Storm Runners by Parker T Jefferson

Author:Parker, T Jefferson [Parker, T Jefferson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-02-09T16:45:58+00:00

“I won’t let anything happen to you, Frankie.”

She looked at him and Stromsoe had no idea what she was thinking. His own mind was a swirl of hope, fear, and contradic-tion. How many times had he told Hallie and Billy that, in his heart if not with words?

“Dance?” he asked.

“By all means.”

The song was an old Dire Straits piece, “So Far Away,” and Stromsoe led Frankie in a happy little fox-trot that dismissed the melancholy of the lyrics. At first he was self-conscious about his three-fingered lead, trying to use mostly palm, to keep his touch light but informative. He felt her little finger resting comfortably where his had been.

He wished again that she saw him for what he was and was not and wondered if this was a sign that she would be able to. They danced around the table and into the living room, where the floor was cut small by the boxes he’d yet to unpack.

“I think I just bumped into your past,” she whispered.

“I believe you did.”

“Can I see some pictures?”

“Sure. When?”

“Now. After the song, I mean.”

THEY SAT ON the couch and he showed her his Santa Ana High School yearbook for his senior year, replete with pictures of himself and Hallie and Mike.

He hadn’t looked at these things in years and to see himself posed before the marching band, mace held high and shako hat worn low, was to see a child living his desires free of self-consciousness and history.

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