Black Box by Julie Schumacher

Author:Julie Schumacher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780375891168
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2009-01-19T22:00:00+00:00

35

Jimmy called me that afternoon as I was doing my homework. “How are things going so far?” he asked. “How’s the reentry?”

“Okay, I guess.” I carried the phone into my bedroom. “She sleeps a lot.”

“How much is a lot?” I could picture him running the palm of his hand across his hair.

I told him I wasn’t counting the hours. “We just want to put all this behind us.”

“Yeah, that makes sense,” Jimmy said. “Do your parents have to take time off from work this week to stay home with her?”

“What do you mean?” I flopped down on my bed. “She’s going to school. You’ll see her tomorrow. She’ll be on the bus.”

There was a silence. “Going back to school so soon will probably be hard for her,” Jimmy said.

“What else is she going to do?” I asked. “She’s a kid. Kids go to school.”

“Yeah, mostly they do,” Jimmy said. Another silence. “My mother might be willing to talk to your parents.”

I remembered what my mother had said about Marilyn Zenk. “I don’t think my parents want to talk to anyone. Besides, Dora seems fine, mostly. Tired but fine. And my parents seem fine. And I guess I’m fine also.”

“Glad to hear it,” Jimmy said. “Unanimity. Family harmony. Very impressive.”

“Are you making fun of me?” I asked.

“Yeah. Is that going to bother you?”

I thought about it for a minute. “No,” I said. “Probably not.”

“That’s what I like about you,” Jimmy said.

“What?”

“Hang on a second.” I heard him talking to someone—probably his mother. “Okay, sorry,” he said, coming back to the phone.

I wanted to ask him what he liked about me, but I didn’t know how to raise the subject. So I told him I’d see him on the bus, and I hung up the phone.

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