V.C. Andrews - Hudson 04 by The End of the Rainbow

Author:The End of the Rainbow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-17T01:00:35+00:00

Epilogue

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I suppose all my life I've been afraid of promises. A promise is a way of exposing your heart, whether you're the one giving it or the one accepting it. "Let's not make any promises and we'll never be disappointed in each other." That's what I told the boys I dated.

Harley and I kept up our correspondence and our relationship while I attended and finished high school. My grandfather in England wanted me to attend college in London. Mommy. Daddy and I talked about it at length. and Mommy told me about all her wonderful experiences there when she had studied at the school of drama.

It did sound exciting and my grandfather Larry was so anxious for me to come and live with him.

"Even if it's only for a year or two." Mommy told me. "it's a worthwhile experience for you.

Summer."

I knew how hard it would be for her to be so far away from me. so I knew she meant every word. She wanted the good things for me. She wanted me to taste what I had never tasted, see what I had never seen, hear what I had never heard. Experience, wide and wonderful, was so very important.

Maybe it was because her opportunities had been cut off so early in her life. Maybe she wanted to live them through me.

Whatever her reasons, she was very convincing and in the end. I decided to do it.

Harley was a junior in college, already deep in his major. We corresponded while I was away, of course, but suddenly, his letters stopped coming. I thought he had found someone else. I wrote him a few times and then I stopped. too.

We drifted apart and when we saw each other the following summer, we were both embarrassed by it, fumbling for excuses. Toward the end of my school year. I did meet a very nice young man from London.

His father was a member of Parliament and because of that. I got to see many royal events I would never have experienced.

However, our relationship thinned when I left to spend the summer at home. He met someone new and was practically engaged the next time I saw him. I didn't feel bad. I felt it was meant to be. No promises.

No heartbreaks. No tears.

I was able to return early enough the following year to go with everyone to Harley's college graduation. He had done very well and won some awards in architecture. The result was he landed a job with a prestigious firm in Richmond. He seemed to have grown taller, firmer, far more mature. Uncle Roy was very proud, and they were truly like father and son. We were all proud.

Late July of that year. Mommy became very sick with another one of her infections. She nearly died. It seemed to age Daddy. It drove home in more dramatic and vivid terms just how fragile she had become and how easily Death could come sauntering by and pluck her out of our home. If he was a nervous Nelly before.

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