Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

‘Your boyfriend. Do you miss him?’ ‘I miss everybody tonight,’ she said. ‘I miss you too. I’ve missed you for a long time now. I’ve missed you so much you’ve gotten lost somehow, I can’t explain it. I’ve lost you. You’re not mine any longer.’ ‘Nancy,’ I said. ‘No, no,’ she said. She shook her head. She sat on the sofa in front of the re and kept shaking her head. ‘I want to y up and see my mother and Richard tomorrow. A er I’m gone you can call your girlfriend.’ ‘I won’t do that,’ I said. ‘I have no intention of doing that.’ ‘You’ll call her,’ she said. ‘You’ll call Del,’ I said. I felt rubbishy for saying it. ‘You can do what you want,’ she said, wiping her eyes on her sleeve. ‘I mean that. I don’t want to sound hysterical. But I’m going up to Washington tomorrow. Right now I’m going to go to bed. I’m exhausted. I’m sorry. I’m sorry for both of us, Dan. We’re not going to make it. at sherman today. He wished us good luck.’ She shook her head. ‘I wish us good luck too. We’re going to need it.’ She went into the bathroom and I heard water running in the tub. I went out and sat on the porch steps and smoked a cigarette. It was dark and quiet outside. I looked toward town and could see a faint glow of lights in the sky and patches of ocean fog dri ing in the valley. I began to think of Susan. A little later Nancy came out of the bathroom and I heard the bedroom door close. I went inside and put another block of wood on the grate and waited until the ames began to move up the bark. en I went into the other bedroom and turned the covers back and stared at the oral design on the sheets. en I showered, dressed in my pyjamas, and went to sit near the replace again. e fog was outside the window now. I sat in front of the re and smoked. When I looked out the window again, something moved in the fog and I saw a horse grazing in the front yard. I went to the window. e horse looked up at me for a minute, then went back to pulling up grass. Another horse walked past the car into the yard and began to graze. I turned on the porch light and stood at the window and watched them. ey were big white horses with long manes. ey’d gotten through a fence or an unlocked gate from one of the nearby farms. Somehow they’d wound up in our front yard. ey were larking it, enjoying their breakaway immensely. But they were nervous too; I could see the whites of their eyes from where I stood behind the window. eir ears kept rising and falling as they tore out clumps of grass. A third horse wandered into the yard, and then a fourth. It was a herd of white horses, and they were grazing in our front yard. I went into the bedroom and woke Nancy. Her eyes were red and the skin around the eyes was swollen. She had her hair up in curlers and a suitcase lay open on the oor near the foot of the bed. ‘Nancy,’ I said. ‘Honey, come and see what’s in the front yard. Come and see this. You must see this. You won’t believe it. Hurry up.’ ‘What is it?’ she said. ‘Don’t hurt me. What is it?’ ‘Honey, you must see this. I’m not going to hurt you. I’m sorry if I scared you. But you must come out here and see something.’ I went back into the other room and stood in front of the window and in a few minutes Nancy came in tying her robe. She looked out the window and said, ‘My God, they’re beautiful. Where’d they come from, Dan? ey’re just beautiful.’ ‘ ey must have gotten loose from around here somewhere,’ I said. ‘One of these farm places. I’ll call the sheri ’s department pretty soon and let them locate the owners. But I wanted you to see this rst.’ ‘Will they bite?’ she said. ‘I’d like to pet that one there, that one that just looked at us. I’d like to pat that one’s shoulder. But I don’t want to get bitten. I’m going outside.’ ‘I don’t think they’ll bite,’ I said. ‘ ey don’t look like the kind of horses that’ll bite. But put a coat on if you’re going out there; it’s cold.’ grate: Feuerrost bark: Rinde, Borke to pull up grass: Gras zupfen mane: Mähne to wind up in: landen in to lark it (up): herumtollen robe: Schlafrock 136 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv