Forever... by Judy Blume

Author:Judy Blume
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
ISBN: 9780385734073
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007-03-27T10:00:00+00:00

think this is enough for one night,” he said, but when Darci stil didn’t react, he did what instinct told him to: He pul ed her into his arms and held her, her face buried against his shoulder.

“A shock, huh?” he asked softly.

She nodded against him.

“You’ve had a lifetime with one real y bad parent, and—” She started to lift her head at that, but he held her down until she calmed. “Yes, one real y

bad, absent parent, and now you find that, al along, you’ve had a second parent.”

Pul ing back, he turned her head so she could look at him, putting his fingertips under her chin. “You’re not going to chicken out on me now, are

you?” he asked. “We’re going to contact him, aren’t we?”

“He might not like me,” Darci said in a tiny voice.

At that Adam smiled. “Not like you?!” he said. “How could he not like you? You’re smart, something you obviously inherited from him; you have

such a great sense of humor that you can make even an old stick-in-the-mud like me laugh, and you’re frugal to the point of….Wel , anyway, you make

people like you. You make friends with everyone everywhere and— Stop looking at me like that!” he said, then dropped his hand from her face and got up

off the couch. “I told you that you were not al owed to use your power against me. No kissing thoughts!”

“I wasn’t using any power!” Darci said. “I was merely wishing very, very hard, that’s al . And why not? I thought you liked me. You were saying wonderful things about me.”

For a moment Adam turned away from her, then he looked back at her, and when he spoke, his voice was calm. “You’re lovely. I didn’t think so at

first, but— Please stop looking at me like that. I’m trying to be honest. You are a wonderful person. I’ve never before met anyone like you. I’ve bummed around the world, and never have I met anyone with your …your enthusiasm for life. The truth is that I like you more than …wel , more than I should.”

Suddenly, he stopped talking. “Actual y, I think we’d better talk about this another time.”

“Are you blushing again?” Darci asked, eyes wide.

“No, of course not. Men don’t blush. Let’s go to bed,” he said, annoyed.

“Oooooohhh, yes,” Darci purred.

Adam laughed. “Get up and go put your pajamas on. And put on those big ones, not that little black thing you bought, but the big ones, got it? And

behave yourself!”

Smiling, Darci got off the couch and went into the bedroom. The bedroom they shared, she thought. As she was in the bathroom getting ready for

bed, she decided that it was better to keep her mind on Adam than on the news that she’d just found her father. A father was not something that Darci

could comprehend. In school in Putnam the other kids had often taunted her by saying that any man in Kentucky could be her father. Darci had held her

head high and True Persuaded the kids to go away.

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