Boys Like Kevin: A Coming of Age Novel by Ciccarello D.J

Author:Ciccarello, D.J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Give Her Credit

The first few months were lean for the young newlyweds as they began to furnish their new apartment. They started with a sectional sofa and some bedroom furniture purchased from a small furniture store in Bayview on a buy-here-pay-here credit plan. Kevin hated beginning the marriage in debt, but they needed some basics, and Dolores knew the store’s owner and happily arranged the purchases. She said it was common for young couples to start their life together with some debt, and the payment plan purchase was nothing unusual. Kevin went along with it, confident they would be okay financially as soon as Maritza made her final move from Bayview and found a job. While he was working at the job he hated in Ft. Lauderdale, Maritza was shopping for furniture in Bayview with her mother.

Kevin and Maritza traveled between their former and new cities a few times after the wedding and during the holidays. On their last trip for Christmas, he left Maritza in Bayview so she could withdraw from Jackson High and take her GED exam. Kevin planned to return to Bayview the following weekend to pick her up. That would be her final shuttle between the two cities, and after a very hectic couple of months, they looked forward to settling into their new apartment and new life together. When they last spoke over the phone, once again separated by the miles, Kevin told her how much he looked forward to seeing her in a few days. Maritza told him she had a surprise.

After returning home from work Thursday evening, Kevin rummaged through the nearly empty refrigerator and kitchen cabinets. He planned to return to Bayview the next day to pick Maritza up, and as he tried to decide what to eat for dinner, he heard a recognizable sound from the front of the room. It sounded like a key inserted into the deadbolt, followed by the turning of the lock. It was unexpected, and he stopped dead in his tracks. Kevin’s first thought was that a neighbor had gone to the wrong door and was trying to open his by mistake. It was a reasonable explanation. He had done that himself with cars resembling his own and parked in the vicinity where he remembered parking. Turning his head toward the sound and peering below the overhead cabinets separating the kitchen from the nearly bare living room, he wondered if the Canadian couple was using their owner’s key to enter his rental unit. He had paid the rent and signed the lease, so there was no reason for this unannounced intrusion. With that logic, Kevin’s thought shifted instead to intrusion. Was someone trying to break in, just as they had tried to break into his car in Ft. Lauderdale? His instinct was to grab a kitchen knife. Carol had given him one when she so considerately packed his first move-away-from-home-starter-kitchen care package a few months earlier. Where was the knife? Which drawer did I put it

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