Not Suitable For Family Viewing by Vicki Grant

Author:Vicki Grant [Vicki Grant ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781443400138
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada

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Tuesday, 10:30 a.m.

You, You and Mimi (rerun)

“The Look of Love.” Mimi’s personal stylist, Lucy Grant, gives desire-inducing fashion tips for the woman in love.

I get up. I wash my hair. I pop in my contacts and slap on a bit of mascara. I put on that turquoise shirt and those new jeans Anita got me. They fit perfectly. I love Anita.

I ride to the library in a daze. It’s amazing I find my way there. I don’t pay attention at all. I’m completely in my head, in yesterday, on the beach, in the van, with Levi. When I realize I’m talking to myself, I just laugh. Levi would laugh at me for doing something like that.

I lean my bike up against the railing, then try the library door. It’s locked. The sign says, Open: 1–5. I’ve got half an hour to wait.

It doesn’t bother me. The sun’s managed to come out. It’s almost warm. I flip through the church bulletins just to look like I’m doing something other than thinking about Levi. I try to remind myself that he’s a Charming Billy but it doesn’t do much good. I keep hearing him say, I was going to kiss you…, and I end up doing this full body smile.

I glance again at that picture of Mom as a kid. I think of the beach and the Ingrams and the Bisters, then I think of Mom and Dad and me together in that old cabin doing jigsaw puzzles. That makes me think of being on that plane with Mom when we played cribbage all the way to Buenos Aires as if she didn’t have another thing in the world to do. Then I remember the time she bought me a book about bodily fluids that she thought was disgusting but was exactly what I wanted and how sweet she always is with Grandpa even when the nurses aren’t around and I end up doing something I haven’t done in ages.

I call her.

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