4 Works in Twenty-Something Helena Eagan
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He half-expects her to pop in and then turn around, but she sits on the grass beside him instead. He clears his throat, eyes wide for a moment before looking in her direction.
“Are you following me?”
“No,” she says, her voice low and soft. “Not unless you want me to.”
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Mark Scout takes a job at Camp Kier and spends the next six weeks getting to know twenty-five year old Helena Eagan.
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"Mark spends his evening not looking at Helena Eagan. He’s slouched in a hard, wooden chair, crammed into the back of a ballet studio, absolutely not paying attention to her. He doesn’t notice the way her hair is twisted out of her face, or the lean curve of her arms, or the vast expanse of bare back above the cut of her leotard."
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Mark Scout accepts a teaching position at the Myrtle Eagan Ballet Academy; Helena Eagan's attendance might make things complicated.
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Helena does not kneel. Not before Kier, not before men, not before anything outside herself.
And yet—
The kneeling rail is unyielding beneath her knees, the chill of the polished wood seeping through her stockings. It feels wrong to be here, but not in the way it should. It does not feel blasphemous. It does not feel shameful.
It feels exhilarating.
(Or: Helena Eagan has never known desire—that is, until she steps into Father Mark Scout’s chapel.)
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The girl doesn’t move. Mark looks at her funny.
“I’m Helly,” she says.
“Uh, hi, Helly. Why are you sitting on my desk?”
Quiet laughter. Helly slips from the surface, extending a hand he has to cross the room to shake.
“Helly R—your TA?”
Six months after the death of his wife, Mark returns to Ganz.