Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

Author:Kevin Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

A new rumor moved quickly through the family, a weird game of telephone that traveled around and around the complex until everyone thought they understood the weird thing going on.

The first time Izzy had experienced it, in her third month at the complex, it had been disorienting, the way several different people, all believing they were the first to tell Izzy, sidled up to her after dinner or while she was walking through the courtyard, to inform her that David and Susan had made friends with a couple outside the complex and had met with them in Nashville several times.

“Who has time for other people?” Nina had wondered after David and Susan had driven to the city to see a movie with this couple, the husband a friend of David’s from college. “Should we tell Dr. Grind about this?” Kenny asked, and Carmen replied, “Why?”

“Shouldn’t he know that, I don’t know, members of the family are hanging out with other people?”

“That sounds really weird, Kenny,” Carmen informed him. “Like something a stalker would say.”

Nina jumped in. “Maybe, but it’s still weird. I know we’re not all gonna be best friends or anything, or even like each other, but it feels like a slight to choose them over us.”

“Maybe it’s different because we’re family, but they’re friends,” Izzy offered and Carmen frowned.

“C’mon, Izzy,” she said. “Dr. Grind’s not around.”

Nina continued, “I mean, there isn’t someone in the complex that they’d like to spend time with?”

“Your feelings are hurt?” Carmen asked.

“Yes,” Kenny and Nina said at the same time, and then Kenny again said, “Should we tell Dr. Grind?”

The next day, Kenny did tell Dr. Grind, who only said that it was a process, getting used to the complex and the kind of life within it, and he said it would work itself out. And it did, Izzy discovered. After a few months, David and Susan stopped seeing their friends and when Nina casually brought it up at dinner one night, Susan said, “It was nice at first; it felt like nothing had changed in our lives, but then we kept talking about things going on here, the kids and the complex, and they seemed to get weirded out by it. They started trying to get us to admit, every single time we met, that we were in some kind of cult, and so we just stopped responding to their e-mails and then they stopped asking.”

“We were getting worried,” Kenny then said.

“What? That we would leave this place?” David asked, smiling.

“Maybe,” Kenny allowed.

“We’re here,” Susan said. “Don’t worry about that.”

A few seconds later, after everyone went back to their meals, Kenny said, “Good,” so softly Izzy thought only she had heard it.

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