A Winter Wonderland by Daniela Reyes

Author:Daniela Reyes [Reyes, Daniela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951851033
Publisher: Torres Press LLC
Published: 2019-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

There was a knock on her door.

“Come in,” Holly said. She sat up on her bed, closing the book she’d been trying to focus on. She’d been staring at the same paragraph for the last half hour.

Her dad stood in the doorway.

“You okay?” he asked.

He closed the door behind him, the way Gloria had when she’d still lived at home.

“Peachy,” Holly said.

“Can I sit?” He pointed to her desk chair.

“Sure.”

The two sat in silence.

Her dad fidgeted in the chair.

“Somethings up. So you can tell me, or you can keep hiding out in your room until your mom notices.”

Holly loved her mom, but she had a way of not letting go of things, pushing an issue even when it got resolved.

“Did Gloria say something?”

Her dad shook his head. “I haven’t heard from my oldest daughter in a week. So, no.”

“To be honest, I don’t want to talk about it.”

"Okay," her dad said. "Then, how are you feeling? You don't have to tell me anything else."

“I feel like I did the right thing, but it ended up hurting the wrong person. And also confused because Jack’s acting strange.”

“Who’s Jack?”

“A guy from work, technically my boss, but not really.”

“Do you like Jack?”

“No.” Holly’s voice cracked when she spoke. “No. Of course not.”

Her dad smiled. “Okay.”

"I don't. He's obnoxious. He acts like everything has to be perfect, or the world's going to end." To be fair, he had told her it was only because it was his last year. Holly's dad didn't need to know that, though.

“He sounds more like he’s trying to do his job.”

Holly didn’t respond because by the look on her dad’s face, she already knew he wouldn’t side with her.

“Is there anything I can do to help you get out of this rut?”

“No,” Holly said. “I think it’s something I have to let pass.”

“Maybe you should go out, get out of the house. Staying in helps Laurel, not you.”

“I don’t think it helps her,” Holly said. “And I have nowhere to go.”

Then she thought about Jack's call before their short conversation. He'd wanted to go volunteer at a toy drive.

"So, you do have somewhere to go?"

Holly sighed. She stared at her phone on her bed. “Maybe.”

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