Bad Behavior (1995) Anthology by Mary Higgins Clark (ed)
Author:Mary Higgins Clark (ed) [Clark, Mary Higgins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
The Green Killer
M. E. KERR
âBe nice to him,â my father said. âHeâs your cousin, after all.â
âHe takes my things.â
âDonât be silly, Alan. What of yours could Blaze possibly want? He has everything. . .everything,â my father added with a slight tone of disdain, for we all knew how spoiled my cousin was.
But he did take my things. Not things he wanted because he needed them, but little things like a seashell Iâd saved and polished, an Indian head nickel Iâd found, a lucky stone shaped like a star. Every time he came from New York City with his family for a visit, some little thing of mine was missing after they left.
We were expecting them for Thanksgiving that year. It was our turn to do the holiday dinner with all our relatives. Everyone would be crowded into our dining room with extra card tables brought up from the cellar, and all sorts of things borrowed from the next-door neighbors: folding chairs, extra serving platters, one of those giant coffee pots that could serve twenty. . .on and on.
It was better when it was their turn and everyone trooped into New York for a gala feast in their Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking Central Park. They had a doorman to welcome us, a cook to make the turkey dinner, maids to serve us.
Blazeâs father was the CEO of Dunn Industry. My father was the principal of Middle Grove High School on Long Island. About the only thing the two brothers had in common was a son apiece: brilliant, dazzling Blaze Dunn, seventeen; and yours truly, Alan Dunn, sixteen, average.
But that was a Thanksgiving no one in the family would ever get to enjoy or forget. An accident on the Long Island Expressway caused the cherry black Mercedes to overturn, and my cousin Blaze was killed instantly.
I had mixed emotions the day months later when I was invited into New York to take what I wanted of Blazeâs things.
Did I want to wear those cashmere sweaters and wool jackets and pants Iâd always envied, with their Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein labels? The shoesâeven the shoes fit me, British-made Brooks Brothers Churchâs. Suits from Paul Stuart. Even the torn jeans and salty denim jackets had a hyperelegant âpreppyâ tone.
Yes!
Yes, I wanted to have them! It would make up for all the times my stomach had turned over with envy when he walked into a room, and the niggling awareness always there that my cousin flaunted his riches before me with glee. And all the restâhis good looks (Blaze was almost beautiful with his tanned perfect face, long eyelashes, green eyes, shiny black hair); and of course he was a straight-A student. He was at ease in any social situation. More than at ease. He was an entertainer, a teller of stories, a boy who could make you listen and laugh. Golden. He was a golden boy. My own mother admitted it. Special, unique, a winnerâall of those things Iâd heard said about Blaze. Even the name, never mind it was his motherâs maiden name.
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