Laughing Down the Moon by Indigo Eva

Author:Indigo, Eva [Indigo, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781594933882
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2013-12-16T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Girlie Points

“Clitoris!” I shrieked.

“Yes, clitoris.” Shiloh leaned back, crossed her arms over her chest and smiled. “And I’ll take an extra twenty points for that.”

“This isn’t fair,” I groaned. I recorded her points on the paper where she already had twice as many points as I did. We were playing Scrabble at her house on her Braille Scrabble board. She was beating the skirt off me.

“You were willing to play with girlie points, so it is fair.”

“Yeah, but how was I to know you were going to have a triple word score with ‘vulva’?”

“That was a good one, wasn’t it?” she gloated.

“Yeah, forty-five points good!” Even though my pride was buried somewhere under her letter tiles, just looking at her made me feel like I had won. The many-paned windows rattled around us as the wind blew. The weather presented a stark contrast to the warmth of Shiloh’s kitchen with its wonderful copper ceiling and red and orange brick walls. The wind was battling everything in its path, and it had started to sleet sometime during our game. I sat across the table from Shiloh.

She was here laughing with me, scoring extra points for every strictly feminine word, and it was amazing just to be in her presence. It was a busy way to play Scrabble—there was much more touching of the letters on the board than usual. I was in awe of her ability to memorize the board after feeling it. She was at no disadvantage, which was fortunate because she was quite competitive. I didn’t mind losing once in a while, and if I had to lose to anyone, I’d certainly choose to lose to Shiloh.

“Quit staring and make your word,” she said, smiling.

“Right.” I rearranged my letters on the table. I wasn’t confined to working in the tray since Shiloh wasn’t going to see my letters. G, H, O, I, R, A and Y. Not much to work with, and I was distracted to boot. “Okay, let’s see…” I said to let Shiloh know I’d stopped staring and was looking for a word. “Ohhh-kaaay.” I drew out the word and re-rearranged the tiles. Y, H, O, R, I, G and A. I looked at the board to see what letters were open. The tiny bumps on the tiles caught the light from the hanging Tiffany lamp above us.

“Shiloh, how long did it take you to learn to read Braille?”

“A couple of months I think.”

“That’s fast, isn’t it?” I asked. “I mean it’s like learning to read all over again. Doesn’t it take little kids longer than a couple of months to learn to read?”

“I don’t think it takes that long for little kids, and anyway, I was really desperate to do it. I started practicing before my vision was completely gone. I think that may have helped.”

“Why?”

“Why did it help?”

“Yeah.”

“I still have pictures in my head of the letter and how the dots look from when I first started learning. So I had the added benefit of seeing and feeling them before I had to rely on feeling alone.

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