Summer of Dreams: A From This Moment Novella by Elizabeth Camden

Author:Elizabeth Camden [Camden, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: FIC042030, FIC027050, FIC042040
ISBN: 9781441269836
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

As Clyde started tutoring Romulus, there was little for Evelyn to do other than tidy the room, but soon enough it became a genuine team effort. She ran to the grocer’s shop a block from campus for some sandwiches and a jug of tea, as it appeared Romulus had not had a decent meal in weeks. While Clyde went over the principles of how to calculate distance equations, she wrote out study questions from a trigonometry book. It seemed as soon as she had them copied, Clyde was sliding them before Romulus, who attacked them with growing confidence.

It was a little embarrassing when she ventured outside the dormitory room. It was impossible to blend in when she was the sole woman in a building of two hundred men, but after some initial awkwardness, everyone was quite decent to her. Romulus was a popular man on campus, and his fellow students did their best to help however possible. They brought hot coffee and extra blankets and pillows. One of them even dragged in a pallet, for Evelyn, Clyde, and Romulus would be sharing this tiny space for the next few days.

They worked well into the night. The moon rose, and they lit a lantern, and eventually there was nothing else for Evelyn to do but curl up on the corner of the rumpled bed and listen to Clyde’s patient voice coaxing Romulus through the problems. The window was open, and she could hear shouts of male laughter and carousing from the courtyard below.

A sense of well-being flooded her as she realized that this was her first night of college. She wasn’t enrolled, and her time here would amount to no more than a few days, but for this snippet of time, she shared in the comradery and pursuit of knowledge here on campus.

Romulus insisted she take his bed, while he and Clyde stretched out on the pallet, but she was still stiff and cramped by morning, and she knew she needed to get another telegram to Aunt Bess. She’d sent a message to her aunt yesterday, alerting her of an urgent need to see Romulus but assuring her aunt she would return soon. That wouldn’t be the case now, and she composed a carefully worded telegram to explain that circumstances would prohibit her return until Wednesday evening.

Romulus was still asleep, and she tried to be silent as she straightened her blouse and smoothed it back into her skirt. Clyde was awake, swigging from a carafe of cold coffee. She couldn’t help but smile at the way he didn’t even wince as he swallowed what surely must be a truly awful mouthful of coffee. He’d probably endured far worse during his training at West Point, but she loved the way he never complained. He simply rolled up his sleeves and tackled the chore at hand with good humor.

She’d bring him back a nice, steaming pot of coffee after she sent Aunt Bess the telegram. She was about to leave the room when a terrible thought struck.

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