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05:39 PM

Sweet! I get to start off the new chapter! You know what that means....new charcter!! =3

CHAPTER TWO

Grandma Iris passed me the plate of crepes. I accepted them and tried not to look toward the door where I knew two large suitcases stood, ominously. My mother was coming. I looked at the two crepes I’d piled onto my plate. I knew I wouldn’t finish them, but I put the jam and fruit on them anyway, for Grandma Iris’s sake. The breakfast table was silent. I was halfway done when there was a single honk from a car horn. Grandma Iris quietly placed her fork and knife down on the table. She stood and took her plate to the sink. Nobody moved. It was almost as though the horn hadn’t really sounded; but we knew we were lying. Grandma Iris left the room, and I heard the front door open and the screen door close. Dad finished his crepe and I pushed my last two bites away. He stood and took the plates to the sink. I left the kitchen. As I passed by the living room, I looked out through the lace curtains. A gray sedan was parked in the driveway underneath a sky that threatened rain. My eyebrows knit together. Gray was an ugly color.

My backpack was still upstairs, and I climbed those stairs at a deliberate snail’s pace. Hanging along the wall above the treads were photographs, both old and new, of family and friends. My favorite was the picture of me with my friends from third grade. We grinned, some of us with front teeth missing, from the prison of that glossy sheet of paper dressed in our soccer uniforms. There was me in the middle, pigtails and a tooth missing on top, Cassie Newly on my left, Jena O’Riley next to her, Heather Long on my right, and Margarette Dumas on the end. The photo always made me wish for the old days; the days before Margarette’s family was driven away and my parents divorced. I smiled wistfully as I passed by the image and briefly touched my smiling naïve face.