I'm with Stupid by Elaine Szewczyk

Author:Elaine Szewczyk [SZEWCZYK, ELAINE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000
ISBN: 9780446537766
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

“This is quite a shock,” my mother says as soon as he’s gone. “This is the last thing I expected when I showed up here.” She snatches the pack of cigarettes William left on the table and puts them in her purse. Damn! Cigarettes are expensive. I assure her it isn’t what it looks like. (It’s worse, for a slew of reasons. And here I am, a grown woman treated like a child by her mother, having to lie about all of them.) I promise her that I am not sleeping with William and that he certainly is not living at my place. My father lifts the cover off the stove. He’s making sure the pilot light is on. He asks if I met William on the trip. I tell him that, yes, William and I met on the trip. I really hope he doesn’t ask about the cultural exchange program. I’m out of strength.

“So he’s South African?” my mother asks.

“He is,” I nod nervously. “Hence the accent.” My father replaces the stove cover, confident that I’m not dying of gas poisoning. “I’m surprised he’s not black,” she responds. I point out that there are both white and black people in South Africa. She folds her arms and observes that William is very tall. When she asks if everyone in South Africa is as tall I shake my head no. I don’t think so. “Sure is a looker,” she adds. He is that.

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