Tuesday Erotica Club by Lisa Beth Kovetz

Author:Lisa Beth Kovetz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2006-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

16. Bugs and Mice

LUX’S PENCIL STOPPED DEAD on her notebook. If I wasn’t so afraid of bugs and mice, I would run through the woods with the dog in the night. I could break bones breaking chains that bind my arms to my side and… And? The pencil tap-tapped on the word “and.” She didn’t know what else to write after “and.” The word seemed to hang there. Sometimes she wrote “but” instead of “and.” Still the next phrase would not materialize in brain or on paper. The images had been chasing her for weeks and she had come to believe that when she found the rest of the words she would know what to do about her life, at least for a little while.

Trevor entered from the bedroom in a bathrobe, half his face still showing the pillow marks. He padded sleepily around his kitchen, poured himself a glass of juice, and stared at Lux while he drank it.

“Where have you been lately, sweetheart?”

Lux kept her eyes on her notebook. It all starts out so good until you come to “where you been, bitch?” Trevor spoke softly, used the proper helping verb (“have”), a gentle endearment (“sweetheart”) and the extra word (“lately”), which implied a more random request for information. But that didn’t make it any better for Lux. In Lux’s experience, any conversation that starts with “Where you been” ends with a bruise on the arm or a bite on the ass.

“I told you already, I was helping Jonella with the baby cuz she’s been sick.”

“Yes, but…”

“That’s what happened,” Lux said so firmly he knew she was hiding something.

“I understand but, um, is everything ok?”

“Yes,” Lux said.

“Yes, what?”

“Yes, Trevor, everything is ok, why the fuck didn’t you invite me to your son’s wedding?”

Trevor stopped as guilt hit him square in the face. I didn’t invite her to the wedding and now the little bunny is angry with me, he thought as he misunderstood what she was saying. Trevor believed that because Lux was shouting at him about being left out of the party that she was angry at him about being left out of the party. It was not true. Lux couldn’t give a rat’s ass about Teddy’s wedding. Lux was afraid and she was doing her best to avoid getting hit, or even worse, bitten.

“Parry” was one of the vocabulary words on Lux’s list of concepts and phrases that she wished to own and operate. Once she got the right spelling and found a dictionary, she learned that it means 1) to ward off weapon or attack; 2) to avoid answering a question directly. Every fight Lux ever had, even the battles she won, ended with a new bruise on her body because she had never heard the word “to parry” and therefore did not understand that she could also defend herself by moving away. She liked the concept and was working on perfecting it. Her inquiry as to the location of her wayward wedding invitation was a defense disguised as an attack.

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