The Bones of Summer by Anne Brooke

Author:Anne Brooke [Brooke, Anne]
Language: deu
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-04-16T09:40:24+00:00

other people or from the atmosphere in the house he grew up in.

Something edgy, strange, that didn’t quite fit. Though of course most of that could simply be the religious obsession his father had had, and the way Craig had never felt comfortable with it.

“You get a feeling of déjà vu?” Paul finished the sentence as he leaned back in his chair and gazed at Craig. He was beginning to learn that was a habit with Paul.

Craig shook his head. “Not quite, but near that. Sometimes I think I remember things but they don’t make sense. When I’m waking up or dozing off, I’ll get some kind of flashback in my head, but it’s so jumbled that I can’t work out whether whatever it is happened once, in the past, or if it’s a mixture of memories. Or even if they’re memories at all. It might be things other people have said. My own imagination even. I don’t know. Of course that might be nothing at all to do with my father’s double life. Who can tell? But it pisses me off, you know.

All that bloody religion forced down my throat ever since I can remember, and all the time he’s… well, he’s doing God knows what.”

Finding the need to swallow, he stopped. He’d never told anyone that much before, not even Maddy. He hadn’t thought he’d been going to say it at all but he had. For a moment, the whitewashed walls around him with their modern prints vanished away and he was alone, in a world of his own making.

A subtle pressure on his hand brought him back. Paul’s fingers on his. Craig blinked at him. He thought it might be the first time his boyfriend had touched him since his “confession.” It felt good.

“It’s okay,” Paul said, leaning forward so the scent of his aftershave drifted over Craig. “We can’t change our parents, though God knows at times we all wish we could. It’s not your fault. And as for the memory blanks, sometimes things happen. When we’re young.

Difficult stuff. And we remember it in different ways. It’s normal. Part of life.”

Taking courage, Craig turned over Paul’s hand where it lay under his, felt the warmth of Paul’s flesh on his palm. He wanted to kiss him, but was afraid to, here, in the restaurant. The last thing he wanted to do was embarrass his boyfriend, especially with things being tricky right now, or get them chucked out. Lord only knew what the sexual equality The Bones of Summer 123

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