Lisa Kane by Richard A. Lupoff

Author:Richard A. Lupoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC.
Published: 2011-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

She rose and dressed, made breakfast for Dad and herself and Lucy, and went off to school meeting Toni on the way and chattering and giggling all the way up Centre Avenue, and fidgeting and squirming through all her classes as she waited and waited and waited for the end of the school day to come.

Then home. Dad was already there. Oh, that was a relief! If he’d been in Stonesboro or anywhere else she would have burst, but he was sitting at his desk, shuffling final papers in and out of his brief case. They loaded their valises into the Volvo and dropped Lucy off at Toni’s house, and drove out to pick up Chris Simmons.

Leo waited in the car. Lisa opened the stiff, rusted gate and walked to the house. She went inside and Chris was ready. He and Lisa smiled at each other—they were both wearing heavy quilted jackets of a dull orange color and faded jeans and low hiking boots.

Aunt Stella was standing in the parlor, well back from the front window, looking out. She looked beautiful to Lisa. She came across the carpet and embraced Lisa and told her to have a lovely time on the trip. Lisa promised to tell her about it when they got back, and Stella embraced her and kissed on the cheek, and Lisa and Chris ran out of the house and jumped into the car and they were off with Lisa’s dad driving to Stonesboro.

A group of professors and their families and some graduate students from Howard Phillips University all met at the Gamwell Library parking lot in Stonesboro. They rode by bus all the way down to the big airport, and climbed onto the jet. Lisa got to sit by the window. Chris had the seat beside her. Leo Kane sat with Isaac Fineman talking intently and taking manila folders from his brief case, turning pages of typewritten papers and pointing to things, murmuring and gesturing with the old man.

The plane rose into the air and Lisa watched the ground disappear from beneath them. They climbed and climbed until they drove upward right through a thick layer of clouds. Up above the clouds Lisa clutched Chris’s shoulder and pointed out the window.

It was full night, a night that had been gray and misty on the ground but that here, above the clouds, was bright. The moon was high and within a day or two of being full. Once more Lisa’s eyes were drawn to it and her body felt strange, warm and almost flowing. But she made herself look away from the moon, first to some stars, then down at the clouds beneath the plane’s wings.

The jet engines gave off a ghostly glowing exhaust like cold flame, and the cloud layer rippled and billowed like a living landscape of heaving, fluffy white dunes. Lisa felt Chris’s face close to hers as he leaned over to see the sight she had called his attention to. He was warm and Lisa didn’t move away.

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