Here We Have Idaho, Chapter 7
by Simahoyo
Maua had that deer caught in headlights look. I knew she had thought no one here knew her family–wrong. Maura sighed. "Yes, I am. How do you know her?" Matt chuckled. My dad is on the board at BAM, Boise Art Museum. Your mother is a little hard to forget. She was putting in an installation, and broke a piece." Maura laughed. "You got a French language lesson, I take it."
"Yup. She told me her husband asked her not to swear in front of you when you were little, and so she switched to French." I hadn't heard that little detail from either one of them. "My first word in French was, 'merde.'", Maura confessed.
"She brags about you. Did you know that?" Maura got that teary voice. "No, I didn't." "I heard all about her daughter the Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
"I don't want to hear about it until dinner is over.", said Babe, and we all sat down. There was thin sliced roasted meat hollowed in the middle and filled with stuffing, gravy, roasted vegetables, caramelized perfectly –potatoes, onions, carrots, beets, so tender and sweet, I kept going back for more. "Babe, I don't know how you did it, but Jane never eats vegetables if she can help it. Please tell me how you did those." Babe nodded and smiled. "What is the meat", I asked as I took another portion. "Beef heart." I put down my fork, shrugged, and started eating it again. "I don't care. It's really good."
I almost didn't want to leave, but it was back to work, and I love my job. I wore my new cowboy boots to work, and sure enough Frost was the first one to notice. "Rizzoli finally got new boots. Oh, check those out. You could break some perp's shin with those. And they look like you can run in them." Korsak leaned over to look. "You get those in Idaho?" I nodded. "Anything else?", he asked. So I showed him my miraculous medal and told him the story of Artie the pack rat, minus my screaming for Maura to save me. Frankie sneaked up behind me and tried to scare me, so I punched his arm, but not hard. "You have fun, Sis?" So I brought out the pictures, and passed them around until Maura wandered up with Cailin. I raised an eyebrow.
"I decided to spend more time with Cailin. We need some family stories to remember.." "Yeah, but are you positive that someday I'll laugh at Mom smothering me?" I lowered my voice conspiratorially. "I hope so. Still waiting in my case.".
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