They Gave Me a Check at Twelfth Night, So I Took Their Mardi Gras novel · Chapter 30 of 32

Chapter 30: Jazz Fest

Jazz Fest filled the Fair Grounds infield with a hundred thousand people, a brass band on every corner and the smell of fried shrimp over everything.

I walked in on the first Saturday in April with Gaspard's hand around mine, and nobody looked at me twice.

It was the first time in three months.

I wore a yellow sundress that Mama had hemmed, and a straw hat, and sandals that were meant to be walked in.

Gaspard had on a faded work shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbow.

He kept buying me things.

He bought me a crawfish bread and then a cup of cochon de lait, and when I said I couldn't eat any more he ate the rest and bought me a snowball in the color of a bruise.

"Cover your mouth," he said, with a smile.

"Why?"

"You've got a blue tongue."

I stuck it out at him.

He leaned down and kissed me in the middle of a crowd of strangers, under a banner for a gospel tent, tasting of sugar and pepper.

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