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

Bill Sunquist took a hunk of genuine 100% Rayon bowling shirt and laughed in Bobby
Shelbourne's face. Nice try. All these years away, Mr. Sunquist still felt Bobby
Shelbourne's cheekbones beneath his knuckles. The two of them waltzed around till they
fell back against the formica tabletop, slamming the blender and liquor and ice onto the
floor.



Melanie wasn't really so damaged. Mr. Sunquist found her, easing herself back against
the refrigerator. Her shirt was soaked watery green from a half-bottle of Midori, but she
seemed all right.



Roger Swann had come over to help her up, but she had more than pity on her mind.
She took his elbow and pointed toward the mess in the kitchen.



Like any young man of experience, he knew the risks of stepping into someone else's
fight. He thumbed the side of his mouth in an expression of unease. But Melanie had this
unassailable sense of mission when the chips were down. It animated her. It swept up
everyone around her. Roger found his resolve; together, they waded in. Each grabbed
an elbow, or a shoulder, and yanked backward.



Bill Sunquist had Bobby Shelbourne's face against the refrigerator. Mr. Sunquist dimly
remembered the conversation between them, something about eating the refrigerator's
door handle. Oh well.



The next moments came vivid, but in flashes, like snapshots: A hand on his arm. A face
coming in at him. He remembered placating words, but his blood was up. He swung
back his left hand and connected solidly with hard bone, right at somebody's hairline.
The face went away.



Bill Sunquist turned back for Bobby Shelbourne only to find that Melanie had got
between them. The fight was over.
He called to her. He nodded toward the door, Let's go. But Melanie was angry, she
ignored him.



Shelbourne fixed his eyes on her. Even as his friends moved him off to the far side of the
kitchen, he spoke to her. Bobby asked if she'd been hurt, was there anything he could