They Never Came Home by Lois Duncan

Author:Lois Duncan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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ISBN: 9781453263402
Publisher: Open Road
Published: 2012-07-26T04:42:00+00:00

TEN

“PEGGY! PEGGY, DAVE’S HERE!” Mrs. Richards’ voice floated up from the downstairs hallway.

“I’ll be down in just a minute, Mom! Tell him to wait!”

In the little room at the end of the hall, Peggy Richards glanced frantically around for her mascara.

Sprawled on one of the twin beds in the room they shared, her fourteen-year-old sister Sarah regarded her with amusement.

“Tell him to wait? You know he’s going to wait with the twins down there. They’ll be attached to him like weights, one on each knee, and Ginger’s probably piggyback on his shoulders.”

“If that’s so,” Peggy said wryly, “I’ll never be able to pry him out of the living room. Those kids act like he’s heaven’s gift to the Richards family.”

“I know somebody else who acts the same way,” Sarah said teasingly.

“Don’t be so silly.”

“When you get up at six o’clock on Sunday morning to wash your hair and do your makeup before going to the beach, I’d say that was a sign of something.”

Peggy shot her sister an irritated glance and sighed in relief as she located her bag of cosmetics. The frustrating thing was that Sarah, as usual, was right. It was ridiculous to take pains with your hair and makeup when your date was to go swimming. Still, she desperately wanted Dave to think she was pretty.

You’re an idiot, Peg Richards, she told herself helplessly, letting a boy you hardly know turn you inside out like this. True, you’re not exactly a glamor girl, but with classes starting at the college in a couple of weeks, you’ll be meeting plenty of cool guys. There will be proms and football games and fraternity parties, and you’ll get asked to them, just the way you were last year. Why do you have to go all soft in the head about some oversized redhead who sells sporting goods in a department store!

She knew as she asked the question that she would have no answer for it, and she reached for a comb, smiling ruefully at her reflection in the mirror before her. From the first moment she had met Dave Carter, sprawled there on that beach towel, the freckles bright against his nose, his eyes squinted against the sun, all the other boys she had ever known had faded into nothing. It had taken her twenty minutes of careful planning before she worked her nerve up enough to walk over to him and ask him the time. It was the first time she had ever done such a thing, and she had worried all the way home that he might think back on it later and decide that she was too forward and never make any effort to call her or look her up at all.

The worry had been unnecessary, for he had turned up at the Green Cove two nights later. She had glanced up from the table she was clearing and had seen him there in the doorway, and relief had washed through her. It had taken her a

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