Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas by Sandra D. Bricker

Author:Sandra D. Bricker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas
ISBN: 9781934770450
Publisher: Guideposts
Published: 2011-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

It was bad enough that most of the singles had a front row seat for her meltdown, but Lucy also had to spend the entire hour’s ride back to the campsite listening to the story as it was recounted to Justin and Jeff. Matt knew it must be killing her.

“Our tour was one of the most amazing adventures I’ve ever been on,” Justin told them. “But I’d almost give it up to witness that!”

“You should have seen it,” Cyndi told them. “It just came out of nowhere and dove straight at Lucy and banged her right in the middle of her head.”

“Yeah, and one of the teenagers on the tour with us,” Brenda added, “turns to Lucy and says, ‘Dude. You got hit in the head by a bat.’”

Lucy clamped her eyes shut as the roar of laughter kicked in again, and Matt resisted the urge to reach out and pat her arm.

The attendant at the first-aid station had checked her thoroughly for bite marks, and he seemed to feel he was comforting Lucy by assuring her that rabies shots wouldn’t be necessary. As she tried to control the hyperventilating that the news evoked, the attendant had treated the scrape on her palm and bandaged her hand.

Even though the skin luckily hadn’t been broken, Lucy’s forehead was still emblazoned with a large red mark, and her face wore the expression of a whipped dog on a leash. Looking at her just about broke Matt’s heart.

When they arrived back at the retreat site, Lucy was the first one out of their car. Seizing the opportunity, Matt called to the others for their attention.

“Hey,” he snapped. “I think she’s had enough now. Let’s try to be a little compassionate, huh?”

“We’re just teasing her,” Brenda defended.

“And I think we’ve mastered that. How about we just be her friends now?”

Matt didn’t wait for their reactions before climbing out of the car. Lucy was already heading up the hill as Alison called them all toward the lodge for dinner.

“Luce?” Matt called to her. “Don’t you want to come and eat something?”

“Not hungry, Mattie.” She didn’t even look back at him, and Matt resisted the urge to run after her. He knew her well enough to recognize her unspoken desire to spend some time alone to regroup.

By the time Matt had filled his plate and joined the others at the table, Lucy’s adventure was being detailed yet again, this time for Wendy, who had ridden back in the other car.

“She’s had a tough day, hasn’t she?” Wendy sympathized. “It started out with the elk, and now this.”

“What elk?” Brenda piped up. “Are you telling us that Lucy had a run-in with yet another member of the wildlife community today? The girl is a drama magnet!”

Her raspy laughter rubbed Matt the wrong way. He dropped his fork to his plate and scuffed back his chair.

“Okay. I think we’ve enjoyed more than enough laughter at Lucy’s expense.”

“Oh, come on, Matt,” Brenda said. “Lighten up. You have to admit that this is all pretty hilarious.

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