Rez Rebel by Melanie Florence

Author:Melanie Florence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: 2017-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Mouse's House

The river gods were generous. The fish were all but jumping into the boat all afternoon. Mouse did a little dance and set the boat rocking every time he reeled one in. He never got tired of celebrating his catch. He exclaimed every time that this had to be the biggest lake trout ever caught. Except for Rodney, of course.

“Floyd! Check this one out, man! Have you ever seen such a beauty?” he would shout, as he held up his latest catch for my approval. I had seen such a beauty before. Ten minutes earlier, when he showed me the last one. But I dutifully smiled and told him how amazing each and every fish was.

It seemed like no time had passed before Mouse’s creel was full of fat trout. I was shocked to find that we had been fishing for almost five hours. Wow. Time really did fly when you were having fun.

“Floyd?” Mouse’s voice snapped me back into reality.

I turned to see him hitching his very full creel over his shoulder. “Are you ready?”

“Yeah, Mouse. I think we’ve got enough to feed the whole rez here.”

Mouse laughed. I could see he was picturing everyone sitting around his mom’s kitchen, eating fish dipped in her famous fish fry. It was a recipe that she refused to share.

I knew that every woman and quite a few men had tried to get it out of her at one time or another.

“So I can tell my dad about Rodney, right? I mean, he

probably already knows about him, anyway. Do you think? He’s never mentioned Rodney to me, but that doesn’t mean anything. And if he does know about Rodney, then maybe he and I can fish for him sometime. You know . . . when you can’t go out with me. That’s okay, right? You don’t mind, do you? Anyway, I bet he’s already heard of Rodney. Maybe he’s even hooked him, Floyd. Do you think so? ’Cause Dad’s a great fisherman. I bet he has.”

Mouse kept up a steady stream of chatter as we walked back to his place. I found that I really didn’t have to contribute too much to the conversation. Just the odd “oh yeah?” and “mm hmm” kept him pretty happy.

As I watched Mouse gesturing and laughing, I couldn’t help but think of his sister again. I had never taken much notice of her when she lived here. Why would I? She always had her nose stuck in a book. Her hair pulled into a messy ponytail with little pieces sticking up in crazy horns all over her head and her thick glasses made her look like an owl. A surprised owl if you talked to her and caught her off guard. She was nice enough, I guess. But back then when she smiled, there was so much metal in her mouth that if the sun happened to be shining and caught her braces the right way, you were almost blinded. I had never even really noticed she was a girl before.

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