Finding My Elf by David Valdes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: David Valdes
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- Genre: Satire Fiction
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Two Days till Elfmas
No one can accuse my dad of being subtle. He loves Christmas the way
most guys in the Pioneer Valley love the Patriots. Instead of team jerseys,
he has a collection of ugly holiday sweaters that would be kind of
impressive if it wasn’t so embarrassing. (Seriously, the llama one lights up.
I can’t.) So I shouldn’t be surprised that when I arrive home for my first, or
maybe last, winter break from college, the house looks like, I don’t know,
Frosty Con. Snowmen everywhere.
I’m so not in the mood.
Don’t get me wrong: I like Christmas well enough. Even though
Halloween is my favorite holiday because of the costumes, I love all the
twinkling lights, and you can’t really overplay “All I Want for Christmas Is
You.” But it’s been a long day on the bus from NYC, and before it was a
long day, it was a long week in a long semester. Not that I’m ready to admit
that to my dad.
I purposely chose a bus that would get me home to Lindell while he was
working. Yes, it’s, like, almost two miles from the bus stop in front of the
old town hall to our place, but dragging my bag for forty minutes was worth
it for the chance to come home to an empty house. I need some time alone
in the privacy of my room before Dad gets here and I become the grinch,
the carol killer, the fly in the eggnog.
I have to tell him that I’m failing out of school.
Okay, that’s not entirely true. I’m passing freshman English and bio,
which is a total shock based on my high school science grades. But I’m
failing where it matters: my theater classes. They matter not just because
that’s my major but because I’m on scholarship. Or was. By the time grades
come in, that scholarship will be past tense, and probably my NYU future
along with it.
It’s a huge relief to open the door to my bedroom and see that my dad is
still honoring my personal space. Not a snowman in sight.
I don’t even unpack before throwing myself across my bed, which looks
exactly as I left it. When I boxed up stuff for college, I kept almost
everything in my room as it was. New York is the biggest city in the
country—why lug stuff with me when I can find whatever I want there?
Besides, I was going there to reinvent myself, to start a different life from
Cam here in Lindell, so why not wait to let the new me figure out my room?
I thought City Cam might change his hair, his clothes, his vibe. City
Cam’s friends might get him hooked on some new fandom, make him a stan
for something Lindell Cam had never even heard of. City Cam—
City Cam’s life didn’t look like that at all. And now I’m back in Lindell,
same as I ever was.
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