Second Chances
“I said to Elizabeth. I didn’t expect her to answer.
It was eleven o’clock and already stifling hot. I’d gotten up early to type my article. I’d wandered downstairs when I was done, and Mom had sent me outside to keep Elizabeth company. Elizabeth hadn’t even acknowledged my presence. I was getting bored watching her read another paperback. She was lying in the hammock and I was sitting on the grass nearby. I was sure my mother hadn’t meant me to stick around my cousin all day. That would hav...e been cruel.
“It’s too hot to bike. We could go for a swim later.” Elizabeth glanced up from the Harlequin romance she was reading. The cover had a pirate holding a woman in a low-cut scarlet dress around the waist. She’d borrowed the book from the rack in our store. Her fingers spun a long strand of hair around and around as she read.
“Okay. I’ll be back in a few hours, if Mom asks. You and I can go swimming then.”MoreLess
It was eleven o’clock and already stifling hot. I’d gotten up early to type my article. I’d wandered downstairs when I was done, and Mom had sent me outside to keep Elizabeth company. Elizabeth hadn’t even acknowledged my presence. I was getting bored watching her read another paperback. She was lying in the hammock and I was sitting on the grass nearby. I was sure my mother hadn’t meant me to stick around my cousin all day. That would hav...e been cruel.
“It’s too hot to bike. We could go for a swim later.” Elizabeth glanced up from the Harlequin romance she was reading. The cover had a pirate holding a woman in a low-cut scarlet dress around the waist. She’d borrowed the book from the rack in our store. Her fingers spun a long strand of hair around and around as she read.
“Okay. I’ll be back in a few hours, if Mom asks. You and I can go swimming then.”MoreLess
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