Snow Job by Charles Benoit

Author:Charles Benoit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Monday, December 26

IT WAS AFTER TEN WHEN I WOKE UP.

My father had left for work hours ago, and there was a note from my mom saying she and Eileen were out post-Christmas shopping, so I had the house to myself. I put an album on the stereo—Queens of Noise—cranked up the volume, took a long, hot shower, and thought about Dawn.

She had me drop her off down the street from Reg’s house and told me not to hang around, but I stayed there until she got in the front door, waiting for yelling or a scream for help. It was quiet, though, and after ten minutes I went home.

It didn’t make sense, Dawn going back to that house, not just walking away. I couldn’t see Karla putting up with it, and Karla wasn’t nearly as tough as Dawn. But then again, Karla didn’t have a mentally retarded sister counting on her. That’s why Dawn went back. And that said a lot about her.

Dawn was smart, that was obvious, and not just street-smart, either. Something in the way she talked, the way she looked at me, her dark eyes taking everything in, seeing everything clearer, deeper.

Maybe it was because she was older.

Wait, was she?

She could be twenty-five for all I knew.

Or sixteen.

Girls with that look, they could pass for whatever age they needed to.

Still, she’d be old enough to know that it wasn’t going to get any better staying with Reg, and smart enough to know she needed a way out. But there she was, going back, not a word about moving on. None of it made sense.

Like her being out by the Stop-N-Go at midnight.

I had a lot to think about.

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