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- Author: Maxine Rae
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Death
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eight months after
I’m staring at myself in the bathroom mirror when Mom bursts in,
garbage bag in tow, and starts rummaging around.
“Oh,” I say. “Cool. I guess knocking’s out of fashion?”
Mom ignores me and, despite her erce devotion to thriftiness—
despite the fact that she yells at us if we buy anything fully priced,
or really if we buy anything at all—starts throwing bathroom
products in the trash at random. I watch in silence, too stunned to
bid a silent farewell to my Aveeno lotion, which I just bought. My
younger sisters Saige and Willow stand behind her, mesmerized by
this grand ransack of our bathroom.
“Mom,” I nally explode. “Hello? Hi. What are you doing?”
“Shrink said to.” Mom’s grinding her teeth.
“I haven’t met the shrink yet, but I’d bet all my savings that she
didn’t tell you to pillage the bathroom.”
“Rory,” Mom says. “I’m done. If you can swallow it, it’s going
away. Period.”
“Are you serious? Do you really think I would drink”—I gesture
furiously at what she’s holding
—“Saige’s fucking anti-dandru shampoo?”
“Hey now,” Saige objects from behind Mom. “We all use that.”
Mom gives me the death glare to end all death glares. “Rory, I
don’t know anymore. You tell me what you’re capable of doing. And
give Willow a dollar for the swear jar.”
I sh a single out of my jean shorts, drop it into Willow’s hand.
She grins at me before diligently leaving the bathroom. My youngest
sister is eight, but sometimes, she’s the most mature member of our
family.
Saige, who’s sixteen, takes the opportunity to interrogate me.
“When my friends ask how college is going for you, what am I
supposed to tell them? What will they think?”
“The truth.” I shove my sts into my pockets and lean against the
bathroom counter. I don’t know why Saige cares about what her
vapid lacrosse friends think. They’re all the same. There’s truly not a
single unique thought among them. “You can tell them your weird
older sister’s stuck in this bullshit town, because Ridgewood College
apparently decided to pull her scholarship for no fucking reason.”
Mom straightens up with her garbage bag and wipes sweat from
her cheek. “No reason? No bloody reason?” After living in the States
for two decades, she’s nearly lost her British accent, but it always
shows up when she’s pissed.
“No real reason,” I say as Willow returns. Instead of using literally
any of the empty space around us, my little sister sidles up right
next to me, leaning against the counter like I am. Except that she’s
much shorter, obviously, so she’s on tiptoe. She looks up at me with
her big eyes and gives me a hopeful, anxious smile.
Mom pushes past me into the hallway. “You know, I’m not even
going to discuss this with you. Not today.”
“You’re punishing me because I’m sad,” I call after her.
“Oh, cut the shit,” Mom responds.
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