Where the Blue Sky Begins by Katie Powner

Author:Katie Powner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary;FIC042100;FIC026000;FIC045000
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2022-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

twenty-four

Eunice sat on Eric’s front step with slumped shoulders, watching Cinderella chase grasshoppers through the yard. It had already been a couple of hours since he and Dusty left. She had somehow managed to avoid actually getting in the Jeep for this long—she’d gone back home to change, she’d eaten a snack, she’d checked on her garden—but she couldn’t put it off any longer. It was true what she’d told Eric. By afternoon she’d be too spent to trust herself to go anywhere, and it was already eleven o’clock.

She thought she’d been prepared for this. After Wanda’s twisted version of a pep talk last week, she’d told herself it was time to face another old friend. But she’d expected Eric to be with her. Something about having another person along to take her home if something went wrong gave her a little extra courage.

Why had she jumped at the chance to borrow his Jeep and drive herself? She leaned her elbows on her knees and groaned. Because she thought she was stronger than she was.

She could accept defeat, return Eric’s keys when he got home, and ask him if he was available next weekend instead. But what if he was busy again? What if something came up? What if she . . . didn’t make it that long?

No. She could do this. She didn’t need Eric. And he didn’t need to know about all the mistakes she’d made. Or that her driver’s license had expired.

“Oh, Lo-ord.” Her words blended with the hot air and disappeared. “You wanted Wanda to light a fire under my butt so I wouldn’t keep waiting, right? Which means you must be okay with the driver’s license thing, right?”

With a groan, she rose to her feet. No more excuses. She would be careful.

JoJo hung silently and solemnly from her lower abdomen as Eunice trudged to the Jeep and climbed in, reminding Eunice that she’d need to get back home before the pouch required emptying. Her destination was way out there, near the river, but if the conversation was short—and she suspected it would be—she could be back in an hour and a half.

The steering wheel felt strange under her hands. The pedals strange beneath her feet. Even though it had only been a couple of months since she’d last driven a car, it took a minute for her body to remember what to do. She backed out of the driveway slowly, senses on high alert.

“Okay, God.” She reached up and pulled down the sun visor. “Let’s do this.”

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