Get Well Soon by Halpern Julie

Author:Halpern, Julie [Halpern, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2009-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

SNACK-ATTACK

Tonight we had a special treat. It was Colby’s fifteenth birthday, and his parents dropped off a big chocolate birthday cake with blue food–colored frosting. I wonder if they put a file in the middle of it (not that there are bars or anything to saw through, although I suppose he could work on the window screens). Not that anyone even knew it was his birthday before they brought the cake, and not like we got to sing “Happy Birthday” to him or even thank him for giving us cake, since the pieces just came around, pre-cut on a tray, to our room. Not that I’m complaining. Cake is cake. There is no other food in the world as consistently pleasing to me, besides pizza. Mmmm—pizza. The staff claims that if enough people earn enough points to move to Level III, we’ll have a pizza party on a Friday night. Oh, to be a Level III. The funny thing is, I have not seen a single person on the floor make it to Level III. They probably rig the points system so that they don’t have to spend the extra $9.99 on a pizza. Anyway—back to the cake story. Sparkle brought around cake and milk to our room, and Sandy scarfed her cake before Sparkle could even leave the room.

“Damn, girl, you act like you’re eating for two!” Sparkle said with a wink. When Sandy told her that she actually was eating for two, Sparkle laughed really loudly and smacked the wall with the palm of her hand. When the eruption subsided, she handed Sandy a second piece of cake! I was quite excited and jealous. Sparkle must have seen the drooly look in my eyes, because she gave me a second piece, too. She was the first adult who has been nice to Sandy about being pregnant.

Did I tell you that some weirdo from the night crew comes into our room every night to tell Sandy that she needs to feed and change Morgan? I’m getting less sleep because of it. The nerve! I didn’t ask to have a baby. On top of Morgan interrupting my sleep, this week a woman has been peeking into our room every single hour during the night. She carries a clipboard and appears to be checking things off, I’m guessing about our sleeping habits. The joke is that every time she opens the door it clicks and leaks in the light from the hallway, so I wake up. Last night she looked at me, awake, and alarmingly asked, “Are you having trouble sleeping?” And I said, “Yes. Some woman keeps opening the door and waking me up.”

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