The Sugar Maple Chronicles Collection by Barbara Bretton

Author:Barbara Bretton [Bretton, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Free Spirit Press
Published: 2017-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHLOE

Ask any knitter and he or she will tell you that the only thing better than TV knitting is road trip knitting. I turned the car keys over to Luke again and, pushing aside an explosion of Dream in Color Smooshy, claimed the passenger seat. The circumstances could have been a whole lot better but I have to admit the prospect of a few hours of mindless knit-and-purl made me very happy.

Janice managed to squish herself into the backseat amid the baskets and bags of roving and rolags and fleeces and a very clingy Penny the cat and was three rounds into a Wendy Knits toe-up lace sock by the time Luke angled the Buick out of the Walmart parking lot.

I let myself sink into my default pattern for a three-one rib cuff-down sock. I was using a skein of Noro Kureyon Sock in gorgeous saturated shades of royal blue and purple splashed with hot pink and an understated forest green and as always the chaos in my mind stilled as I anticipated the color transitions and savored the way the yarn felt as it moved through my fingers.

Nobody said a word as we drove toward the highway and left the snow behind. I guess we were all wondering when (and maybe if) we would return. I would have Kitchener-stitched my lips together rather than admit it but I was scared. This was the only world I knew. Except for my painfully brief time at Boston University when I was eighteen, I had spent my entire life in Sugar Maple and now it was gone.

I was so far outside my comfort zone that it was downright laughable. The more miles we put between Sugar Maple and us, the less confident I felt that we would return.

What if we never came back?

I glanced toward Luke. He had a life waiting for him in the human world. A phone call or two and he would have a new job in a new town and a new future to consider. He would be back where he belonged, with mortals who went to work every day, who fell in and out of love, who married and had children, who worried about their 401(k)s and whether or not their flu shots were up-to-date. Before long his months in Sugar Maple would seem like a story that happened to someone else.

I knew he loved me. I knew he would want me to share his life. A year ago I might have been able to make it work. But now that I had magick, I wasn’t so sure.

And Janice--I couldn’t bring myself to think about what she was going through.

Luke asked if we minded if he tuned into one of the sports talk radio stations. Janice and I lied and said no. We needed our knitting. He needed his Red Sox. We’d cope. He fiddled with the dial but instead of baseball talk, he got nothing but static.

“Your radio sucks,” Luke said. “You might want to invest in an antenna.

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