Sound of Silence by Mia Kerick & Raine O'Tierney

Author:Mia Kerick & Raine O'Tierney [O'Tierney, Mia Kerick & Raine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64080-097-7
Publisher: Harmony Ink Press
Published: 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

THE HOUSE has seen better days, and plenty of them. In fact, it’s an excellent candidate for an episode of A&E’s sappy Flip This House. I park on the street, one house down from number 1415, but in visual proximity from my car to the front door. Well, one of the front doors. The tiny white house, strangely, has two front doors, both sporting rickety overhangs, concrete steps, and green all-weather rugs on separate landings. It’s an eyesore, but it’s the eyesore we’re interested in.

Renzy picks up the notebook again and scribbles. When he’s finished, Morning, still beside him in the back seat, takes the pad from him and turns it so I can read what he has written.

Your Mommy and Daddy aren’t HERE, Ren-Ren. I am here.

My gaze meets my sister’s. For many years when we looked at each other directly, I felt a zing of connection that indicated we were seeing, very literally, eye to eye. And although this hasn’t happened in a long time, it happens now. I’m strangely gratified.

“How much do you remember of who said that, and of this house, Renzy?” I ask.

He lifts his hand and indicates the space of an inch with his finger and thumb.

“Not much, I guess. But do you remember more now that you’re actually here?”

He nods.

“What are you going to say at the door, assuming someone opens it?” Morning is not at ease with this.

“Simple.” I lean forward and pull my jeans out of the crack of my ass for the fiftieth time today and then open the car door. “I’m going to go with the direct approach.”

Without explaining the details, I get out of the car and head down the sidewalk toward the old house. The narrow, dirt walkway across the yard splits in two before it reaches the dilapidated house. Apparently, no one ever cared enough about the house, or the family living in it, to lay down some welcoming cobblestones.

I pull a couple of the letters out of my back pocket, as if they’re a weapon I can use to protect Renzy and me. After only a quick breath for courage, I knock on the door.

The face that I see when the door opens shocks me in a way I haven’t ever been shocked before. I see Renzy.

He’s older—more tired and worn out by life than my Renzy—and the look in his light green eyes indicates he’s deeply jaded. But he’s similarly built and darkly handsome, and undeniably attractive. This older version of Renzy, however, is not sweet and open and innocent. I can somehow tell that he has witnessed, as well as indulged in, many things forbidden. In fact this man’s resting bitch face is much like that of my former lover, Tomas. He is someone who does exactly what pleases him, right or wrong. He is as sly as he is deceitful. And he champions the easy way out—the dirt walkway leading to his home is sufficient evidence of that.

“Hello.” I wonder if Renzy’s speaking voice would sound like the raspy tenor of this man.

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