Boswell, LaVenia by THE DAWNING (The Dawning Trilogy) Read Free Book Online Page B

While raffling through her small purse she stepped into the room.  “Hi guys.”  Looking up she admitted, “Hi Jas, I thought it was you.  You could have honked, I was almost ready.”
                Both fellas stood there staring at her.  She realized with surprise that Jason looked at least five years older than Thomas.  Thomas was nine years older than her, making him twenty-seven.
                Jason finally managed to say, “Hi Jen, uh, what . . . what did you do to your hair?”
                “Got this Alice pixie cut hair style.  I just love it!” she answered with a happy grin.  Let him stew.  She knew most guys liked long hair, how would he feel if he thought her’s was gone?
                He looked over at her brother who shrugged his shoulders, also thinking her hair was cut.  She’d worn the wig while he’d been here.  He hadn’t even asked her about her hair.  Brothers!
                Thomas suddenly grunted as he came stalking swiftly across the room to her.  Grabbing her arm he whirled her around and out into the hallway.  When he’d oddly marched her halfway to her room he hissed, “Where do you think you’re going with that top on like that?!”
                Irritated and baffled, Jennifer exclaimed, “My top?!  Are you crazy?  What’s wrong with my top?”  She looked down and only now saw that without a bra the tube top tended to outline her form like a second skin and revealed far more than she’d been aware.  The worse part was the stretch knit material had also drawn up on itself and actually shrunk while she’d been wearing it.  Way over half her feminine assets was now visible.  Even her clothes were fighting against her she decided with weary anger.  Still it wasn’t nearly as revealing as the bikini she’d bought on sale to wear this summer, it was her very first one too.
                She snorted with irritation a time or two trying to decide what to do.  She could insist on keeping it on and have an all out battle loud enough for Jason to hear, because she got loud when she was angry or she could change the top.  She was siding with the battle, just for the principle of her determining her own type of clothing, when Jason called out from the great room, “Uh, Tom, could I speak to you for a moment, please?”
                Casting her a nasty glare Jenny figured was supposed to sear her eye balls out as they burst into flames Tom walked back into the room where Jason was waiting.
                Jennifer was still fuming and snorting in the hallway when Thomas returned.  She gave him a look that should have frozen his feet to the carpet.  Instead, he walked over and told her to button up three buttons and she could go.
                Refusing to be obedient - he wasn’t the boss of her!  She just glared at him.
                “Sis, I love you and I don’t want to see you hurt or for people to get the wrong impression about you.  Please, button those few buttons to keep me from worrying so much about you I might wreck on the way back.”
                Well, since he was now asking so nicely and all.  She buttoned her blouse to cover the tube top.
                With a look of dire warning he added, “Now promise me, you’ll keep that buttoned tonight.”
                “Jeeze, Louise,” she muttered, but nodded her head.
                Jason suddenly walked into the foyer, went to the front door and held it open for her, acting as though he hadn’t heard every word she and Thomas had said.  He should have been an actor, she begrudgingly decided, Players By The Sea would have loved to clone several of him.
     
     

 
     
    A Friend Indeed . . .

5 – The FIRST HAPPENING
     
     
    “So, Thomas tells me he’s getting married in August,” Jason offered, trying to get Jenny to speak.  She’d been