Morning Will Come (New Chicago Classics Book 4) by Billy Lombardo

Author:Billy Lombardo [Lombardo, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tortoise Books
Published: 2020-04-07T20:00:00+00:00

His mother could never pass the dance studio on North Avenue lately without doing the same thing, getting right up against the glass and shading her eyes to stare at the dancers within. On Tuesdays, Dex and Sammy would wait for Audrey to pick them up from the front lobby after her English Department meetings at Francis Parker and they would walk down Clark, and when they got to the dance studio on North Avenue, Audrey would get right up against the plate glass window and shade her eyes. Sometimes Dex would hook his arm through Audrey’s to pull her past the studio so she couldn’t look, and she would drag her feet, pretending to laugh just to get a peek inside.

“You’re obsessed with the dance studio,” Dex would say, and Audrey would only shrug and smile and look back to see where Sammy was, and when he walked up to her she would put her arm around his shoulder. Dex was already too tall for her arm around his shoulder.

The week before, while Sammy was at a birthday party for one of his classmates, Dex and Audrey walked home without him. Dex ran to the dance studio ahead of her, and to tease her he shaded his eyes at the window just like he knew she would. Audrey laughed, and when she joined him at the window she shaded her eyes with her left hand and put her right arm across his back and rested her hand on his hip.

Inside, there were children standing along two walls watching a boy about Dex’s age. He wore black dress pants and a light blue shirt and stood in the middle of the dance floor with his arms held as though he were playing a guitar: his left hand at the invisible neck of the instrument and his right arm around its body, hand suspended in the air, ready to strum the imaginary strings. He stood stiffly, his chest filled with air, and the most serious look on his face, as though he were taking a test for which he had studied a great deal. A woman stood near the boy, instructing the others.

“They’re kids,” Dex said.

“Yes,” Audrey said.

“Is it always kids here?”

“At this time of day,” she said, “yes.”

A tall girl wearing a black dress walked up to the boy Dex had been watching. Her hair was black and obedient and it brushed her bare shoulders like cloth; she slipped into the space between the boy’s arms so that one of his hands held hers and the other settled above her hip. The children watched.

It seemed to Dex as though the boy had not moved the slightest bit to allow the girl into the space he had prepared, but she fit into it with such ease that it seemed as though the boy had accounted for all of her in the phantom hold of his arms. And inside the dance studio no one laughed at the boy and the girl.

At the

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