Golden by Andrea Dickherber

Author:Andrea Dickherber [Dickherber, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

That night at the Goldens, I couldn’t sleep. I crept out of Rudy’s room and down the long, dark staircase toward the trophy room, where I sat with my back up against the wall and my legs outstretched, my hamstrings and calves pressed against the cold floor. There were sconces at either end of the hallway that were always left on, and their light made the picture frames cast shadows across one another so that parts of all of the photographs were shaded and grotesque-looking. It was cold and I had a stomachache. I wrapped my arms around my body.

There were three new photos on the wall – new since the first time I had been in the trophy room. One was of Marta; a photograph of her sitting behind a desk in her small office at a New York nonprofit organization. It was a clipping from a newspaper story about young world-changers; they picked fifty of the top young professionals in New York City and they had written a whole paragraph for Marta. Mrs. Golden had gushed for a month.

The second was of Kent studying abroad in Portugal the spring before. Rudy had gone to visit him with her parents, even though that meant she’d had to miss the first day of our final exams (Ogden, of course, allowed her to make it up and she got an A). In the picture, Kent was smiling and handsome as ever, but I no longer felt the same stirring when I thought about him. He was preparing for his final year of undergrad and was applying to law school at the University of Missouri. He would be only two and a half hours from home, but he was eons away.

Finally, there was a small photo of Rudy, cheesing in her cross-country uniform, holding a fifth place medal out in front of her body. She had just finished running, and her cheeks were red. Her hair fluffed away from the sides of her head. The picture was from our conference meet, where I had won the second place medal, and I had a copy of the same photo on my bulletin board at home, a copy where I hadn’t been cropped out.

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