Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy

Author:Mary McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

LEE: (studio)

Everyone in the room is frozen in discomfort, like they’ve all just realized letting Greg give this toast was a terrible idea. From behind the camera, Harold breaks the tension.

HAROLD WASSERMAN: (video recording)

You bleak motherfucker, this is supposed to be a party.

GREG: (video recording)

Give me a second, Harold. I’m about to land the plane. What I’m saying, Arthur and Maya, is we’re counting on you. Show us how this shit is supposed to work, okay?

To Arthur and Maya.

LEE: (studio)

Everyone in the room lifts their glasses and repeats it after him. My mom touches the glass to her lips, but doesn’t tip it back, and I think, Holy shit. She’s pregnant with me in this video. I’m on this VHS tape.

The room starts to break up into small pockets of chitchat. Greg pours himself another glass of champagne and drinks it in a single gulp. He walks out of the frame, and I think that must be the end of the tape, but it isn’t.

A moment later, Greg comes flying back into the center of the room until he’s staring down at my mom, who’s still sitting on her cushion in the middle of the floor. She looks up at him and he says,

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