Melody by V.C. Andrews

Author:V.C. Andrews
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Finally, Grandpa Samuel looked up.

"The word I been getting," Grandpa Samuel said to Uncle Jacob, "is there'll be a good tourist season this year with the price of travel overseas going up and all."

Uncle Jacob nodded. "Aye. I heard that the hotels were looking good. There'll be lots of garbage to clean off the beach come this fall," he added. I knew where Cary got his attitude about the outsiders.

"How are the cranberries coming along?"

Grandpa Samuel asked.

"They look good. We're anticipating a decent crop."

"Does she expect to leave you here over the summer?" Grandma Olivia suddenly asked me.

"I don't know," I said. "I hope not."

She raised her eyebrows.

"And why is that? Aren't you being treated well at my son's home? They gave you Laura's room, I understand, and you're even wearing her things, aren't you?"

"Yes, I'm being treated well," I said quickly. "I just meant I would like to be with my mother. I miss her."

She smirked. "A girl your age should have a home and not be living out of a car mining on someone's pipe dreams," she muttered.

"We had a home and we'll have another one," I said, my voice full of defiance.

"What kind of home did you have in West Virginia?" she asked, not intimidated by my tone of voice.

"We lived in the trailer park. Daddy worked very hard in the coal mine. I never went hungry."

"And your mother, what did she do?"

"She worked in a beauty parlor."

"That figures," Grandma Olivia said. "That woman could wear out a mirror."

Before I could respond, Grandma turned

quickly to call the maid. "The adults will have coffee in the sitting room, Loretta."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Bring out some ice cream and some of the petit fours for the children," she ordered.

Children? I looked at Cary to see how he liked being referred to that way. He tucked the corner of his mouth in and gazed at the wall.

"Lucky for you that your Aunt Sara saved all of Laura's clothing," Grandma Olivia told me. "She always had such nice things."

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