Really, Deano was at a loss for words. He couldn't remember that ever happening. Now to be at Megan and Cori's all this time, he felt not quite himself, but to take on the role of being by Caitlin's side through the thick of it with her family crisis with her Dad made him feel a little uneasy.
"I don't know how I really feel," he told Roman that night on the Fourth when they went back to their old hometown and shot off a few fireworks in the high school parking lot. They'd done this for years. Drink a few beers just shoot off firecrackers for starters then later the Roman candles before the real fireworks took to the skies in their little town.
"Oh, you mean about Caitlin?" Roman winced and sipped on the light-beer. They weren't going to do anything heavy duty. Suddenly, they were real adults and this youth event didn't bring much satisfaction.
"I know I love her. I do. I just hope this Mario is worthy," he shrugged. "But it's the Melvin situation that's got me down. I mean, it's hard to think it's true. I just wish we had more answers, but will the questions ever stop?"
He said he knew he couldn't do much, but he wished he could, at least for Tori and Dylan. He knew they needed more answers than he did.
"So the pizza place is shut down for good?" Roman asked.
"I dunno." Deano shrugged and finished his bottle of beer, "Maybe." He was quiet then but said aloud a bit later. "I hate for us to shut down. I mean, Cori was the heart and soul of that place. It would have never made it, otherwise." He shook his head.
"Have you talked to him?" Roman looked in their sack of dwindling fireworks.
Deano shook his head, no and he sighed. "I really hope he gets through this."
"Why can't he?" Roman asked.
"This hit him hard," Deano reminded Roman that there was no clue where Wade went. Deano opened another beer. "What if Melvin didn't even die of COVID?" He thought about it. Maybe he was giving Wade more credit as a villain than he should. But there was a lot they didn't know. And would Mel's pizzeria ever open again?
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many unknowns.
ReplyDeleteSo many questions - the suspense is killing me!
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Perhaps in the next chapters the doubts will be dispelled.
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Interesting :-D
ReplyDeleteUy tantas interrogantes cada vez tu novela esta cada vez mas interesante. Te mando un beso
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting chapter. Is an investigation coming?
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Your description of the way Roman feels as he and Deano try to set off fireworks while talking about serious things is spot on: "Suddenly, they were real adults and this youth event didn't bring much satisfaction." There's always something sad about doing something you loved as a kid when you're all grown up, partly because it's never the same, partly because the problems of real life loom heavy. On a lighter note, I love how Roman is setting off Roman candles! Stuff like that always makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your banana pudding turned out well! Funnily enough, I made one too for a Fourth BBQ, the kind you brown in the oven.
Deano is an interesting character. He and Roman have a good dynamics as characters.
ReplyDeleteThis was beautiful Ellie, and I so adore the style in which you wrote about Roman and Deano.
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