Stranded in Paradise by Lori Copeland

Author:Lori Copeland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 2010-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

Tess sucked in bitterly sharp air and huddled deeper into the lining of her thin coat as she followed Mona and Troy down the railroad tracks. Troy was only two years old.

Tess felt that funny sickness in the pit of her stomach again, the one she felt every weekend. I hate weekends. I wish there was no such thing as Friday and Saturday. That was when Roy would stay late at the bars and come home with that awful smell on his breath. Then Mona would start yelling. If she’d only learn to shut her mouth when Dad told her to, things would be better. He wouldn’t get so mad. He wouldn’t hit her with a trowel of plaster.

Flecks of white dotted the back of Mona’s print dress. Tess stared at the design as she walked. Today was Saturday. Saturday meant that he was drunk by noon; Saturday meant there would be no peace in the house until Sunday afternoon when he slept it off. Saturday meant they wouldn’t go home until late. It was cold, so cold. Tess hated that. She hated the walking and sitting on the railroad tracks wishing she was anybody else on earth but herself. She thought about all the kids in school who were sitting in warm homes with kind, smiling moms and dads.

They sat down on the cold tracks. She wondered if a train would come by. Maybe it will hit us and kill us, she thought. Then Mona and Troy and Dad will be sorry.

She wanted to go home, even if Mona and Dad did argue.She hated this feeling.

“I’m going to leave him when you kids get bigger,” Mona promised, glancing over at her.

She had heard that so many times that the promise didn’t touch her anymore—it didn’t make her happy or sad. It was just another promise from Mona, a promise not to be trusted.

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