Carrie Pilby

Author:Caren Lissner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Back home, the sun is shining in and making square patterns on my rug. I hang up my coat and lie down and curl up in the spot. It’s warm there. I used to do this all the time when I was four, find a sunny spot and curl up in it. I had a cat that liked to do that, too. It liked to come and lie in the sun next to me. It was black, and its name was Midnight. We were supposed to take care of it for a month for friends, but the friends ended up being gone three months, so I started considering it my cat. But then one day I came home from school and it was gone. Its owners had picked it up. I felt lonely being the only one in the sun spot.

After I regroup on the rug, I go to the video store. I haven’t made progress on the classic film list lately. I stroll around, and eventually I come upon Network. But it has taken me a half hour to find something I want to see. I worry that they won’t keep making movies quickly enough to keep up with my lonely nights.

I also manage to find Out of Africa. I take them home, lie in bed on my stomach and watch them back to back.

When Africa’s over, I’m groggy. It’s dark. I look out the window and something startles me.

There are Christmas lights around the Guarinos’ window across the street! We haven’t even hit Thanksgiving yet, and they’ve already started to hang Christmas decorations. But what’s nice about it is it’s an unselfish gesture. The lights are meant for Tom and Jocelyn’s neighbors, not for themselves. They’re telling the rest of us Merry Christmas without a sound.

Maybe the season will put me in a good mood for a change, instead of a stagnant, bland one. Maybe Tom and Jocelyn will have a party for their neighbors and I’ll get to know the people around me.

I’m glad the holidays are coming. I don’t know what I’ll do for Christmas, except see my father, but that in itself will be nice. Holidays are a chance to be kiddish again.

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