John D by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub

At one o'clock on Thursday afternoon Ronnie sat behind the wheel of the gray Buick. Sally Leon sat beside him. They were parked two blocks from the Tomlin home, on the route to the downtown section. The angular patterns of the shade of palm fronds partially shielded the car from the high hot sun, but enough sun touched the metal to make the inside of the car uncomfortably hot. They had all the car windows rolled down. Their faces were damp with sweat. Ronnie's white shirt stuck to his back. The girl sat completely relaxed, her skirt hiked well above her knees, heavy thighs spread, her hair damp at her temples.

"So we sit here all afternoon," Ronnie said with muted savagery.

"It's pretty hot."

"It's pretty hot. It's pretty hot. It can cook you. Jesus, you have a lot of sparkling conversation."

"What do you want to talk about?"

"You, my darling. Your incredible beauty. Your elfin charm. Your gay little mannerisms."

"You talk funny."

"What's your vocabulary, sweets? Eight hundred words? You could use sign language and grunt once in a while and get along just fine. I would find you delightful in bed, but lambie, you are pretty sodden in the discussion department."

"Harry said for you not to make any passes."

"I must correct your grammar. Harry said for me not to make _no_ passes."

She stirred and said sullenly, "You're so damn smart."

"That's the tricky part. I am smart. They proved it to me. They gave me tests. They said, Ronald, you have a superior mind. We wish to help you, Ronald. We wish to make a good citizen out of you, Ronald. You can become a good citizen and have a wife and kiddies and spend all day in an office, and owe on the car and owe on the TV, and owe on the mortgage, and buy a lot of nice insurance so that when the ulcer gets you, or the heart or something, the kiddies can keep going to school and eventually your loving wife can go sit on her fat ass in the sun and improve hell out of her canasta."

"I'd like to have kids."

"Why don't you? Sows should be surrounded by the scampering piglets and watch them turn into shoats."

"You don't have to be so damn nasty."

"Ronald, they told me. We have given up. We cannot turn you into a good citizen, Ronald, because you refuse to cooperate. Something was left out of you, Ronald, when you were assembled. One dedicated young one called me a psychopath. One emotional old one told me I had no soul."

"You talk an awful lot."

"Darleeng, tonight we shall slip an Oriental drug into Harry's cambric tea. Then you come tippy-toe to my boudoir and we shall make the illicit luff."

"You shouldn't ought to talk like that."

He turned in the seat and took hold of her arm above the elbow. "Now we talk serious-like, angel."

"You're hurting me."

"What if something happened to the Ace, and something else happened to Mullin?"

"What do you mean?"

"These things can go sour.

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