you stuff, like earrings or a doll or maybe a new outfit she saw at Target and just couldn’t pass up.

But with all the good feelings, I still felt nervous. I now knew my dad wasn’t my real dad, and that brought up a bunch of questions. I always thought the biggest one in my life was who my mama was and what was she like and what did I get from her like a nose or my eyes or some disease. But it only takes something like a visit to an old woman’s house to let you know there are other questions floating around out there like butterflies and that it’s hard to catch the answers. There’s not a net big enough for all my questions.

When my dad clicked around to the news station, he landed on one with a lady wearing a pretty scarf tied around her neck, and I thought it might be the wrong time of year for that but what do I know. She looked like she had on all the makeup in the world and it made her face look like some doll in a store window, smooth as porcelain and shiny, and I doubted that was the way she looked when she got up in the morning. She said something about the “top story” being about a missing child case in West Virginia. We’d seen the story at the farmhouse, but it was hard for me to concentrate there. I moved up real close to hear the reporter’s voice. Seemed to me like the last place on earth he wanted to be was Dogwood, West Virginia. He had perfect hair and a nice face except for these beady eyes that seemed suspicious of everybody.

They showed a picture of me as a kid and then the age-progression one and said my mother was a lady named Dana Edwards. That was a new piece of information. Then they showed an older lady who was walking from her car into a house and shielding her eyes from the lights. The reporter said she was the grandmother.

“I’ve told them all along she was alive,” the woman yelled. She looked a little bit angry. “And now they’ve let the man who took her go!”

I think the news people like it when people scream or cry or throw something. I don’t get to watch much, but every time I’ve seen the news, somebody is pitching a fit about something. Gas prices or an election or some issue that has their veins sticking out on their necks. My dad, even though he’s not my real dad, always says that what gets people riled up is what makes the news.

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