Walk Me Home by Hyde Catherine Ryan

Author:Hyde, Catherine Ryan [Hyde, Catherine Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dpgroup.org, Fluffer Nutter
ISBN: 9781611097979
Amazon: B0099TF3RI
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2013-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

She opens the truck door and slides down, leaving the clean handkerchief on the seat. Takes three steps toward the trailer, then turns and waves.

She wishes she’d never seen the look on his face. Boy, does he ever look sorry for her. It’s a pathetic feeling. She must be utterly pathetic. Not that she didn’t know. More that it’s a shock to have the sheer extent of it mirrored back in his eyes.

He waves back. Even his wave is sad.

She doesn’t go into, or even near, the house. She doesn’t go anywhere near Jen, who’s hanging wash on a clothesline at the far back of the property. She doesn’t get close enough to see if it’s their laundry or something she had to do for Delores. She’s curious whether the old woman has a washing machine, or whether Jen washed things out by hand. Then she remembers Delores only has well water that doesn’t run through a pipe. So that pretty much answers the question.

She opens the trailer door, startled all over again by that loud squeal. She thinks she should be used to it by now. But it got her again.

She sees Delores through the living room window and quickly turns her face away so the old woman can’t see she’s been crying. As she hurries inside and shuts the door behind her, she remembers. Delores can’t see well enough to tell.

She lies on the little bed, facing the wall. Not actively crying anymore. Not actively anything.

After a while she puts the earbuds back in her ears and turns on Alvin’s music again. Just to fill her head with something. Anything better than what she’s already got. Which would be anything.

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