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Half an hour later, I'm pounding up the front steps to my childhood
home and throwing open the screen door. I twist the doorknob
and push on the wooden door behind it, expecting it to fall open
with its familiar creak, but I bump against it when it fails to open.
Tears start to slide down my cheeks again as I suddenly realize
that it's locked. Of course it is — we always lock the door in this neighborhood —
and I don't have my keys because they're sitting in my old purse, which is back at
Kent's house.
I lean against the door with a heavy sigh, closing my eyes and letting myself cry
more. It's all just too much —
Suddenly, I fall inwards as the door opens.
“Who...” Janeen says, and then gives a little gasp as I stumble into the house.
“Fay!” she cries, her hands immediately on my arms, steadying me. “Are you all
right? What's —" But as soon as I turn my tear—stained face up to hers, she wraps
me in a hug and holds me close. “Oh, baby,” she coddles, “baby, don’t cry! It's
okay! What's wrong?”
I don't say anything for a little while, just letting my sister hold me tight while I cry
my heart out. She obliges me, shushing me softly and making comfortable noises
until I'm finished. When my tears start to lessen, she gently peels me off her,
crouching down to look in my face. “Fay,” she whispers, shaking her head at me
in
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wonder. “What's wrong? Are you okay?”
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I sniff, wiping at my nose and looking around the house. “Is dad
home?”
She shakes her head. “No, he went out with his buddies. He won't
be back for a while.”
“Good,” I say, nodding. “I don’t want him to know.”
“Know what?” Janeen begs, her eyes going wider with wonder. I can tell she’s as
intrigued as she is worried.
“Come on,” I say, taking her hand and nodding towards the couch. “I'll tell you
everything —"
“Nooo,” she says, digging in her feet and not letting me pull her into the living
room. “With tears like that, we're having this talk over vodka.” She gives me a
wide-eyed look like I'm crazy for wanting to do this sober and I can't help the
little laugh that
bubbles out of me.
“Okay,” I nod, heading into the living room while she goes to the freezer and pulls
out a bottle, starting to mix our drinks. Janeen takes her vodka simply, with a
twist of lemon, but she adds a little orange juice to mine, knowing I need
something sweet to cut the bite. As she works I sink into one corner of our old
couch, taking a deep breath and looking down at the crumpled contract still
clutched in my hand.
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Janeen places our glasses on the coffee table next to us before taking her
familiar spot on the other side of the couch, her back against the arm, our feet
mingling in the space between us. “Well?” she asks. I don’t say anything, just
toss the crumpled paper at her so that it lands in her lap. “What's this?” she
murmurs, unfolding it and frowning.
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“ ATE ”
My engagement to Daniel is over,” I
inform her, my voice dead and
expressionless. She looks up at me in
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towards him. In exchange, you're getting this house. And a beach
house.”
“We're getting a beach house!?” Her eyes go eagerly wide.
But I just purse my lips and glare at her, reminding her that I'm
distraught.
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Oh, yeah,” she murmurs, rolling her
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eyes a little. “So sorry that your fake
engagement to your gay ex ended,
Fay, I was really rooting for you two
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“Janeen!” I whine, kicking her a little. “Can you take this seriously! I'm upset!”
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Okay,” she sighs, and I see real
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apology on her face. “I'm sorry, Fay —
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you're right. It just seems like maybe
this is kind of a sweet deal. I mean, I
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know you weren't pumped about that
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engagement, not really, so what's the
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downside? Is it really dangerous?
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