The Surfing Lesson by Elin Hilderbrand

Author:Elin Hilderbrand
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), General Fiction
ISBN: 9780316242868
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2013-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

Margot ran up Main Street to the monument, past the lovely historic homes on Milk Street. Hydrangea bushes, weathered fences, brick sidewalks, leafy trees. She was moving and she felt great, healthy, she loved being out of the city, she loved being on Nantucket. She had thought that maybe being on Nantucket would do the trick with her and Drum, maybe they needed a change of scenery. This was where they’d met, fallen in love, conceived their first child. Help me, Nantucket!

Margot hadn’t run in months, there was absolutely no time. She spent all her time at the office, and then when she got home, she wanted to be with her children. They had grown masterful at the guilt trip. We never see you, you’re never home, and when you’re home you’re always on your phone. We want you. We can’t stop wanting you. Margot was running hard, she was in the sun now, headed up the hill by the Maria Mitchell Observatory. She didn’t feel winded at all, because that was the kind of person she was, when she said she was going to do something, she did it and she did it well. She didn’t quit things. Was getting a divorce quitting? Her therapist said no, but Margot felt the answer was yes. Yes, getting a divorce was quitting, she should do what countless others before her had done and stay for the sake of the children, stay until Ellie graduated from Fieldston, only fifteen years from now. Could she stay for fifteen more years?

Nope, no way. She needed to follow her mother’s advice and allow for her imperfect moments. The past year and a half had been a study in imperfection. But now, maybe, Hadley Axelram could help. Help me, Hadley!

Margot was sweating buckets by the time she got to the dirt road that led to the antenna beach. This was the newly popular beach for serious surfers—Cisco had been overrun by college kids with cases of Budweiser. Margot saw their Land Rover parked at the beach entrance, and next to it, a turquoise blue Mini. Of course that would be what Hadley drove.

Margot stopped to stretch behind the cars. Some water would be nice; she was hot now and she still had to run all the way back. She surreptitiously opened the passenger door of the Land Rover, hoping that Drum had brought cold water—of course he had, he was a Boy Scout that way, always prepared—and she lifted it out of the console. Nice and cold.

She walked around the dune so that she could see the action on the beach without being seen herself. Drum was in the water waist deep and Curtis was on the board next to him. Hadley was standing at the shoreline, watching. She wore a long sheer white cover-up over her bathing suit. When a wave came in, Drum positioned Curtis’s board and yelled, “GO!” and Curtis paddled like crazy, then got into his crouch, then he stood. He stood! He rode the wave to shore, and Hadley cheered madly.

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