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Scattered trash rolled through the parking lot. I pictured a stooped Asian
man sweeping it up with a broom whose bristles were bent and frayed.
He lifted his head to beam at me and ask if he should ring up my Nerds and
cream soda or if I’d surprise him with a new sugary treat today.
I blinked and Mr. Han was gone.
That’s all it was. A memory.
I’d certainly seen him in that very position enough times. Cleaning,
sweeping, tidying, and re-tidying the store his immigrant parents bought
with the last bit of change in their pockets. He used to tell me their story as
I slid crumpled bills under the partition. His parents worked from sunup to
sundown to build a business they would pass down to him, and when the
time came, he’d pass it to his daughter.
My eyes traced the angel wings graffitied on the boarded windows.
That time never came.
The light turned green and my uncle took off, leaving the street corner
and Han’s closed grocery store behind. I watched it through the window
until it was a speck in the distance, just to make myself feel worse.
“—no running, no loud music, no phones at the dinner table, and no—
Ember? Ember!”
I jerked. “Huh? Oh, sorry, Aunt Violet. What were you saying?”
She shot me a withering glare in the rearview mirror. “We’ll also need
to address your manners, I see. It’s incredibly rude to ignore people when
they’re speaking to you.”
“I wasn’t ignoring you. I just… got distracted for a moment,” I said.
“Tell me again.”
Violet sniffed. That wrinkled-nose glare had been etched in her face
since the judge told her it was either their home or foster care and the
streets. She never wanted kids either birthed, adopted, fostered, or left in a
basket on her doorstep, but I had a feeling she was wishing she went with
all of the above and filled her home with dozens of children so she could’ve
reasonably said there was no room for me.
As it stood, they lived in a mansion right across town and refusing to
take us in wouldn’t have looked good to the gossipy harpies at the country
club, and nothing mattered more than what they thought of her.
“As I was saying,” she continued. “If you’re going to live in our home,
you’ll abide by our rules. There is no running, no loud music, no phones at
the dinner table, and no boys in the house.
We have breakfast, lunch, and
dinner together and I expect you to be on time for meals. You have a nine
o’clock curfew and you must let me know if you’re leaving the house and
where you’ll be. Although, I feel it’s better you stay inside until you leave
for Raven River. Understood?”
“Yes, Aunt Violet.”
She nodded stiffly. “Good. Now, tell your brother what I said.”
I glanced to my left. Eli was reading his book, eyes zipping across the
page, and little pink tongue poking out. He was deep in the good part and
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