My Best Year by William Hazelgrove

Author:William Hazelgrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633931510
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 2015-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

LECHEROUS GURU

PAUL

I DON’T EVEN KNOW why I did it. But some of things Julie said to me hit home. I just didn’t feel like going home yet, and it was one of those early October days where the air is perfect and reminds you of when you were a kid. Besides, I still had that convertible, so Amber and I just took a drive out into the cornfields with a cold six-pack and a pack of Marlboro Lights.

And Amber didn’t say a thing after I suggested we go for a ride. She just laid back and looked really beautiful and young in that white Mustang. I opened her up and we were flying and then I realized where I was going and turned off on to that cornfield from years before. We bumped down the road and then I turned around and turned off the motor. I cracked open a couple beers and handed one to Amber.

“You want a cigarette,” I asked pushing in the car lighter.

“Sure.”

I lit hers then mine and we toasted, and that beer never tasted so cold.

“This is beautiful,” she said looking out over the cornfields.

“Yeah. “ I inhaled deeply and felt the lull of the nicotine. “I used to go parking here when I was in high school.”

Amber raised her eyebrows.

“And?”

I nodded slowly.

“And it was great.”

She smoked then and I felt where her hand had been on mine on the drive out. Something was going on and had really been for the last year. I was changing and I wanted to touch something one last time before I was too old to care.

“Maybe Julie is right. Maybe this is all nuts,” I muttered feeling the strong hit of smoke in my lungs.

Amber turned to me with a strand of hair painting her right eye.

“What’s that?”

“Doing all this crazy shit so Toby can have a good feeling about high school. It’s like some guy putting reindeer on his roof to make his daughter believe there is still a Santa Claus.”

Amber feathered back her hair and tipped her head back.

“You seem like someone who would do something like that.”’

I hung my hand outside the convertible and stared off across the cornfields.

“That’s the problem.”

“That’s what I like about you, Paul. You’re different. You would do anything if you thought it was the right thing to do. I mean, what you told me about it’s an eat-what-you-kill world changed my life. I was waiting for someone to come along and tell me what to do with my life but you’re right. We have to make it up for ourselves now. That old world is gone and if we don’t do it then no one will.”

I winced and stared across the long roll of land. The role of guru to the young is easy to play, and I played it very well to a beautiful young girl in her twenties.

“I’m so full of shit,” I muttered.

“No you aren’t. And what you are doing for your son is remarkable.”

I shrugged.

“Maybe I’m doing it all out of guilt.

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