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Show 236 Day, and I hear this knock on my door," she glanced from Sharon to Robbie, from one to the other as she spoke, "and who do you think it was? Lynn and the kids. Standing there on the porch. Not a jacket between them. And her! her in the same pair of jeans she had on the day she left. Five years ago." Peggy shook her head. "Five damn years, and the same pair of jeans. My god, can you belive that?" Lynn blushed, but then quickly regained her composure. "I had some others, Mom," she protested, "they were dirty, is all." Still shaking her head, Peggy went back to the turkey. To make room for her, Billy toook her place at the threshold, leaning against the door sill. "She left her man," Granny suddenly nodded at Lynn, as she spoke to Sharon, "Because he was a no-good." Lynn started to say something, and then thought better of it. "She left him because he wasn't good to her," Granny told Sharon, "not good to the kids. No good." "You already said that, Granny!" Billy shouted, an angry cut to his voice: he was embarrassed. "Yes. Yes, I did," Granny said. She looked down at her hands, folded on her shawl. There was a long silence. And very red in the face, Billy said: "I'm sorry, Granny. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Sharon liked Billy for saying that, she could have hugged him to her. "You didn't," Granny protested, "you didn't hurt me." But she wouldn't look up from her hands. |
