The Blurry Years by Eleanor Kriseman

Author:Eleanor Kriseman [Kriseman, Eleanor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781937512712
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 2018-07-10T07:00:00+00:00

The day Jazz and I met Johnny I’d been putting off doing laundry until I ran out of everything, so she helped me carry a crusty pile of clothes that smelled of mildew and Hawaiian Tropic to the laundromat. With the extra quarters, we bought bubble gum from the machine outside and filled our mouths with large gobs that hurt to chew. Then we sat on the plastic chairs, sweaty and sticky, and blew bubbles as we watched the laundry turn. Jazz stood next to me while I folded, one pile of my mom’s clothes and another pile of mine.

We’d only been on the beach for a little while that afternoon when Jazz decided we should give up on tanning. The heat was damp and piercing; you felt as if you would fry if you stayed in the same position for too long. Instead, we walked ankle-deep along the shallows toward the Holiday Inn. There was a snack bar there on the beach, and when this one guy was working there, Jazz could usually get us something for free.

We were halfway down the beach when Jazz got bored. “I dare you to ask him for a beer,” she said, and tilted her head toward a potbellied man sitting on a faded towel next to a sweating cooler. I shook my head. “Fine then,” she said. “I’ll do it, if you’re gonna be a baby.”

“Hi sir,” Jazz said. The man looked up and slid off his sunglasses. She leaned over to him real slow, and whispered something in his ear. He scratched his head, then reached into the cooler and handed her a Miller Lite, flipping off the top with his lighter. Jazz smiled sweetly at him and darted back to me, flushed and giddy. “See how easy it is?” she said, as if she almost couldn’t believe it herself. She offered me a sip and even though I didn’t like beer, I took a swig.

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