Blue Marlin by Lee Smith

Author:Lee Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blair
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

BY THE TIME Daddy appeared to retrieve me, Christmas had come and gone and I had repented of my behavior in the Bomb Shelter and was being totally good again, or as good as possible, newly aware of my potential for backsliding. Harlan Boyd never spoke to me again. He dropped out of Tri-Hi-Y and wouldn’t even look at me in math class, where he got a D-minus for the semester.

It was over. I knew he still loved me, though, with a hopeless love, the kind of love my uncle Mason had felt for his wife, a love so strong it had caused him to go out and cut somebody. I didn’t think Harlan would do that, though I sort of wished he would. But he was too nice. Also, he had basketball practice every day after school, so he was very busy. Anyway, I would be far, far away soon, in Key West, Florida, where Mama and Daddy were going to “patch up their marriage”: a geographical cure prescribed by Mama’s doctors.

But I hated to leave Repass. This astonished Mama and Daddy, who looked puzzled as they stood waiting while I sobbed, hugging first Rayette and then cousin Glenda. Raymond stood like a tree by the door. “Now come on, Jennifer.” Cousin Glenda finally disentangled herself from my frantic arms. “What did I tell you?”

I had to smile.

Rayette smiled.

“Get a grip,” we all said together, and I started laughing in spite of my tears.

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