You Can Run by Norah McClintock

Author:Norah McClintock [Mcclintock Norah]
Language: ita
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780761390725
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

. . .

I was sitting in the living room area of my father’s place when he got home. He looked mildly surprised to see me.

“Did you have a fight with your mother?” he said.

“No. Why?”

“I know that face, Robbie. Something’s wrong.”

I gave him the envelope of photographs that Carl Hanover had left with me. Delivering them was one of the reasons I had come to my father’s place.

He glanced at the photos. “You sure everything is okay between you and your mother?”

“Dad, I already told you. We didn’t have a fight.”

“So she’s okay then, right? Because it sure looked like something was bothering her the other night.”

“She’s fine,” I said. And then I couldn’t help it: I looked away from him, just for a split second. He caught it—he always catches it—and he knew what it meant. But he didn’t say anything, I think because he understood that I had promised to respect my mother’s privacy.

“So if it’s not about your mother,” he said, “what is bothering you, Robbie?” He looked genuinely concerned. When I still didn’t say anything, he didn’t push me. Instead, he said, “It’s getting late. Are you hungry? I’m going to start dinner.”

He went into the kitchen. I trailed after him and watched him stare into the fridge. “How about an omelet?” he said. “Salad on the side? Toast, lightly browned, just the way you like it?” He pulled out eggs, mushrooms, and cheese.

“It’s Nick,” I said finally.

“Oh.” He didn’t sound surprised.

“You’ve heard something about him, haven’t you, Dad? I can tell by the way you act every time I mention him.”

My father set everything down on the counter and turned to look at me. He seemed so serious all of a sudden that it scared me. “I don’t know much, Robbie,” he said. “I just heard it hasn’t been smooth sailing for him lately.”

“What do you mean? What did you hear?”

“You know I like Nick, don’t you, Robbie? He’s done some pretty stupid things, but I think that he’s a decent kid. You know that, right?”

I said I did, but I was getting a queasy feeling in my stomach.

“And I know you like him. Maybe a lot. But you also know enough about his background, and about his”— he hesitated—“his problems to know that sometimes Nick makes things harder on himself than they need to be.”

I couldn’t stand it anymore. “What did you hear, Dad? Does it have anything to do with a guy named Glen?”

“Nick told you about him?”

“I met him,” I said. “I told Nick if I were him, I’d call the cops on Glen.”

A strange expression appeared on my father’s face. “Robbie,” he said, “Glen is the cops. That’s how I heard.”

“I met him, Dad. Well, sort of. That guy’s a cop?”

“Patrol officer,” my father said. “A good one too.”

“What did he tell you?”

“That things aren’t going so well between Nick and his aunt. And that Nick may not be able to live with her when he finishes at Somerset. He may have to live in a group home.

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