Losing Brave by Bailee Madison

Author:Bailee Madison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blink
Published: 2018-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

1:30 p.m.

Eventually, Daddy admitted that he’d accepted the fact that Winnie was going to be a part of their lives, but made sure to add that he didn’t fully appreciate her, and he insisted that Poe park her in the alley beside the house.

“Poe,” he hollered as he ran an extension cord from the house to the RV. “Now, you’re more than welcome to use this to charge her up, but make sure she stays parked out of view from the funeral home parking lot. Or the driveway. Or the road.”

She stood back and eyeballed the side alley from all directions. “Well, Daddy, that leaves me about twenty feet of space.”

“Perfect.” He strolled back inside and left Poe to stake her parking spot with two orange cones spray-painted black so they wouldn’t look tacky.

Mama called that irony.

In the entire town, Poe knew there would only be one person who would appreciate Winnie’s beauty the way she did.

As she sounded the foghorn-like horn while pulling onto Brody’s property, she couldn’t wait for him to lay his eyes on her new pride and joy. Sure, it wasn’t like anything she’d ever loved before, but things had changed. She’d changed, and Winnie felt like the perfect addition to her new life.

Brody opened the large garage door and immediately laughed, just like she knew he would. Poe smiled and gave a proud thumbs up. He gave a thumbs up back, before he walked backward and guided her into the garage like he was directing a plane down the tarmac.

At a snail’s pace, Poe managed to maneuver Winnie inside and stop just a few inches from a row of oil drums, plastic tubs, and metal shelves that separated the service bay from his tool station.

“I like her,” he said with a smile, as she hopped out of the driver’s side door. “I like her a lot.”

“I knew you would. We’re the only two that do.”

“Only ’cause no one else has the great taste we do.”

Poe kept an occasional eye on him while he meticulously inspected the RV, but she took a moment to look around his immaculate body shop.

“You’ve cleaned the shop up a lot since the last time I saw it.”

“Yeah. My dad left it a mess. It took a while to get it all organized.”

Every tool neatly hung in its own spot. Screws and small items were stored in plastic tubs, and there wasn’t a speck of dirt on the floor.

She picked an automobile part up off his workbench and looked it over. “This looks sort of like a huge, mechanical heart pump. What is it?”

She felt him walk up behind her. “A carburetor.” He reached around her and gently removed it from her hands and placed it back with such care that you’d think it was a priceless museum piece.

“What’s it do?”

“It mixes the gasoline and air and makes sort of a combustible mixture . . . an energy, which is basically what runs your engine.”

She reached for it again.

“Dispatch . . .

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