THE TOWER by Anne Hathaway (best classic books to read .txt) 📖

I didn’t have any money for dinner really. I mean I’d never even been on a date
before—or at least a date, date. See when I was in school it was all about
hooking up at parties and hanging out together with a whole group of friends and
maybe finding each other later that night. But this was like a real date.
Or at least it felt like a real date when I called her up that morning and asked
her if she wanted to go up to Pipestem State Park and look out over the mountains
. I told her I didn’t have any money for dinner, but she didn’t seem to mind,
or at least she thought I was joking. So that afternoon I picked her up and
drove out . And once we got there, we walked hand in hand, up to the
observation tower, and she started telling me about how she used to have a
lazy eye when she was a kid. I guess it was so bad she even had to wear an
eye patch in order to correct it.So she laughed.And then we both laughed at
how ridiculous the whole world was.
And so we kept right on laughing and started climbing the steps of the
observation tower. Then we finally got up to the top and caught our breath.
It was beautiful up there. And so we laughed some more and I told her what
a lucky girl she was being on such an expensive date and if she played her
cards right I had a whole pocketful of coupons for pizza lunch buffet. If we
scraped together our nickels and dimes then maybe we could go. She laughed
again and I noticed she had a cracked front tooth, which looked so cute when
she ginned. And so we stood there looking out over the mountains. I held her
hand and we didn’t laugh anymore. I pointed at the mountains and told her how
they were formed.
I told her how the mountains weren’t created by the last ice age really, but were
created by water run off from the last ice age. And so she stood and smiled.

I kissed her and tasted the taste of chewing gum on her chewing gum tasting
lips. And then it was quiet.

Publication Date: 02-19-2010

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