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- Authors: Saffron A. Kent
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Present
“No,” I say into the phone.
In response, I hear, “Yes.”
Followed by another, in a different voice. “Absolutely yes.”
One voice belongs to my mother and the other, at the end there, belongs to
my neighbor and my friend, Jupiter Jones. Which makes me wonder — for
the third time since they called me — why I ever agreed to a conference
call. I should have held firm when my mother told me that she was calling
in Jupiter as well.
Can’t dwell on that now though; I’ve got other things to worry about.
I turn off the tap in the kitchen sink where I was doing the dishes so I can
fully concentrate on this conversation. “No. No way.”
“Meadow,” my mom begins in her very ‘mom’ voice. “Don’t be such a
pain. You’re going.”
“You are,” Jupiter chimes in.
“Hey,” I say to her, “you’re my friend. You’re supposed to be on my side.”
“And I am,” she replies back. “That’s why I want you to go.”
“See?” my mom tacks on. “She’s such a good friend. She only wants what’s
best for you.”
In response, I reply, “She wants what’s best for me?”
“Yes. Like I do.”
I sigh. “So going off with a stranger and getting cut up in pieces is what’s
best for me.”
“You’re not going to get cut up in pieces,” Jupiter says exasperatedly.
As if she’s so tired of me bringing it up.
I only bring it up because it’s true. Because it’s a real possibility.
Because we live in the real world where things like this happen all the time.
“Honey, that’s just the Dateline talking,” my mom informs me patiently.
And yes, maybe I bring it up because I watch Dateline.
Along with listening to several true crime podcasts.
Which I don’t think is a bad thing.
It’s never a bad thing to keep up with what’s happening in the real world.
It’s never a bad thing to be realistic and expect the worst. Because if you
expect the worst, you’ll never be surprised. Or shocked into a corner by a
serial killer who looked like a cute guy you wanted to kiss.
Because again, it happens.
“No, it’s the reality talking.” I shake my head, looking out the kitchen
window. “These things happen, Mom, okay? Women die because they went
on a date with a stranger.”
“Maybe it does. But it’s not going to happen to you.”
“Yeah, how do you know that?”
“Because I’ve taught you to run really fast.”
Jupiter laughs.
I breathe out sharply. “Actually, you’ve taught me to see good in all people
and be trusting.”
“There’s nothing wrong with being trusting,” Mom protests.
God.
Okay, I love my mother — I do — but she’s crazy.
She’s just… fearless.
Too fearless.
So much so that growing up, I had to be the one to teach my siblings — I
have four younger siblings, two sisters and two brothers — about stranger
danger.
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