Brave Girl, Quiet Girl: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde [Hyde, Catherine Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Molly: Special Delivery

I thought about going back, but I didn’t go back.

I don’t mean to that awful foster family, because I never thought about going back there, not even one time and not even for a second. But I thought about going back to that lady cop and asking her to call my social worker and see if she could put me someplace better.

I never did, because I was afraid I was in trouble for running away, plus I was afraid nobody would believe me and everybody would believe that terrible lady, and they’d send me back to her, and then I hate to even think how much trouble I’d be in.

It was cold without Bodhi, and I’d been sleeping by myself in the cold for maybe a week. I know people think it never gets cold in LA, but they don’t know. If they don’t live there, they don’t know, and if they do live there they still don’t know, because at night in the winter they’re inside their house.

As soon as it got the tiniest bit light, I’d go out on the street and start picking up bottles and cans, because I wanted to use as little of Bodhi’s money as I possibly could—partly because it needed to last for nearly three months, and partly because it was his. It was one thing to eat off it if I needed it, but that didn’t mean I was supposed to sit around on my butt all day like a slug and just waste it. He spent months saving up that money so maybe we could get some kind of place. Just a cheap room at a weekly motel, maybe, where we’d have a shower and a heater and a bed.

But he was right, what he said to me at the jail. He was kidding himself, and I knew that was true because even at the really cheap weekly motels you wouldn’t be able to stay much more than a week for around two hundred dollars.

I hated to even think about what he might’ve done to get that kind of money, so that was another good reason to spend it as slow as possible.

Besides, if you’re not going to walk around looking for stuff to recycle, then what the hell would you do all day? It’s not like I had a TV set or a bunch of fun hobbies.

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