The Junction of Sunshine and Lucky by Holly Schindler

Author:Holly Schindler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-02-06T06:00:00+00:00

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“I’ve been meaning to come by, anyway,” Chuck says, after I wound up helping him price the entire last table of clothes. “I’ve been meaning to, ah—”

“See what I did with your glass?” I finish.

“Yes—a little reinvention, I see,” he says as we stop in front of my house.

“Maybe more like a demotion,” I say.

“A demotion?” Chuck asks.

“Like when your boss gives you a job worse than the one you’ve already got because you’ve messed the first one up pretty bad.”

“You didn’t mess this up, Aug,” Chuck says. “You did a really nice job.”

“Yeah, but it used to be in a church, and now it’s on somebody’s old house.”

“Church is a house. God’s house,” Chuck argues.

I shrug my way into an agreement. If anybody’d know for sure, it’d be Chuck.

“Do you really think we did a good job, Chuck? You don’t think it’s ugly? You don’t think what we did is—wrong?”

He sighs. “I don’t remember ‘Thou shalt not paint thy house orange and green’ being the Eleventh Commandment.”

I laugh. “You know, you aren’t as uptight as most ministers,” I tell him. A glance at his shoes proves that much. “I guess we’ve done more than paint our shutters a funny color.” I nod once at the spinning wind chimes we made from the Monte Carlo. “All of a sudden,” I admit, “that letter from the House Beautification Committee makes me feel like working on the house was something really bad. Like I cheated on a test in school. Only, it still feels right, too.”

As I scrunch up my face, trying to make sense of it all, Chuck’s mouth stretches into a wide, proud smile. “That makes me remember your mom,” he says, “and the time we set out to change the world.”

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