You, with a View by Jessica Joyce EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jessica Joyce
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Women Fiction
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WAKE UP TO TWO MILLION VIEWS.
I don’t know it at first. With my eyes closed, my hand traverses the
obstacle course of cups, food wrappers, and ChapStick tubes on my
nightstand to find my phone. All I want is to know the time.
Or maybe I don’t. From the sunlight piercing my screwed-shut eyelids,
it’s embarrassingly late.
My fingers wrap around the charger cord, and I drag the phone across the
nightstand, knocking the ChapSticks down like bowling pins.
Whatever. Future Noelle can deal with that mess.
I finally get a hand on my prize and illuminate the screen. But instead of
the time, my bleary eyes snag on an avalanche of TikTok notifications. Even
as I blink at the astronomical number, it keeps ticking, growing by five, by
seventeen, by forty-two.
“What the hell,” I croak.
Then I remember: my video.
My already sleep-weak grip fails me, and the phone drops onto my face.
The door flies open at my pained howl. Through watery eyes, I make out
the general shape of my mom. “Noelle, what in the world?”
If this were a sitcom, this is where it would freeze: on me, twenty-eight
years old, rolling around in my childhood bed, blinded in a freak iPhone
accident after going viral on a social media app meant for teenagers.
The only thing that doesn’t make me want to die inside is how many
people have seen this video. My heart skips a beat. Maybe even the right
person.
I knife into a seated position, my fingers pressed against my aching orbital
bone as I fumble for my phone. From the doorway, Mom watches in
bafflement, decked out in Peloton gear instead of a power suit. Must be
Saturday.
“Are you okay?” Brown eyes that match mine slide to the bike in the
corner of the room. On the wall, a neon sign cheers BE AWESOME.
I can tell she’s dying to turn it on. I wish I could tear it down. Nothing like
waking up to aggressive positivity every morning when you’re a grown adult
who had to move back into your parents’ house after getting laid off from a
job you didn’t even like.
“Yes, Mom, I’m great.” I sigh, a headache blooming. “Just dropped my
phone on my face.”
“Sorry, sweetie. Hey! Since you’re up, I’m going to get a quick ride in.”
She says all of this in one breath, already at the bike with her special,
extra-loud shoes in hand. The number of times she’s woken me clacking
across the hardwood these past four months can’t be counted on all my
appendages. It’s not her fault she turned my childhood bedroom into a shrine
to her two-thousand-dollar bike, though. None of us anticipated I’d be here
again.
“Do your thing.” I burrow back under my duvet and pull up my account
on TikTok, my heart pounding.
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