Silver Threads by Lyn Denison

Author:Lyn Denison [Denison, Lyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ! Yes
ISBN: 9781562802318
Publisher: Naiad Press
Published: 1999-03-15T05:00:00+00:00

After Paul had won custody of their son, Crys had thought she'd lose her sanity. She sank deeper and deeper into a gray depression, one she had to drag herself out of for David's weekly visits.

Diane was pressuring Crys to move in with her and Crys knew how Paul would react if he found out she was living with Diane. Crys felt Paul was pulling her one way and Diane was pulling her another. And David was the vulnerable child caught right in the middle.

Crys knew she owed Diane some support as she'd just lost her teaching job, but Crys's contact with her son had been at stake. She'd needed Diane to understand that. The result was that Crys's relationship with Diane had been wavering on very shaky ground. It had all been so harrowing.

And in the middle of it had been Mel, who had suddenly become transformed from a gangling child into a very attractive, though very young, woman. Crys had to continually remind herself that Mel was, in all essence, still an uncertain teenager, one who was perhaps a little less worldly than other young women her age.

Mel continued to confide in Crys just as she'd always done and, in the midst of her own anxiety, Crys had tried to remain constantly available to the young girl. Mel was always at loggerheads with her mother, and Crys continued to be the go-between, the mediator.

When Mel admitted she didn't want to go to the high school formal dance, which was something of a tradition in the final year of secondary school, Angela had been disbelieving and then frankly impatient with her younger daughter. Angela couldn't understand how Mel was so different from her older sister. Amber had shone at her own formal dance.

Crys had always known that when it came to her two daughters, Angela's usual astuteness and practical common sense went completely out the window. Angela could not comprehend that Mel and Amber were totally different personalities and that while Amber was a carbon copy of her mother, Mel was just the opposite.

So when Mel continued to insist she didn't want to attend the dance, Crys had tactfully intervened on Mel's behalf, diplomatically trying to make Angela understand that Mel might not be ready for the social interaction of adolescence.

That was ridiculous, Angela had retorted. Of course Mel would go to the dance. And she'd remained adamant, until eventually Mel had caved in under the pressure and gone to the dance with the nice-looking boy who lived around the corner.

Mel hadn't said much about the dance itself, but a week later she'd gone to the movies with the same young man. Angela had airily said to Crys, I told you so.

One afternoon after school, not long after Mel started dating Gary, Mel had stopped by to chat with Crys as she usually did. That particular afternoon Crys could tell that Mel was obviously concerned about something and wanted to talk about it. They'd sat down at the dining room table, and Crys had handed Mel a cold soft drink while Crys poured herself a cup of coffee.

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