Ruby Lost and Found by Christina Li EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Christina Li
- Language: English
- Genre: Friendship Fiction
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YE-YE AND I had this rule: If you passed by a Chinese bakery on the
way home, you had to make a stop. This was extra true if it was May’s
Bakery.
By this time last year, my grandfather and I knew by heart exactly
which routes would lead to this off-chance, totally-by-coincidence-ofcourse encounter with May’s Bakery on our walks back to his and my
grandmother’s apartment, right near San Francisco’s Chinatown. Ye-Ye
knew everything: hilltops to catch the sunset, parks where we’d spot old
men doing tai chi on Saturday mornings, or stands where he could pick up
surprise flowers for Nai-Nai.
When we did come across May’s, we’d do the exact same thing. We’d
stop and exchange a look. Ye-Ye would raise an eyebrow. “Egg tarts or
coconut bread?”
And every time, I said, “Both?”
Dad, for some reason, didn’t know to do this, even though Ye-Ye was
his dad. Maybe the May’s Bakery rule skipped a generation. This time on
our way across the city to Ye-Ye and Nai-Nai’s apartment, we passed by the
storefront, with its bright red banner and yellow letters, and Dad didn’t stop.
He didn’t even look back at me. It was probably because we were driving
instead of walking, and Dad had to focus on traffic instead.
Dad cranked the NPR station up the louder the cars honked around us. I
let down the window a little bit. The honks always made me anxious, but
the breeze felt nice. A biker whizzed past, so close I could feel his jacket
flap in my face. Dad started tapping his fingers on the steering wheel, a sign
that he was getting impatient.
The light turned green, and we eased up and over the hill.
Mom turned around from the front seat to face me. She wore a suit
jacket instead of her usual workout gear. She and Dad must have an
important meeting today. “You got everything?”
I nodded. My phone was tucked into my pocket. My fingers gripped it
tightly as if I were expecting a text any second, even though basically that
never happened these days. My friend Naomi hadn’t texted me in months,
and my other friend Mia and I didn’t talk as much as we used to. I ran
through a mental checklist to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.
My
clothes were packed in the duffel. I had my phone charger. My watercolor
set was tucked somewhere deep in there, in a big plastic bag, even though I
wasn’t quite sure why I brought it. I even had remembered to pack socks.
The last time my family went on vacation to Yosemite, I’d forgotten to pack
socks, and I’d spent the next two days turning them inside out and back
again to wear before Mom finally was able to spot fancy hiking socks in the
gift shop. But it wasn’t going to be the end of the world if I’d forgotten my
socks now. Home was just a drive away.
“Nai-Nai’s excited to have you come,” Mom said. “She even made you
breakfast.”
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