LaHaye, Tim - Left Behind 02 - The Regime by LaHaye Tim

Author:LaHaye, Tim [LaHaye, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian, Fiction, Religious, General, Futuristic
ISBN: 9781414305776
Google: sB5mAAAAMAAJ
Amazon: 141430577X
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2005-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

WITH RELATIVES IN from all over the Southwest for the funeral, Cameron found himself having to face them all the day before. One by one and in groups and families they descended upon his childhood home.

He had never felt so much like a foreigner. Cameron had no i.e. whether his imagination was in overdrive or if he was really able to read everyone’s thoughts by their expressions, tones, mannerisms, and body language.

An aunt seemed to assume that he was so grateful to be home and away from the strange and exotic East Coast that he might even consider transferring to the University of Arizona. “They have a writing program, don’t they?”

“A journalism course? Oh, I’m sure. But I’ve just a few months until graduation at Princeton, and then …”

“Yes, I heard about the position at the big paper. The Boston Sun or some such.”

“The Globe.”

“Um-hm. And you have to wonder if those Boston Brahmans have ever even heard of Tucson.”

“Believe me they have. And I’ll try to represent us well there.”

Others were so overly sympathetic that Cameron read in them a belief that he felt terribly guilty for having been unable to see his mother before she died. An elderly cousin clucked that he must forgive himself. “I know you would have been here if you could,” she said.

Still others were plain in their judgment of him. An uncle quizzed him about how it came to be that he was late. “And you couldn’t borrow some money, get an emergency fare, prevail on a friend to get you out here somehow?”

“I did everything I could, sir. And as it was, I just missed seeing her.”

“Didn’t you know how bad off she was?”

“Dad and Jeff tried to tell me, but maybe I just didn’t want to accept it.”

“Well, you should have been here.”

“Were you here?” Cameron said. “Did you see her?”

“Well … ah … no, no. But we knew it was going to be soon. Anyway, Cammy, she’s your mother.”

Yeah, I got that.

Cameron was impressed with his father and worried about him at the same time. His parents had not had the best of marriages, but they had gotten along and spent nearly thirty years together. He’d seen the pictures of them in their courting days, when both were young and thin and obviously putting their best feet forward. They also looked dreamily in love in some pictures, something he couldn’t remember seeing in person. They were not physically or verbally affectionate, but they were nice enough to each other.

Cameron was sure his dad would be panicky and feel lost without her for a while. But he was being the consummate host, thanking every person individually for coming and saying just the right things. He was fine, he said. It was hard, though he had known it was coming. He felt a little numb, had done his crying in private and was sure more was to come. But for now he wanted to remember her the way she was before the cancer overtook her.

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