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- Author: Susan Lee
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Parents
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jessica
A warm afternoon in June…
It takes three deep breaths for me to convince myself it’s not my time to die.
Why did I think it was a good idea to fly alone to New York City again?
Outside with my parents, all I wanted was to get away. But now, inside on
my own? I’m sweating bullets.
“Are you okay?” The irritated woman at the airline counter is clearly not
into my inopportune potential panic attack, not with the line behind me
snaking back and forth with impatient passengers waiting to take my spot.
I remember what I researched via the University of Google, reminding
myself again how statistically unlikely it would be for my particular plane
to crash and burn while I’m on it, before answering the question. I release
one more deep breath and nod.
“Name,” the woman—Julie from Tampa, FL, according to her name tag
—asks.
“Jessica Lee,” I answer. I pull out my driver’s license and hand it over to
her.
Julie From Tampa looks down at my ID and back up at me. I stand
mesmerized at how only her eyeballs move and the sheer disdain with
which they laser themselves into me.
“Oh, sorry. My Korean name, the one on my license, is Yoo-Jin Lee.” I
swallow the lump lodged in my throat. “I’ve been meaning to change it
officially on my license and everything when I turned eighteen, but I
haven’t gotten around to it yet. It gets confusing. I’m usually much more
organized than this. So much so that people find it annoying. But officially
changing one’s name feels kinda monumental, ya know? Anyways, I’m
flying to New York City…for an internship. It’s my first. I just graduated.
I’m going to junior college in the fall. It’s the smart financial decision for
me right now.”
Her eyeballs make their move again, rolling up to look directly at me,
and then continuing upward toward her forehead, making her lashes flutter,
screaming without words that she well and truly could not care less.
Right. Busy airport, irritated airline worker, not exactly the best place for
me to break out into my nervous habit of oversharing. I force an awkward
smile.
“Just the facts, Jessica,” my mom always says when I get sidetracked.
“You sound smarter if you just speak the facts.”
This is a huge moment and I’m not going to ruin it by causing a ruckus at
the airport. It’s my first time flying alone. My first time living without my
parents. I’ve saved up enough money from my after-school job to
supplement the pennies I’ll make from the internship and hopefully survive
a summer in New York City.
If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. At least, that’s what I hear.
And, best of all, there will be no overprotective father looking over my
shoulder. It’ll be good for us both. I need to grow and make my own
decisions, good and bad. And he needs to learn to let me go, his only child,
his baby girl.
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