Just Morgan by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Author:Susan Beth Pfeffer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497682764
Publisher: Open Road Media

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

I spent the week waiting for it to end. I bought two dresses I had no use for, and debated endlessly with a remarkably patient Maud about which one I should wear. I called Ronnie every day to ask her questions to which she had no answers, although she tried valiantly to help. I commanded Josh to tell me everything he knew about Jimmy, and he obliged with cheerful tolerance. Tom though was out for most of the week, spending much of his time with Miss Maxwell. He and Josh limited their conversation to monosyllables, and while he was a little friendlier with Maud and me, there was nothing that approached what had passed for intimacy before. I was quite content to daydream about Jim; if it hadn’t been for that, I would have been almost eager for school to start again. Trinck answered my lengthy letters with the briefest of postcards, and I realized, feeling disloyal, that I was becoming much friendlier with Ronnie than I was with my roommate. I knew the problems that might result but I chose, when I did think about it, which wasn’t too often, to assume that once Trinck got to the city, everything would be all right. In the meantime, I had a social life to occupy my thoughts.

Friday evening finally arrived. It took long enough to. Maud had already left (she was taking the weekend off), so I dressed and put on my makeup without her assistance. I took the small bottle of cologne she had picked out for me and splashed it generously all over my wrists and earlobes, feeling feminine and sophisticated. After checking myself in the mirror for the tenth time, I went into the living room to await Prince Charming.

Tom was sitting there as I came in. “My, we’re all dressed up, aren’t we?” he said.

As it happened, he was dressed up too, so I assumed his “we” wasn’t meant sarcastically. “Yeah, we sure are,” I agreed.

“Where are you going?” he asked.

“To the movies,” I said guilelessly.

“Alone?”

“No, with Jimmy.”

“Jimmy who?”

“Jimmy Green. Don’t you remember?” I asked, and then realized I had never told Tom about my date. He simply hadn’t been around to tell.

“No, I don’t. What am I supposed to remember?” Tom asked, annoyed. That wasn’t surprising; he had been all week.

“Oh didn’t I tell you?” I asked, trying to get out of a bad situation as best I could. “Jimmy Green is Carol’s brother. The one Josh told us about. He asked me out for tonight, and I said yes.”

“Without asking me?”

“You said it would be okay. Just as long as I got back by twelve.”

“Did I? I shouldn’t have. You’re much too young to be going out.”

“But you said I could. Don’t you remember?”

“Look, don’t tell me how to raise children, young lady.”

“But he’s already coming over. He’ll be here in five minutes. Tom, please, you said I could.”

“How will I know if you get back by twelve? I’m not about to spend my evening sitting here waiting for you.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.