Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

Author:Kelly Loy Gilbert [Loy Gilbert, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2018-04-09T18:30:00+00:00

“Daniel, what are you thinking?” my mom cries that night when I tell my parents. We’re eating gai lan and leftover noodles from the weekend, and they’re gummy. “We are not borrowing money from your friend! How could you ask him that?”

“I didn’t ask. He offered.”

“I am humiliated that you asked him.”

“I just said I didn’t—”

“I will not have you begging your friends for money. Tell him absolutely not. And you are forbidden from speaking of this with anyone ever again.”

I turn to my dad. “I’ll help pay it back. I’ll get some kind of job and—”

“No. Our decision is final.”

The walls press against me. I force a deep breath. “You can’t do this.”

They exchange a look. When my dad says “Daniel,” it’s a warning.

“It’s one thing if it’s just completely out of your control, but I’m offering a solution that—”

“You will not speak to your parents this way.”

I slump back down in my chair. My heart is pounding and I feel fuzzy and hot, like a hangover. I last forty seconds, maybe, before I can’t help myself. “How did you let things get so bad that—”

“Quiet,” my dad orders.

“But why didn’t you—”

“Quiet!”

He never yells at me, and it feels like being struck. Whatever I might’ve said back dies in my throat. His voice roars against the linoleum floor and old sand-colored paint of the walls, and he stands and points a trembling finger at me.

“You will never bring this up with us again.” His voice is shaking. With anger, I think, but when I meet his eyes I realize I’m wrong: it’s fear. “You don’t understand as much as you think you do and I will not have this. We’re moving. That’s it. You’ll accept it or you won’t, but it’s happening either way.”

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