The Velvet Room
“Up to the minute when the pencil was poised over the scrap of paper, Robin didn’t know what she was going to do. But some hidden part of her mind must have been working on it secretly, because, with the pencil in her hand, she didn’t hesitate. She just wrote “go” as quickly as she possibly could and dropped her ballot in the can. Then she jumped up and ran out of the cabin, and no one tried to stop her and make her come back.
It was a hard day at school, and that afternoon she went straight... to Palmeras House and up to the Velvet Room. In the alcove she pulled all the drapes shut so that it was almost dark, and she was alone in a soft reddish twilight. Then she collapsed on the window seat and began to cry. She hadn’t cried for a long, long hue, not since she was a very little girl back in Fresno. But that Tuesday afternoon she cried enough for all the times in between when she had wanted to and hadn’t, for all the fear and shame and confusion of those three years, as well as for what she would lose when she left Las Palmeras.MoreLess
It was a hard day at school, and that afternoon she went straight... to Palmeras House and up to the Velvet Room. In the alcove she pulled all the drapes shut so that it was almost dark, and she was alone in a soft reddish twilight. Then she collapsed on the window seat and began to cry. She hadn’t cried for a long, long hue, not since she was a very little girl back in Fresno. But that Tuesday afternoon she cried enough for all the times in between when she had wanted to and hadn’t, for all the fear and shame and confusion of those three years, as well as for what she would lose when she left Las Palmeras.MoreLess
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