Brainy Barker Novels & Stories

It was Bryan! T B C

When Beta Chris found me in the kitchen sobbing he was clearly out of his realm. He explained what Elder Jonah had said and it wasn't even that big a deal. I wiped away my tears as I listened to him explain that Braddock has a thing about age and that he was feeling like a pervert because I wasn't 18.

Delilah gave me a not-so-subtle nudge with her elbow. “You’re thinking too hard,” she murmured. “Just do it. Rip the Band-Aid.” Before I could talk myself out of it, I stood. The rustling of papers around the room quieted almost immediately. A few heads turned. A few eyebrows lifted. The board chair, Mr. Flannery—mid-sixties, bald, glasses perched at the tip of his nose—looked up and adjusted his mic. “You’d like to make a comment, miss…?” Mr. Flannery questioned.