Home Fires by Luanne Rice

Author:Luanne Rice [Luanne Rice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780553901122
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2005-04-25T14:00:00+00:00

NED sped cross-island with no destination planned. In his mind, he replayed the last goal he'd made against Exeter. He saw it from the ice, he saw it from the stands, he saw it on national television with himself as commentator. His lips still sizzled from the Mouth-Burners, and he licked them, thinking of dinner.

Of his father and Anne.

Kids at school had stepmothers. That's the first thing he'd thought, the minute his father had admitted he had a girlfriend. Ned had steeled himself, prepared to meet anyone.

Mark's stepmother had turned Mark's bedroom into an office. Stephano's stepmother had brought her twelve-year-old son into the family and let him play with Stephano's Matchboxes, Tonka trucks, and remote-control speedboats. Jane's stepmother had enticed Jane's father to move to London, away from Jane in boarding school in Connecticut.

So, prepared to meet a typical stepmother type, Ned had been amazed by Anne.

Anne had seemed sweet, funny, easy to talk to. She liked hot food, and she'd made a good joke of it. She obviously liked Ned's father, and Ned had to admit, he thought she liked him, too.

So, why was he shaking? His entire body, every nerve under his skin. His teeth were chattering. Driving his father's truck, he tossed his head, to throw the coldness.

Why did his father have to meet Anne at a fire? He had had years of nightmares about flames, and he squinted, dispelling them now. He turned on the radio. The stations you could get out here were squat. He fiddled with the dial, trying to find something decent.

Why was his father able to save Anne, and not his mother? Just one of those things, Ned told himself.

He found WBRU, the Brown University FM station. An old Talking Heads song, a favorite of his parents, blared out of the speakers. He drove toward town, blocking his father, his mother, and Anne from his mind. He was on vacation. It was Tuesday night, and he didn't have to get up early the next day.

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