Notes From the Backseat by Jody Gehrman

Author:Jody Gehrman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Published: 2008-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Signing off from Chateau de Dog Hair,

Gwen

Friday, September 19

5:24 a.m.

Dear Marla,

Okay, I’m writing. Breathing, writing, writing, breathing. If I weren’t carving these words with a ballpoint pen into these pages right now, I’m afraid I’d be carving my initials into Dannika’s little line-free forehead. (Side note: she’s twenty-eight. Why doesn’t she have a single wrinkle?)

I’ll back up a little, tell you what happened. Maybe writing will calm me down and cool this dangerous mood I’m in.

After Mom made hamburgers for Coop and me, offering Dannika a handful of carrot sticks and a bruised apple as her vegetarian option (I was half mortified, half exhilarated by Mom’s rudeness) the issue of sleeping arrangements came up. You and I spent most of our time at your house, of course, since you had a better stereo system and your parental units didn’t fight; then again, yours didn’t speak to each other, but that’s another story. The point is, maybe you don’t remember my Mom’s house much, so I’ll give you a minirefresher course: it’s small. When you factor in the ever-mounting collection of dogs and Steven’s fascination with at-home exercise equipment, it’s a wonder the two of them can even move around in there.

But you know my mom—forever the optimist. I think Coop had her thinking she was Scarlet O’Hara, living in a house with an east and west wing, wearing a satin gown and petticoats. After dinner, she graciously offered to show us to our rooms. I was thinking rooms? Did they slap together an addition since Christmas? Clearly, she was a little befuddled, because she led us down the hallway to my old room, opened the door, and said, “Oh.” I guess at this point it occurred to her that:

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