Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

Author:Jason Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2010-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

I gave in and called my old man to tell him I wasn’t coming back for a few days. He sounded relieved, but then started stammering an explanation, and how sorry he was for everything, and where was I staying? I didn’t know how to feel anymore and was tired of trying to work it out, and about halfway through it dawned on me I could easily make it all go away and put the phone down.

On Sundays the Hascotts went to the Country Club. Ivan was getting excited because he knew Adele Cairns would be there and he was definitely going to ask her out, and if she said yes then he was in with a chance of finally checking out those nyombies.

“I swear, they’re huge,” he said as we drove in convoy behind his old man. “She’s an absolute babe in a swimsuit.”

It was a hot day, and most of the kids were out by the pool while the mothers played tennis and the men sat around the bar. Adele was easy to spot. She was beautiful. She was in a red bikini, rubbing in oil and watching over her little brother messing about in the water, and I thought she was amazing. Not perfect, but that made her far better than the waxlike babes I’d checked in any edition of Scope because she was real. She wasn’t tall and she wasn’t short, and she had freckly pale skin and long brown hair, which she combed with her fingers. She kept her arms self-consciously close to her chest, but if anything that just made her more alluring. Above all that, she looked kind, not barbed like so many other girls I’d met who thought they were pretty.

I felt a small stab in my chest—I was envious. I wanted someone like that. I only hoped Ivan wouldn’t be able to tell.

He played it cool at first. We went to the bar and got Cokes, but as soon as we’d finished we were in the pool making a load of noise and splashing the laaities. Ivan made two of them cry, then play-fought me and ducked me for almost a minute, and when he finally let me up, spluttering like an arse, he was already off to make his move.

After a few minutes chatting they went inside and I was on my own.

I tried pretending I didn’t mind and swam a bit more, then stood around the pool to dry off, but I didn’t know anyone so I walked around the garden. In the end I just sat on the grass at the side of the Club where the workers were barbecuing steaks. One of them began talking to me, and when he asked about my mother and father I shut him up by getting him to kife me a free beer from the bar.

Ivan came back with a huge grin on his face.

“That chick gives.” He grabbed my beer and took a swig, although I didn’t believe him because,

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