Wonder When You’ll Miss Me by Amanda Davis

Author:Amanda Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061854057
Publisher: HarperCollins

Elaine had me sit on the porch and wait for Sam. I could not believe the conversation that had just taken place, any of it. I could not believe that I might have a chance to go on with them. And I did not know what I would have done otherwise. I stood and smoothed my sweater.

Just then, Sam marched past me and knocked on the door. Elaine answered it. She indicated me with her cigarette. “Annabelle’s going to groom for Jim and take over for what Yael was doing for Benny, okay? You can put her where Yael was—Wilma’s trailer, right? Tell Wilma I’ll take care of the money for now. Annabelle’s with us on trial. Show her where she needs to go. I’ll see you later.”

She shut the door and Sam turned to me with a mixture of pity and disgust. “Come on,” he said.

He led me back towards the hay truck, around to the other side of the big top where there were more vehicles. He rapped on the side of a brown Winnebago, but no one came out and he cursed under his breath.

I strode along beside him, into the big tent where an older man spreading sawdust waved at us, and then out again. Finally he told me what I was going to do.

I was to muck out Bluebell’s and Olivia’s stalls every day for Jim Brewer, the elephant trainer, and I was to make sure that they had fresh water and food. Every day. Make an elephant unhappy and we’ll all be unhappy, I was told. I was to muck out the show horses’ stalls and do whatever I was told by any of the animal trainers. And when I wasn’t doing that, I was to help out in the costume trailer.

“If you handle those jobs,” he said, looking past my elbow and into the distance somewhere, “and providing everyone doesn’t hate you or think you’re an annoying idiot, then you’ll help with teardown when we move again.”

“Teardown?”

He sighed with great exaggeration. “Take. This. Show. Down,” he said like I was an annoying idiot. “We’ll climb that mountain if we come to it. Come on.”

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