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- Authors: Kate Oliver
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SUMMER
Present Day…
“Mom, what are you doing?”
“I’m making a peanut butter sandwich. Do you want one?”
My eyes flick down to the ketchup bottle my mother is holding and
pause. Ever since I arrived home a couple of months ago, she’s been doing
things that make no sense. And I feel guilty as hell. Why didn’t I come back
to Pine Hollow sooner? Why did I not realize her illness was progressing
much faster than I thought? How long has she been making herself ketchup
sandwiches? Has she actually been eating them?
“Why don’t I make you a nice hot grilled cheese and some soup?
Doesn’t that sound better for a snowy day like today?”
She looks up from the counter and smiles. “I’d like that, Janet.”
I swallow heavily, trying to force the enormous lump lodged in my
throat back down. She calls me by a different name every day. I gave up
correcting her after the first few times. It upsets her, and it can turn the
whole day from good to terrible.
“I’ll get it started. Go sit down in your chair and watch the snow. The
flakes are huge.”
She pats my shoulder as she shuffles out of the kitchen. I give her the
best smile I can manage, but as soon as she’s out of sight, I let out a shaky
breath and sniffle. When I decided to come home to spend some time with
her, I had no idea what I would be walking into. One of her neighbors, who
came over every day to check on her and see if she needed anything, never
told me how bad she was. So now, I’ve extended my leave at the office,
which only stresses me out more. For my mom, I’ll be strong, but all I want
to do is curl up in a ball, suck on my thumb, and cry myself to sleep. Why is
being a big girl so hard?
I’m halfway through making our soup and sandwiches when movement
out of the kitchen window catches my eye. Bent over the engine of his
classic Camaro, doing who knows what with it, is the man who, all these
years later, still gets my blood pumping like I just ran a marathon. The sight
of him also makes my chest ache. The pain should have gone away after all
these years. Why won’t it go away?
Almost as if he can feel my eyes on him, he turns his head and looks
directly at me through the kitchen window. My first instinct is to duck so it
doesn’t look like I was gawking at my neighbor, but I don’t do that. I can’t
move. I’m frozen in place as we stare at each other for several seconds. I
feel like a teenage girl all over again. Staring at him through the windows
like a stalker.
“Are you smoking in there, Janet? I smell smoke,” my mom calls out.
“Ahh! Crap!” I cry as I run over to the stove. “Sorry, Mom! It was just a
sandwich burning. I got distracted.”
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