Joseph Loves Juliette by Lisa Lang Blakeney

Author:Lisa Lang Blakeney [Lang Blakeney, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Writergirl Press
Published: 2019-09-28T23:00:00+00:00

Juliette

Six Years Later

It smells like snow. Like we're headed for a blanket of powder all over the beautiful Philadelphia suburb of Penn Washington. The place where my parents call home, and their parents, and as far as my mother is concerned–the place that our entire family are the founding fathers of.

It’s also the place that I unfortunately have to call home when I’m not away at law school, although my hope is that I never have to move back here permanently.

My parents are in the middle of planning their annual New Year’s Eve party, and my mother is freaking out about the impending snowstorm.

Every year the party gets a little larger, the guest lists grows, the decorations become a little more elaborate, and the hors d'oeuvres a little more expensive. All to impress a house full of people my family does business with or wants to do business with.

Lawyers.

They're a very particular bunch.

Elitists. Drunks. Geniuses. Cutthroats.

Every year, anyone who's anyone in the legal field in the Philadelphia area, comes to our house to brag about what they bought their significant other for Christmas, what their biggest case was for the year, what new car they plan on buying, and what new firm they’re considering working for.

It’s the same boring crap year after year, but it's in our blood. Every Hill for the last three generations has been a lawyer. Everyone but my youngest brother, but he's a court bailiff, so he's still in that world as far as I'm concerned–although my family begs to differ. They give him a lot of flack about his chosen profession. It's probably why they are riding me so hard.

Juliette, when are you going to take the bar?

Juliette, have you been studying?

Juliette, there's never been a Hill who didn't pass the Pennsylvania bar exam on the first try.

Gah!

The only good thing about these parties is that there's going to be lots of liquor. I'm going to need it. The only way not to succumb the rigorous questioning I'm going to have to endure tonight is to get totally and absolutely sloshed.

I walk over to my father who's hanging up some last minute light strings around the gazebo in the back yard.

"I'm not sure why you two don't hire someone to do this for you. You're going to break your sweet old neck if you keep this up, daddy,” I say.

"You make total sense, sweet pea, but you know your mother is a complete control freak. She would just stand there and micromanage whoever she hired, so it's just better if I do it. At least she trusts me." He chuckles.

"I can go get one of the other step ladders and help you out, dad."

"Absolutely not, that's what your brothers are for. You're supposed to be inside doing your mother's bidding. You know the routine."

“Exactly,” I mutter to myself. Then I speak directly to my father. “I know exactly what she wants me to do, and that's why I'm out here.”

"You can't hide from your mom forever.

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