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Fup. Store Cat.
The Trip to Kahani
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Bear
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Zooey
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Fup tells Zooey, "When warmer weather finally came, Penny began spending most of the day outside. It wasn't long before she ran into Bruno. Penny wasn't shy. My Aunt Orono used to joke about how strategically Penny sought him out that spring — not that Penny ever denied it. She'd mooned over him all winter, the story goes."
Bear, meanwhile, bounding gymnastically from tie to tie so that his paws never land on the gravel between, interrupts to answer the question he knows Zooey wants to ask. He explains, "Bruno had dragged himself out from under the shed and gone back to his house, just like Penny's brother had supposed."
"Oh, right," Fup remembers. "I skipped that part."
"Basically," Bear continues, summarizing, moving things along to the juicy part, "Penny began meeting Bruno more and more, in one hideaway or another. Clandestine couplings behind the woodpile or in the loft of the Leeman's barn, that sort of thing. They were gaga over each other. But Penny told only Orono — she knew their parents and brothers would disapprove — so the rest of her family had no idea that by August Penny and Bruno had become inseparable."
"Which is when Orono announced she was moving to Ohio with her boyfriend," Fup adds. "And under different circumstances, maybe Penny could have managed without her." She pauses and motions to be still. The murmuring track warns of an approaching train. "A couple weeks later, she and Bruno might have gone with Orono to Ohio. But Penny didn't know yet that she was pregnant. With me and my sisters, as it turned out."
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