How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren

Author:Kaya McLaren [McLaren, Kaya]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary Women, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781611735482
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Cassie had taken her mother’s cookbooks off the shelf and was leafing through the pages, mostly looking at pictures, when Jill arrived.

“You look like you’re on a mission,” Jill said.

“I just got to thinking that there’s not a lot I can do, you know? There’s not a lot I can do to make things better now. But I could learn to make really good food, and that would make my life a little better. And it would make Dad’s life a little better, too.”

“Brilliant,” Jill said. “Hey, I had an idea for making things better today, too. I was thinking about how if I helped you win a season pass, it would almost be like my service paid for itself.”

“Talk to me,” Cassie said, which cracked Jill up.

“Does the mountain still have the Dummy Downhill, you know, where you make a dummy on skis and they launch it off the ski jump and whoever’s goes farthest wins a season pass for next year?”

“Why, yes, it does,” Cassie replied, again making Jill laugh. Then they looked at each other with their best cunning and sly expressions and nodded their unspoken pact: They would dominate the Dummy Downhill.

Later that night, after dinner was cleaned up and homework was done, Cassie excitedly sketched ideas for their dummy. It was the first time in a long time she actually felt excited about something, and that it was a project with Jill made it complicated. Cassie wondered whether Jill was replacing her mother so slowly that she didn’t even realize what was happening. And Cassie wondered whether she was letting her. Was it a betrayal to her mom to have fun with Jill? Would she slowly start to forget things about her mother as Jill became a bigger part of her life? She wondered whether she should take a couple steps back from Jill while she figured it out. Probably. But she couldn’t quite bring herself to do it.

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