"Richard Wadholm - From Here You Can See The Sunquists" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wadholm Richard)

"Indigo Something," Mr. Sunquist recalled. "Shades of Indigo, I think."



"They filmed right outside my window for six months when I lived with Bobby
Shelbourne. The next year, the production company followed their expanding time
signature up the beach and filmed the actors playing opposite their own earlier
iterations. You remember that?"



Mr. Sunquist said he did. This was a lie? Mr. Sunquist had no money for television when
he was young? but all lies are sweet in La Jet├йe in August.



Mrs. Sunquist smiled at him, knowing and unconcerned. She led him by the hand to the
bed. They made love in the cool shade of the whitewashed room? sweetly, awkwardly,
stopping to see if everything was all right with the baby.



Later, as the heat of the day enveloped them, Mr. Sunquist pressed his arm around Mrs.
Sunquist's shoulders and drew her close. They had not slept this way since they were
newlyweds. Her hair had the soapy smell of newborn babies. The scent of it followed
him into his dreams.



Here was Melanie Everett, the girl that would be his wife. He remembered her all golden
under the sun, bashful but hardly uncertain. She had perfected this fascination that goes
with being the second-prettiest girl at every party. Boys became aware of her in stages,
the way they became aware of the first hit pop tune of the summer.



Forthright kids like Bob Shelbourne were always going to get around to Melanie Everett,
right after they investigated the fulsome charms of Jenn LeMel, or the Maynard sisters.
Shy kids always thought of her beauty as their secret. Being shy, they assumed their
secret safe.



Lying beside her now, Mr. Sunquist dreamed not of his wife, but of his friends? the
things they would tell each other. What did they think when they heard Melanie Everett
had gone home with him? His had been an epic battle, as pure as a fairy tale. A rival had
been vanquished. A maiden won. Being a man living at a certain moment in history, he