Ghost Medicine
“My father just waited; he always did that. His patience and quiet ways made most people think he was aloof, that he didn’t care about anything. And it frustrated me, too, to watch him expect things to be predictable, and then try to act unsurprised when what he expected never happened. But I knew things about my father I didn’t have to say; all boys know those things about their dads.
After Will left us, my father stopped talking more than a few words every day, and I thought of him as some kin...d of professor who was quietly measuring the experiment of our lives with emotionless eyes. And I could tell he wanted to say things, too, but he held them in and I tried to be good and strong like his older boy. And I wanted to tell him things, too, but after my mom died, when it was just us left alone, I couldn’t bring myself to do it, even if I kept telling myself I had to.
As Reno and I made our way down through the trees, I listened to the rush of the river.
I remembered Tommy and Gabriel coming to my house, kidnapping me on my sixteenth birthday, and how my father had insisted I go with my friends as my mother lay sleeping in the room where she would die.MoreLess
After Will left us, my father stopped talking more than a few words every day, and I thought of him as some kin...d of professor who was quietly measuring the experiment of our lives with emotionless eyes. And I could tell he wanted to say things, too, but he held them in and I tried to be good and strong like his older boy. And I wanted to tell him things, too, but after my mom died, when it was just us left alone, I couldn’t bring myself to do it, even if I kept telling myself I had to.
As Reno and I made our way down through the trees, I listened to the rush of the river.
I remembered Tommy and Gabriel coming to my house, kidnapping me on my sixteenth birthday, and how my father had insisted I go with my friends as my mother lay sleeping in the room where she would die.MoreLess
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