Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons

Author:Paullina Simons
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Saint Petersburg (Russia) - History - Siege, History, 1941-1944, Russians, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, War, Europe, Russians - New York (State) - New York, Love Stories, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Americans - Soviet Union, Historical, Soviet Union, Soviet Union - History - 1925-1953, Modern, General, Fantasy, New York, Americans, New York (State)
ISBN: 9780061987465
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Barrington, August 1944

“WHERE ARE WE GOING?” Vikki said. “And why? I don’t want to take the train to Massachusetts. I don’t want to go so far. What is it with you and these train trips? You just came back from Arizona, isn’t that enough? It’s raining, it’s miserable, and I worked a double shift yesterday and I work another double on Monday. Can’t I just stay home? Grammy is making her lasagna. I have to do my nails and iron my dress and my hair, and did you hear, women are shaving their legs and under-arms now. It’s all the rage. I was going to try. They told me that at Lady Be Beautiful, where by the way you promised me you were going to come with me. Why do we have to go anywhere? Couldn’t I just stay home and have a bath?”

“No. We have to go,” said Tatiana, pushing Anthony in the carriage, and pushing Vikki in the back.

“Why do I have to go with you?”

“Because I don’t want to go alone. Because my English is not so good. Because you my friend.”

Vikki sighed.

She sighed for five hours on the train, all the way to Boston. “Vikki, I counted. That was three sighs per mile. We went two hundred and forty miles. That’s seven hundred sighs.”

“That wasn’t sighing,” Vikki said petulantly. “That was breathing.”

“Exasperated breathing, yes.” She wished for her brother. Pasha would have gone with her and never uttered a word of misery, he would have just been stoic by her side. Her sister would have complained though, much like Vikki was doing. “I should’ve asked Edward,” Tatiana muttered, covering up Anthony. It was raining in Boston, too.

“Why didn’t you?”

“Can you not let me know every single thing you feeling at all times? I don’t want to know that you grouchy about doing me favor. Just do it, and stop complaining.”

Vikki stopped sighing.

The girls took a cab from Boston to Barrington since there were no local trains. The cabbie said, “That will be twenty dollars, going all that way.”

Vikki gasped, then yelped as Tatiana squeezed her thigh. “That will be fine,” Tatiana said to the cab driver.

“Twenty dollars? Are you crazy?” The girls settled into the back of the cab with Anthony on Tatiana’s lap, and the taxi screeched off. “It’s half a week’s pay for me. How much do you get paid?”

“Less than that. How you think we going to get there?”

“I don’t know. By bus?”

“Well, too far to walk to bus.”

“But it’s going to be twenty dollars more to get back.”

“Yes.”

“Can you tell me now what we’re doing?”

“We going to visit one of Anthony’s relatives.” She knew she shouldn’t do it, Sam had told her she shouldn’t, but she could not help herself. For some reason she felt it was going to be all right. Besides, she might soon need a favor from one of Anthony’s relatives.

“You have relatives in the United States?”

“I don’t. He does. I need you with me for support. If I need help, I will pinch arm really hard, like this.

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