Rose-Shooting Stars 3 by V.C. ANDREWS

Author:V.C. ANDREWS
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 0671039954
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2001-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

wondered.

Time keeps all the secrets buried under weeks

and days, hours and minutes, and we poor unfortunate

souls have to pluck them away second by second,

searching for our discoveries, our great moments of

pleasure and happiness, and our great moments of

terrible disappointments and sadness, I thought.

How soon would we know what secrets awaited

us here? I felt confident there would be more than

one.

Mommy was so eager to go home and start our

packing, she was downstairs and ready to leave as

soon as possible. Charlotte offered to hire people to

help, but Mommy explained that we had so little of

real value to bring with us, it wasn't necessary.

"We'll donate our pathetic furniture to the

Salvation Army," she told Charlotte. "Not a piece of it

would belong here anyway."

Pathetic? I thought. Once it was special to us;

once we were happy about the house we had rented

and the furnishing we were able to manage. Now, that

was all to be discarded like so many of our recent

memories. I knew if Mommy could, she would wipe

her mind clear like some magic slate. She would be

like Daddy was and think. Forget the past.

Conrentrate only on the here and now. How sad it was

that we had very little to cling to, to bring with us.

Even our photo albums, full of pictures from so

many different places, so many homes, looked more

like a travelogue than a family history.

"I'm happy about that," Charlotte told Mammy

and then looked at me as well to add, "You're both

starting a new life. Rose. Let everything be fresh.

We're going to take you shopping for new clothes,

too, and new shoes to match. Don't even bring an old

toothbrush. I have new ones in your bathroom

cabinets.”

Mommy laughed and the two of them walked

out arm in arm as if they were already old, dear

friends.

"I'll say good-bye to Evan," I shouted after

them.

"Oh, yes, do that, and be sure to tell him you'll

be back tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, but that's so quick, Mommy. I

have school and I have. . .”

"Charlotte has arranged it all. Rose. You're

enrolled in the school here already, remember? The

administration is getting your transcripts in the

morning."

"How did..." I didn't finish the question.

Mammy had already turned away. I finished it in my

thoughts, however. How did she know we would

accept and come here for sure?

It put a cold but electric feeling through my

veins and made my heart thump for a few moments.

Were we so desperate and forlorn that anyone could

come along and hold our destinies in the wind like

kites and watch us be blown from one place to

another? I could feel it. Whatever little control we had

of ourselves was drifting away.

Daddy had done a great deal more than he had

ever dreamed when he had his love affair with

Angelica and a child with her, I thought.

Evan's door was open this time, but he was

back where I had found him previously, at his

computer.

"Hi," I said. He wasn't wearing earphones. "I

guess it's happening. We're actually moving in

tomorrow," I said. He kept working as if he hadn't

heard me. "Did you hear what I said, Evan?"

"Yes, but I knew that was going to happen," he

replied, still working the keyboard and looking at the

monitor.

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