Caught In A Jam by Lila Felix

Author:Lila Felix [Felix, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

~~~

“I tell you, I don’t know what’s going on with kids these days. I saw a girl with pink hair at the grocery store the other day.” She pointed her chicken salad weighted fork at me as she spoke.

I was up to my eyebrows in my mother’s bullshit over breakfast the next morning. “So, what part is offensive, Mom? That people have pink hair or that they dared go to the same grocery store as you? Wait, let me guess, people with pink hair shouldn’t need groceries. They probably are just freeloaders anyway, right?”

She scoffed and rolled her eyes at me, “Really Journey, don’t be dramatic. That’s not what I was saying at all.” There were a few seconds of silence so I pressed her, still angry at finding out about her lying to Nixon.

“Yeah mom, like when Nixon called and asked you if I was in town and you told him I was still at Duke. We all spend our time shaping your words into a script out of The Young and the Restless.”

She pressed her hand to her heart, “I swear you never talked back when you were a teenager and I thought we’d moved past it. Well, I won’t stand for it one more second.” She flicked her wrist to the waitress and when she got the check, paid it with cash and then left without another word.

My mother was flat out challenged.

I went to work and the rest of the week went by quickly, the summer schedule filled with water days and different field trips. Nixon had come to see me Tuesday night on his way to dinner with the rest of the Black family. He’d come in, kissed me quickly and then left again. And then he ran back in before I could close the door, repeated the kiss, this time a lot more than a peck and flashed out again.

Silver and I had a girls’ night in on Friday night with pizza and Nicholas Sparks’ movies. We spent most of the night buried in Kleenex, but everybody needs to cry once in a while.

Saturday I second and third guessed on what to wear to the roller derby thing. Silver said to wear jeans and a tank top so that’s what I did. I wore some old, worn out Levi’s from high school that somehow fit me better than they did in school. I threw on a black tank top and some purple Chucks. I left my hair down, with curls fairly tame. I checked online for roller derby rules so I wouldn’t look like a complete idiot, but some were fairly confusing, so I gave up.

I walked into the rink. Immediately I was almost knocked out by the smell of feet and old skates. I’d bought my ticket online so I showed the guy at the ticket counter my phone and he stamped my hand with a roller skate with wings and shooed me into the thicket.

I immediately spotted the pint-sized girl I so wrongly pegged as Nixon’s wife.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.