The Woman Who Tried To Be Normal by Anna Ferrara

Author:Anna Ferrara [Ferrara, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alcoholic, Aliens, area 51, autism, California, clues, dating, exciting, Family & Relationships, Fiction, Gay, genius, Germany, girl, girls, hidden, housewife, jew, kiss, lesbian, love, Love & Romance, mixed, mutant, Mystery, nazi, Northridge, paranormal, powers, psychiatric hospital, romance, romantic, secrets, Sex, Small Town, solve, superhero, Suspense, usa, Valium, witch, woman, Women
Publisher: Anna Ferrara Books
Published: 2018-09-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

16 July 1975, Wednesday

The Jaegers took us to a local family restaurant famous for its giganormous portions of fresh seafood. It wasn’t located within a building but on the outskirts of the beach, over a patch of flat, rocky sand and simply put together under a flimsy-looking wood and palm roof. The kitchen was in the rear, separated by a row of chair-less tables on which mismatched cutlery, plates and uncooked vegetables were laid out, open for all to see. The dining area was out front, filled with portable tables and chairs that had only locals on them. We were the only gringos in the house, and the only ones not fighting to have our voices heard.

The place was loud. Very loud and… excessively colourful. A roving mariachi band was screaming their music from all corners, locals were screaming conversations, waiters were screaming orders and the thick smell of grilled food in the air, mixed with the scents of sea, sand, plants and soil made it very difficult for me to taste my own feelings. I had a bad feeling all that noise would end up as an opaque wall of sound in front of me the way it always did in shopping malls, and I was right…

Within seconds of simply standing at the entrance, all the colourful shapes and patterns in the atmosphere combined to form a cylinder of sound around my eyes. I tried my best to focus on my thoughts—I tried to think of Ethel and apples and the lovely day we had—but it was extremely hard to avoid noticing the sound when I was feeling so self-conscious.

Weslyn was right there. Centimetres away. I could imagine what would happen if I ended up blind because of sound right in front of her eyes and I didn’t like how that very thought made me feel at all.

Lucky for me, Baker wanted a quiet night himself. He picked out a table at the very edge of the restaurant where it was comparatively quiet and got us seated there. Thanks to him, the sound cylinder in front of my eyes became more translucent than opaque and I was generally able to continue being able to see despite the noise being there. Because of that, I really appreciated his presence that day.

Our table was rectangular and just enough for six people, which was exactly what we were. The men sat on one side, facing the inside of the restaurant, with Rolf in the middle, while the women sat on the other, opposite their partners, facing the view of the beach. Weslyn ended up between Ethel and I because of Rolf’s choice of seat but neither of us minded.

Stealing glances at each other had become just about the last thing on our minds. She had been giving us dirty looks on the walk over, with that observant unsmiling manner she seemed to always use to take in the world, and neither of us wanted to provoke her further.

Thankfully though, once our

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