Take Me Home by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Maggie

Maggie loved listening to Jack talk, and even more she loved hearing him talk about his past. He had lived almost twice as long as she had, and she wanted to hear all of his stories.

Even if that meant sitting in the bed of his pickup and parking in the middle of a cornfield so he could look at the stars while he spoke and not have to look at her face.

Whatever works, she told herself.

At least he had thought to bring a few pillows and a blanket for comfort, and a bottle of something with a little more kick in it than coffee. The windows in the cab were rolled down so they could listen to an old cassette tape of Neil Young, live in concert. Maggie had never understood this kind of music, but here in the cornfield, in the back of a truck, looking at the stars and sipping on whiskey, the smell of alfalfa and sweet corn wafting on the night breezes, it all made sense. Neil was singing Helpless.

She smiled. Weren’t we all?

“Wendy and I go way back. We grew up together in Mount Pleasant, a tiny little town just outside of Council Bluffs. We were best friends for as long as I could remember. We swam naked in the creeks together, way before we were old enough for it to be called skinny-dipping. We caught frogs, snakes, craw-dads, we built dams in the creeks, causing all kinds of problems for the neighboring farms’ irrigation. We used to get up to all kinds of trouble together. As teenagers, we took joyrides on other people’s horses and got in heaps of trouble for that. We never caused any real harm, but we were usually up to some kind of mischief together. We were real-life partners in crime. She was such a character. We were high school sweethearts; everybody assumed we would get married and take over her daddy’s little hog operation one day. She loved her little pigs. Just like Fern in Charlotte’s Web, you know?”

Maggie’s heart warmed at the reference. “Yeah, totally, one of my favorite books of all time.”

“She saved every damn runt that was ever born, bottle fed every one of them. She had a heart of gold as a kid. Her mom and dad let her run wild, barefoot and free all over her land. She took care of those animals and, in a way, they sort of took care of us. Anyway, we got engaged shortly after we graduated high school. It’s early, I know. It was 1990.”

Her stomach lurched up into her chest. She was born in 1994. Holy shit, he was old. But hot too. Damn silver fox. His face was so youthful and he had such an easy way about him, she never thought about his age until it smacked her in the face in moments like this.

She decided not to point out their difference in ages, as it was something for her to think seriously about at some point.

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