Celtic Rain (The Battle Raven Series) Read Free Page B

pulled his laptop out of his backpack and headed to the living room sitting down in his favorite leather cushioned chair.
    Lara took off her field jacket and examined the damp dusting of dirt from the dig on it. She let out a sigh remembering her leather bomber jacket that was lost at a dig in Greece. She had been looking all over for a similar jacket only to find out it was discontinued. Lara would not have even thought about buying a military style field jacket until Kedryn saw a character on one of his favorite TV shows wearing one and he just had to have it.
    Being somewhat practical she made sure that her field jacket was fashionable yet functional. The jacket had a removable lining with a multitude of pockets and was also waterproof. Much like the rest of her wardrobe it was made for comfort and convenience. Lara’s closet was full of cargo pants, baby doll T’s and zip up sweatshirts. The baby doll she had on at the moment read Everything’s Shiny . The one dressy item she did have was a pant suit which was now at the dry cleaners. Lara smacked the jacket and clumps of wet dust flew off of the back of it and splattered against her. She wiped some dirt off of her face. “That was brilliant.” Lara said as she brushed a drop of rain that was running from her hair to her chin.
    She turned and punched play on the answering machine set on top of a small delicately caved antique desk off to her side. Two messages from her mother, one from work, three from Kedryn’s girlfriend Lisa, she rolled her eyes at that one, and the ever present solicitation.
    “We really should get the rest out of the car.” she said and watched as he typed on his computer he had set out on the leather footstool in front of him.
    He looked over his shoulder as he hit send on his Yahoo messenger. “There are only the two frame packs left. Do we have to get them right at this moment?”
    Lara looked at him and over to Kedryn’s duffle bag and back pack he had set down by the door. “I guess not. I’ll get those in a minute. Have you seen the umbrella?” she asked and watched as he shook his head no.
    “Here take these.” she said and picked up the bag and duffle. “You can go to your room and start unpacking. I’ll get the frame packs.”
    Kedryn let out a long dramatic sigh. He got up out of the chair and closed his laptop. Walking over to his mom he took his backpack and duffle and headed to the staircase leading to the second story of the house. He stopped at the first step and turned to her.
    “Can’t I take a quick break?” he asked.
    It was her turn to sigh and answer as she walked over to her duffle and pulled out her laptop. Lara ignored his question for a moment and walked into the living room setting her laptop on a carved wooden trunk that was used as a coffee table.
    “No. We’ve had a break all weekend. You can take one after you unpacked. If you want you could go back out in the rain and get the frame packs instead of unpacking.”
    He grimaced and gave her a huge grin. “Um…I’ll unpack. If you call listening to your lecture, digging for bones, shards of pottery and studying for midterms a break.” He said with a little sarcasm in his voice.
    She plugged in her laptop to charge and glanced up at him. “I know it’s not as exciting as the other digs. It’s back to reality for both of us tomorrow.” She looked at his fake excitement on his face “Look. Even if this dig was not as exciting as Rome, Egypt or Greece it’s still nice to get away.”
    Kedryn stood unmoving by the stairs not wanting to head up to unpack yet. He wanted to stall the inevitable but on the other hand also wanted to get up the stairs to make a phone call since Lisa wasn’t on-line to chat.
    “Did you see the moon tonight on the way back? It’s a full blood red moon l ike your painting in the hall. My teacher said it’s the Harvest moon or something like that was going to be this weekend.”
    Lara looked out the kitchen window at the