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“Very funny.”
“Come on. Why are you so serious? Lighten up a bit. Maybe going to Miss Kim will be the best thing that ever happened to you.”
“How could that be? You know as well as I do that do-gooder conscience won’t let her do anything except call the authorities. It might not be the cops, but you know it’s going to be somebody, and you know they will take me away.”
“Then maybe you’ll find a good family.”
“It’s like you want to be rid of me, Dixie,” she said, ripping her hand out from underneath his and flipping onto her back, although she stayed pressed close to his side. It was as though she needed him as much as he needed her.
“I’ve gotten used to having you around, Bekpet.” He patted her shoulder awkwardly from where his arm lay underneath her. “We’ll figure something out. I just don’t think that going to the right people will be as bad as what you think it is.”
For sure, if she went to his parents, they would definitely turn her in because they wouldn’t want to be bothered with her. They would want to hand her over to someone else who would take care of her, and they wouldn’t really give a flip about her sister or her family or her situation.
Rodney knew enough to know that not everyone thought the way his parents did. There were people who truly cared. There were people who knew that the law was the law but that sometimes the law wasn’t the best way to go.
Or maybe the idea was that there were different ways to handle things.
Anyway, his gut told him that Kim and Davis, the people who owned the farm where Becky worked, would handle things differently.
“I thought you liked the horses.”
“I do, Dixie. Haven’t you been listening to me? I don’t want to quit! I just have to.” She said that last part softer. Sadly, like she really would miss her job.
“You told me that you love horses. That you want to grow up and be a horse trainer.”
“Or something like that. I want to own a riding stable and rent horses out and get to work with them every single day. I want to take girls in. Girls that need homes, I want to give them good homes. With all of their siblings. And not just take one and not everyone.”
Her voice cracked a little, and her body wobbled. Rodney figured she was probably biting back tears.
He would be. It would stink to have a sibling and have her be adopted out while the family didn’t want him.
Of course, he would never know what that was like, because he was never going to get a sibling.
His parents probably felt like they made a mistake with the one child that they did have.
“Why don’t you let me talk to them?”
“No!”
“Wasn’t I right about the job to begin with?”
“That doesn’t mean you’re right about everything, Dixie.”
“Why don’t you trust me a little?”
“Because I don’t trust anyone. There isn’t anyone I’ve ever trusted that hasn’t let me down.”
“I haven’t.”
“You will. It’s just a matter of time. I know.”
She crossed her arms over her chest, and he could almost feel her staring at the ceiling.
He rolled over, facing her and tugging at her a little bit until she rolled onto her side and allowed him to spoon her through the covers.
“Come on. Admit it. You’re wrong. There isn’t anyone in the world that you can trust more than me.”
“That might be true. But that doesn’t mean that I can trust you any further than I can throw you, and considering that you weigh a ton, that’s not saying much.”
