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Show Woodworth/211 The room seems to have heated up without Megan, and it feels cluttered Magazines droop at different a|g?^Les on the coffee table, circles sweat from ice-filled glasses loop in patterns on side tables. The enduring off-white and tan of the walls and upholstery pull at her, and she looks from her father to her mother, hoping they will pull her back again. "Why do you keep staring at me like that?'.' Ruth asks. She pulls the robe tight across her, covering her chest with her arm. "I'm not staring." "You keep looking at me." She f e e l s a flash of i n j u s t i c e. y _ Why c a n ' t her mother oocW-r^ricW 'wmmmmm*nmmwmmmmWBBBmmWBm\ M M p S l ^ r i H I H H r i i M B H H H M i now. ^ But Ruth i s rumpled, her brows crossed, her skin cloudy. It's always the alcohol. Alcohol makes her like that. If she would give up drinking, she would realize. She'sr.all right the way she is. Her forgiveness, her saintliness, makes her reach further. "You look nice is all," she says, meaning it. Ruth snaps quickly, "Why do you always have to be sarcastic and. ruin everything, just when we were all having a nice time?" • " -^ -&% POT -rc^ She thinks of Gary, how he mm leaving Saturday, VaJje. 6Vc aa,-N e^W <\& OO\-KN W,r^ She doesn't have to be here, and now she is putting up with this. She could tell them the truth. t\ ^Phat she is in love now. She can wrap it around her, and they can't get in, can't hurt her. Or she can let them all wrap themselves up in it. Marty's happiness. Be happy for her. Be happy for me. "I wasn't being sarcastic. I was serious." Her mother sighs angrily and turns to Ned. -'I'll fix you a drink," he says, and stands quickly, cutting her off. Wordlessly, she handshiji--QIP gift's sT, and he leaves them in the room alone |
