Heartsong (Logan 2)

"Aunt Sara?"

"Oh," she said as if she had been caught doing

something illegal or immoral. I stepped out quickly. "I'm sorry," I said. "I didn't mean to ruin your

dinner tonight."

She shook her head.

"Jacob doesn't mean half of what he says," she

insisted. I tried to keep a look of disbelief from my

face. It was something she had to believe to live in

peace, I thought. "He always regrets his blustering,"

she continued. "I told him. I explained it. I was just

taken by surprise. May is just curious. I know it's

natural. You didn't do anything terrible. I should have

been the one to start to explain. It's just that it's all so

overwhelming, isn't it? You're going along, growing

alongside boys, even playing the same games, and

suddenly you find you're very different." Her laughter

trickled off into the darkness.

I smiled at the simple but true statement. Then I

sat beside her.

"Did you have a lot of boyfriends before Uncle

Jacob, Aunt Sara?"

"Me? No. I never--no," she said. "Well, there

was someone I had a crush on," she confessed, "but

every girl had a crush on him."

"Who was that?"

"Teddy Jackson. He was always so handsome,

even when he was only twelve."

"Oh," I said. It didn't surprise me that any

woman would see Adam's father as a handsome

dreamboat, it was just that my dislike of Adam was so strong, I wasn't happy to hear about it. Aunt Sara was into her own memories, however, and didn't notice my