Cassidy Lane by Murnane Maria

Author:Murnane, Maria [Murnane, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2014-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

After breakfast Cassidy enjoyed a long, hot shower, then changed into jeans and a sweatshirt and took her laptop into the kitchen. She loved working at the kitchen table at her parents’ house. It reminded her of being in school, when she’d come home and spread out her books and binders in front of her on that same table every day. When it was cold outside, her mom would light a fire and make her a mug of hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows before preparing dinner. Tyler usually did his homework in his bedroom, but for some reason Cassidy had always liked working at the kitchen table, smack in the middle of everything.

She took a seat, then glanced around the room and felt the memories, good and bad, begin to float up and around her.

The time Tyler broke his arm skateboarding.

The day she mustered the courage to call Jimmy Hanson about the Sadie Hawkins dance—and he turned her down.

The day she got her braces off.

The afternoon she received her acceptance letter to Yale.

The evening of the prom, which she’d spent making cookies with her mom.

The time Patti showed up in tears and said her parents were fighting…again.

As it did on every visit, sitting here as an adult made her remember what life had felt like as a teenager. Though there hadn’t been cell phones, e-mail, or Facebook back then, she imagined the fundamental essence of the teenage experience was still the same: angst.

As though reading her mind, her phone chimed with a text message.

Brandon!

But the message was from Patti. It was a close-up photo of them in their Halloween costumes with the caption:

Don’t sweat the wrinkles. In ten years we will kill puppies to look this young.

She smiled. Ah, Patti.

The text snapped her back into the present, as well as the reality of her adult responsibilities. She set down the phone and got to work on her book, specifically a pivotal scene in which Emma, the ambitious young heroine, begins to realize that despite how hard she’s working to climb the corporate ladder, a career in advertising isn’t making her happy. What does being happy mean? Emma is almost too afraid to ask herself the question because she doesn’t want to know the answer.

About an hour later, her phone beeped with an alarm. Startled, she picked it up.

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