Drawing Home by Jamie Brenner

Author:Jamie Brenner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Penny stepped out of the pool and wrapped herself in one of Mr. Wyatt’s plush towels. Everything he had was nice. Everything seemed new. It was like being in one of those rich people’s houses on an E! television show.

Except rich people usually didn’t have a bunch of strangers squatting in their mansion. What was with the old lady and Kyle? That’s how she thought of them: the Old Lady and Kyle. Just two more adults to make things complicated and annoying on top of her mother and Angus. When she told her dad about the Old Lady, he seemed really surprised and asked a lot of questions she didn’t know the answers to, like whether her mother had a lawyer. “No way,” Penny said. “Do you think Mom would ever pay for a lawyer?”

She wanted her dad to see the house. And she wanted Mindy and Robin to see it too. She still felt bad about how things had gone down that day at the beach and needed a way to get back on track with them.

Her mother’s tote bag rested next to her abandoned lounge chair. Penny glanced up at the house, then quickly rummaged through the bag to find her mom’s iPhone. She glanced around one more time, and when she was certain she was alone, she snapped photos of the pool and the house and the view of the bay. She grabbed her own beach bag, took out her crappy Motorola (that her mother had never bothered taking away after all), and found Mindy’s and Robin’s numbers. She sent them a series of photos showing off her new house. DNR to this number—not my phone, she warned. Then she erased the threads and put her mom’s phone back.

She couldn’t understand why her mother was so strict about things like screen time. It was the only way to communicate. It was hard enough to keep up with her friends without being in tech jail.

Walking back to the pool, she had the thought that maybe she hadn’t put the phone back. So she turned around and went back to check. And she checked again. And again.

“Penny—what are you doing in my bag?” her mother said.

Busted! “Looking for sunblock,” Penny said.

She didn’t know who was a tougher warden, her mother or her own mind.

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