Make Up Break Up by Lily Menon

Author:Lily Menon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Annika wasn’t surprised to only get approximately thirty minutes of sleep that night, which were not only spent upright in her chair on her rickety little balcony but also happened without her permission. It was like her body was trying to shut itself down so her brain wouldn’t keep going around and around in panicked little circles.

Eviction.

Bankruptcy.

Eviction.

The words were a tinny heartbeat in her ears. She heard them when she got home, she heard them as she climbed the steps to her apartment, she heard them as she undressed. She had a feeling she’d never stop hearing them. Sitting on her balcony in the near dark, looking out at the cold city lights, shivering lightly in her T-shirt and boxer shorts, Annika felt like an enormous failure. No one in the world had ever failed this epically. This was it. This could be the end.

She picked her phone off the tiny table next to her and dialed, tears streaming down her face.

“Hello?”

“Daddy?” she said, her voice catching. “I know I missed our dinner Saturday night, but … can I come visit? Tomorrow night?”

A pause while her dad scrambled to understand what was happening; it was clear from his voice that he’d been asleep. “Of course you can,” he said at last. “You can always come home, Ani.”

She closed her eyes and let the tears flow.

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