This Is Not Chick Lit by Elizabeth Merrick

Author:Elizabeth Merrick [Merrick, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781588365699
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2006-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Wayne is listening in the van. He has a timetable, a plan for this criminal scumbag. He’ll let Ted go all the way. Wayne wants Ted to know just how good a machine can feel inside. She feels good. Wayne can attest to just how good she feels. He’d volunteered to run Authenticity and Quality Control on her. R&D. Plus there’d been other times. Special moments. Yes, she feels good.

The sun has set and under the darkening sky Wayne dares to pull the van up closer to the cabin to get a better look. He watches through the windshield while inside they turn on a light. A golden glow creeps out through the one high window. Yellow light can make the coldest of homes look like a palace to someone waiting outside in a cold van, his Thermos of coffee having long ago expired. The sky slips from royal to navy blue. The black branches look like a secret army lying in wait, like bayonets raised up to the sky. Very quietly Wayne opens the door to the van and steps out into the dark.

Wayne remembers a Robert Frost poem he’d had to memorize in grade school, two roads diverge in a yellow wood. Yellow wood? Maybe yellow’s not the right word. Yellow seems odd for a wood. He can’t be sure now, but he’d liked the poem. He’d selected the poem to be his high school senior quote in the yearbook. And so he is surprised to find that here in Montana, years and years later, two roads are diverging. Not actual roads, but something more like poetic roads: one that says, “Turn the key, Wayne,” and the other that asks, “Have you ever been in love?” Wayne squeezes at the swatch of skin he keeps in his pocket to answer yes.

Wayne creeps up to the cabin. He can hear movement inside, and voices, friendly voices, spots of giggling. He presses his ear directly up to the cold, rough siding as though he were a doctor listening through a stethoscope for traces of lung disease or heart irregularities. She’d enabled her debating software. Jealousy wells up in him. He holds his breath.

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