What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright
Author:Tom Wright [Wright, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780857862808
Publisher: Canongate Books
5 | Telling
GRAM COMING HOME with tears in her eyes was trouble any way you cut it. It seemed to me the more trips she made downtown to see Mrs. Bruhn, the more dog-miserable each one made her, but this was way worse than usual. She cried about as often as L.A. did, in other words next to never, which made it clear we now had an out-and-out situation on our hands.
“What’s wrong, Gram?” asked L.A.
“Come into the living room, both of you. I’ve got some things to tell you. Your mothers will be here in a few minutes.”
Now I knew we were in it up to our hocks. L.A. was no easy scare, but her expression told me she was thinking along the same lines. Which for me confirmed the worst: the women were now spooked, which removed my option to be afraid. As the only male on the scene, I had to think of something useful to do or say.
“I’ll get you some tea,” I said firmly to Gram, heading for the refrigerator.
Gram said, “I know we’ve always talked about both of you going back to your homes someday, but I’m afraid that’s all changed now. It looks as if you two vagabonds are mine for good.”
Hearing it said right out loud this way stopped me in my tracks, but L.A. reacted differently. She looked at Gram with a little frown line between her eyes, an almost visible question mark forming in the air above her head, not troubled or anything, just waiting for the punch line. And that was when it dawned on me for the first time that for L.A. the possibility of leaving Gram’s had never been on the table. And I guess now that it came down to cases, something inside me had probably understood for a long time that I wasn’t going anywhere either. I was past answering to anybody but Gram for my uncombed hair and unfinished homework.
“Okay, Gram,” we both said.
She looked at us and wiped the tears from her eyes. After a minute she said, “Well, now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?”
“No ma’am.”
Gram blew her nose in a tissue and motioned us into the front room, where we assumed our bad-news positions on the couch. She took the green chair.
“All right, then,” she said. “What I’ll start with is that I’ve made a decision about some things, and about the two of you, that Mrs. Bruhn has urged on me. And I agree with her—both of you have seen and heard more, been through more, than most adults . . .” She looked hard at L.A. “I believe you are strong enough for this.” She took a deep breath and let it out. “A better question would be, am I?”
She stood and walked across the room and into the hall, and a second later we heard her bedroom door open. After a minute or so she came back holding a letter that was old and yellowed, with creases from folding that were worn through in a couple of places.
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