Being Anti-Social by Leigh K. Cunningham

Author:Leigh K. Cunningham [Cunningham, Leigh K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789810720933
Google: 5ONeLwEACAAJ
Goodreads: 17311801
Publisher: Vivante Publishing
Published: 2012-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

MOTHER CALLED at the cracking of a Sunday dawn to state the obvious—that I was not there. I explained that I had woken during the night and could not get back to sleep so I returned home to watch a movie or two. I made no mention of merlot. Despite the rude awakening, I was pleased that roles had restored and all was right with the world again.

Since I was up early, I called Amber to inquire about the passive Jake, and was the first to learn of their engagement, after just nine months. Amber proposed and Jake accepted. This ruined my day because everyone was in love except for me: Amber and Jake, Lauren and Patrick, Jason and Stephanie, David and Gabby with each other and with Oscar, Kimba and Kenneth and baby Violet. Shannon and Toady were still in love, as were Erin and the Bobmeister, and even Sophie and Adam had momentary lapses of loving, but had Lucinda for all the other times. I was feeling tragic for as Oscar says, “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

I watered the remnants of plant life in my front courtyard then called mother for advice on winter annuals. She recommended pansies, lavender and petunias, and in the background, I heard Shannon suggesting cacti. Thank the good Lord I had left like a thief in the night and missed her post-church morning visit. On the way home from the hospital after seeing Kimba and Violet, I would stop by the garden shop to symbolically replenish my spiny heart.

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