Kendra by Jane Keehn

Author:Jane Keehn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tablo Publishing

Emily – Kendra - Chapter 15

Emily led Kendra through the Fair, past the street corner of the Maritime Centre and along the coastline pathway around Meg’s Cove.

Emily enjoyed the slow walk.

- I'm not far from here. Do you have someone at home you have to get back to?

- No, I don’t. No wife, no kids, if that’s what you mean.

Kendra’s cool arm curled through Emily’s as she kept balance.

- Do you?

Emily laughed a little louder than she had wanted. She wasn't expecting the wife and kids reference.

- No. Just me and Leo.

They passed the limestone wall along the promenade, stumbling over the rocks and sugar-like sand with her weakened legs.

Kendra slid her hand around Emily’s and leant against her side until she felt Emily’s arm take some of her weight.

- Do you need your sticks back?

- No I’m okay, if you don’t mind me holding you for a while longer?

The fine hairs on Emily’s arms felt nice rubbing against her own smooth, hairless limbs.

- I don’t mind. We’re nearly there.

That’s Meg’s cottage at the end of the lane.

Leo bounded from behind the fence and ran to greet them.

- Have you always lived here?

Kendra turned around to prevent Leo snuffling too close.

He growled a little quizzical bark at her.

- Leo! Stop that. He’s just hungry.

Emily slapped the dog lightly on his rump to hurry him inside the fence.

- It’s my grandmother’s old home. When my parents died I moved in with her. I’ve been here about twelve years now.

Kendra looked back over the water as Emily opened the door; the sea flickered with lights from the Esplanade’s Fun Fair as a lighthouse beam scanned the water.

Emily fumbled with her house keys; she suddenly felt self-conscious about the aged crumbling fishing buoys and nets hanging on the house’s facade.

- Did your parents fish for a living?

Emily glanced back at Kendra.

- Yes, for a time.

- What are their names? My grandmother might have known them.

Kendra rested her crutches against the front of the house as Emily made her way onto the front veranda, facing the ocean. She grabbed the railing.

- I don’t think so; they pretty much kept to themselves.

Kendra couldn’t think of how to stall the conversation further, so she spun around while still holding the bar and faced Emily.

- Acacia and Bobbi.

- So your Mother and Father worked together, like a family business?

Kendra paused, rephrasing in her mind the continued conversation.

- My Mothers...Acacia and Roberta – or Bobbi for short.

Emily was speechless and intrigued.

Kendra continued the tale. One that she hadn’t told to anyone.

- It wasn’t really the “done” thing twenty-so years ago - two Mothers - so we stayed out of town and kept to ourselves.

Emily grabbed the railing and swung to look at Kendra directly.

- Two mothers. Wow. Yeah, I can imagine that would have been very unique in Mandalay back then. You must really miss them.

Kendra stood staring out at the sea.

- We didn’t have enough time together before the black water…the explosion.

Emily leaned forward.

- At least I had my grandmother to take care of me.

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