The Fortunes Of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti

Author:Deb Caletti [Caletti, Deb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-20T18:09:24+00:00

"We got a lesson today," Neal says. He checks his watch. "Thirty minutes."

"I don't need lessons," Dean says. "I'm a soccer player."

Neal shrugs. He hauls the Windsurfer to the edge of the water. He's so strong, he looks like he's carrying an envelope. He trots back to us, leaves Dean to struggle with the Windsurfer as if he's suddenly been handed a squirming sumo wrestler. I can see his arm muscles quivering from the beach. He gets the sail upright at just the moment a wind gust comes, and he shoots out to sea. His wife has her hand up to her eyes, shading out the sun, watching Dean get smaller in the distance.

"Chump," Neal says. "He'll need the rescue boat, I guarantee it. Friggin' mainland athletes. Friggin' jocks."

Dad chuckles. We follow Neal to the shack. Keiko's already there, getting a drink from her work bowl.

"That guy signed all the waivers, right?" Neal says.

"Yesiree," one of the guys behind the counter says. He taps the clipboard with his knuckles. "Hey, boss."

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"Zach," Dad says. He uses the guy's name instead of a hello. "This is my daughter Indigo. And Eric, over there."

"Hey," Eric says. He's drinking from a bottle of Koala, a mixed-continent metaphor, and is peeling the label with his fingernails. New guy.

"Hi," I say.

"Great name," Zach says. "Indigo, not Eric." He chuckles at himself.

"Credit her brilliant father," Dad says. "Thoreau. 'The night is a different season....

Sweet-fern and indigo weed in overgrown wood-paths...."'

"Etcetera, etcetera," Neal says.

"I was named after a weed? That explains a lot," I say.

"A beautiful weed," Dad says. "I never told you?"

I shake my head. "I just thought you had a thing for different names. Maybe you liked blue."

He throws his hands up in a What're-you-going-to-do-with-a-father-like-me gesture.

"Now you know it was Thoreau's fault. So, we're going to go eat. Onion rings."

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