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- Authors: Tori Ross
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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Late September-Savannah
“Mr. Pickles doesn’t like peas or brushing his teeth,” the child in
front of me says, his hands on his hips and clutching the stuffed
rabbit he’s dropping into my care.
It was my idea to implement a stuffed animal sleepover story time at my
new job as the Evergreen Hills Library youth coordinator. Children bring a
stuffed animal to the library, kiss it goodnight, and leave it here for the
evening. When they pick it up in the morning, we’ll have donuts, share
pictures about crazy things the stuffed friends got up to in the night, and
read a story about sleepovers. The program’s done well in other towns, and
I thought I’d try it here.
I smile at the child and peruse my clipboard, searching for the last male
child to drop off their friend. “You must be Brody,” I say. He nods and
hands me the rabbit with a dubious look. “He’ll be fine. I promise.” I look
at the rabbit with its torn whiskers and one chipped plastic eye and flick one
of the bent whiskers. “In fact, he looks like a leader. I bet he’ll make some
great friends.”
Brody stares at me for a few seconds until his mother, a woman in
leggings and an off-the-shoulder sweatshirt, drags him away, his eyes never
leaving Mr. Pickles.
I wave until he’s through the sliding entrance doors before gently placing
Mr. Pickles on the book cart and pushing it into the back room.
“I thought you dealt in books instead of stuffies, Savannah,” my mother’s
voice chimes from across the checkout counter.
Sighing, I turn to face her, lamenting that my mother feels it necessary to
visit me at work every day on her lunch hour. “Hello, Heather.”
My mother, a woman of only forty-five with flawless skin and a more
chiseled abdominal section than I’ll ever have, insists on visiting me to
check on my social life. She also insists I call her by her first name when
we’re in public in the attempt to not let everyone know that she’s old
enough to have an adult daughter. Fat chance of that. We live in a small
town, and everyone knows every resident and their entire family.
I know what questions she’ll ask before they leave her mouth, and I paste
on a fake smile before trudging to the counter to get it over with.
“Are you going out with anyone tonight, sweetheart?” she asks, pushing
a hunk of dark hair that fell out of my ponytail back from my face. “If so,
you should wear your hair down.”
“I’m going home after work. I have to get up early to take pictures of
stuffed animals doing shenanigans, and I want to watch the next episode of
The Rings of Power. I’m not worried about my hair.”
She closes her eyes, shaking her head like she can’t believe she was
gifted with such a socially inept child like myself. “Savannah, you’re
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