Little Beasts by Matthew McGevna

Author:Matthew McGevna [McGevna, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781617753473
Amazon: 1617753475
Publisher: Kaylie Jones Books
Published: 2015-07-06T12:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

THE SUN WAS BACK OUT AND BURNING HOT when James Illworth awakened. He rolled over to his side and lifted his head. He was alert enough to know that he was not in his room. He was on a strange floor. Gradually he sat up to see he was near the foot of a bed, and it finally dawned on him he was in Dallas’s room. Then he remembered his father falling in the driveway, and Mr. Darwin giving him permission to stay over to “let your father sleep it off,” as he put it.

James rubbed his scalp, yawning. He got up slowly, staggered a bit, and then stretched his arms up to the ceiling. Dallas had opened his eyes, and was moving around under the covers. A stir caused James to turn. Felix was sitting up, looking around as if he shared in James’s initial confusion. The room began to come alive. The bedside clock read 8:07 a.m. Dallas sat up and pulled the covers off. He stood, crossed the room, and opened the door. Sunlight poured in through the glass doors that led to his back porch.

Dallas stretched in the doorway and looked out into the kitchen. There was a half wall that divided it from the dining room, and Dallas could see that his father was at the counter making sandwiches for lunch. This was how Dallas knew it was Sunday. His father made all the preparations early in the morning so that there could be no excuses or hold-ups for church service at three thirty. Dallas frowned, and looked over at the couch in the living room. Sure enough, his clothes were hanging, pressed, over the arm of the couch. His father must have snuck in while they were all asleep and picked out his Sunday outfit. The little black clip-on tie hung from the top of the hanger. He sighed, and wandered into the kitchen. His father noticed him, and glanced over before returning to his work.

“Morning, Dallas,” he said. “Mom’s still asleep. We have church today.”

Dallas yawned, and looked out at the gorgeous day. Such a contrast to the day before. “Not till later, though, right?” he asked. He could sense his father grinning, though his back was still turned.

“The answer is yes. You can go outside and play, but I want you back here at one thirty to get ready.”

Felix and James both stepped into the dining room. They were still in their clothes from yesterday, while Dallas was wearing his pajama shorts and no shirt. He stared at his two friends, dressed in shorts, socks, and T-shirts, and suddenly moved toward the bedroom.

“Go outside, I got to get dressed,” he told them as he breezed past and closed his bedroom door. Felix and James said hello to Mr. Darwin and filed out onto the back porch to wait for Dallas.

Impatient, they jumped down from the porch after a minute and started kicking around a basketball they had found under the bushes. Soon enough Dallas emerged from the house, all in green.

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