Their Freefall At Last by Julie Olivia EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Julie Olivia
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Twenty-Three Years Before
Ruby & Bennett are Seven Years Old
“You’re going in. Big girls don’t cry.”
“But, Daddy …”
“Amelia, let’s not do this today, okay? Your mom is running late.”
She is.
I know because Daddy jumped our car right onto the curb, making Mama
scream, “RICHARD!” But she still had a smile, which meant she liked that
he was making a big deal out of it.
Daddy holds out my Buzzy the Bear backpack. I sniffle and grab it slowly
because, if I don’t, they’ll think I have attitude. And if I have attitude, I might
have to actually stay here.
Other kids laugh and run past us from Honeywood Fun Park’s gates, their
backpacks jangling with key chains and untied sneakers.
I want to go home.
Mama is filling out paperwork at the sign-in table. She told me
Honeywood Fun Park would be exciting. But so far, there’re too many new
people, the morning sun is too bright, and the roller coaster I can sort of see
through squinted eyes is way too tall.
Like, way too tall.
I now get what Daddy meant at dinner last night.
“I’m telling you, Amelia is not gonna ride the roller coasters,” Daddy
said.
“She’s seven,” Mama said. “What seven-year-old doesn’t want to ride
roller coasters?”
Sometimes, I wonder if I have superpowers because Mama and Daddy
say a lot of things like I’m not there. But one time, I tested it by slamming my
fork on my plate, and Daddy shook his head at me with the scary eyebrows,
so I guess I’m not invisible.
“You promise not to be scared, honey?” he asked me, glancing down to
my uneaten veggies and back up.
I nodded because not agreeing would only get more questions.
“It’ll be fun,” Mama said, showing me a piece of paper about the day
camp at Honeywood, where they were sending me for my birthday week. She
said there would be a scavenger hunt, arts and crafts, where we’d color
pictures of Queen Bee, and we would be meeting the real Buzzy the Bear.
I was excited because I loved Buzzy the Bear and I loved scavenger
hunts.
But then we got here, and I saw my first roller coaster. The crisscrossing
blue bars were so high up that I couldn’t see the top through the sunbeams,
and then a big train flew over the track faster than any of my Hot Wheels. It
was so loud that I had to cover my ears.
I’m not excited anymore.
Daddy looks at me, his jaw doing that grinding thing. The thing that says
he’s thinking about what to say, and it will probably be something not fun.
“Why are you scared?” he asks.
I point to the roller coaster, and Mama lets out a sigh.
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