XVI by Karr Julia

Author:Karr, Julia [Julia, Karr,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-03-31T15:45:54.535000+00:00

No one said a word. I took a deep breath and explained more. “Before Ginnie died, she told me my father was stil alive. The other night Sal asked me if I’d ever thought he might not be dead and said that my father was a NonCon leader. Gran says Alan wasn’t a radical, that he changed things by talking. Whatever the truth is—I need to know. Ginnie left me something to give to him. She said it had al the answers. Answers to what, I don’t know. But if you know where he is, please tel me.”

“I was there the night your father drowned,” Mr. Jenkins said. “Alan and I were meeting at one of the oases. I arrived first and saw your father crossing the bridge. The streets were icy; a trannie swerved and knocked him off the bridge into the river. I think it was deliberate. The trannie disappeared down the street and your father disappeared into the water. I told the police what I had seen. Alan’s body was never recovered.”

“Ginnie wouldn’t lie. And what about Sal?” I searched their faces for some glimmer of hope, but there was none.

“I’m so sorry, Nina.” Mrs. Jenkins hugged me. This time it didn’t make me feel anything at al .

“If we had more time tonight I would let you hear one of your father’s speeches. But it’s late. Next time you’re over, if I’m not here, Wei knows where they are. You’l be sixteen soon and you need to know the things your father believed,” Mrs. Jenkins said. “These are the things he would die for.”

“Thank you.”

“Have you fil ed out your FeLS application yet,” Mrs. Jenkins asked.

“Ginnie bought my contract,” I said. “It was one of the last things she did.”

“I am so glad. Keep that contract in a safe place. We don’t believe that FeLS is exactly what the GC would like us to believe it is. I know that neither your mother nor your father would want you to end up in FeLS training.”

“Gran’s got it,” I said. “I’m sure it’s fine.”

“Make sure it is secure,” Mr. Jenkins said. “I’m sure the government would love to have Alan Oberon’s daughter in their FeLS program. As if that might give it some respectability in the eyes of those who don’t trust the government.”

“My friend Sandy wants more than anything to be a FeLS. She thinks it’s the only way she can get out of the low tiers. She even asked me to talk to Ed for her.”

“Who’s Ed?” Mr. Jenkins asked.

“He was Ginnie’s boyfriend. She started seeing him when I was four or five. He got her pregnant with Dee and we moved out of Gran and Pops’s.

When Ed was transferred to Cementvil e, we went, too.” I wasn’t quite sure how much to say, but Wei’s parents had been so kind, I kept on. “Ginnie kept us away from him as much as possible. He was abusive and mean. I don’t know how she stood being around him.

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