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Show -285 but I didn't want to chase after you." She laughed. "It'd be different now. You were nice." "I liked you too," I said. »i don't know why I never did anything about it. I guess I thought you knew so many boys that you wouldn't have any use for me. And then you just had a little while to go before you graduated. What did you do after that?" "I went down to the University of Oregon for a while, but then I quit. It just wasn't me, you know?" The portable TV came on downstairs; I could hear Morgan and Alice in the kitchen. They were probably having a commiseration meeting of their own down there, talking about the general awfulness of men. Alice, anyway-Morgan didn't put people in categories but preferred to attack each of us as an individual. I wondered if she was telling Alice that she had decided' to leave me. "When are you going back?" Jenny said. "I don't really know for sure. A week or so maybe. When I've got things straightened out." "I'm sorry about your father; it must be a tough time for you, huh? I never could stand funerals. I tried to go when cousin Woody was killed but I had to run out of the church in the middle of the service. It was embarrassing. I had this feeling all of a sudden that I could smell the body-a sort of sweet gassy smell. I don't even know if |
