Plum Upside Down by Valerie Comer

Author:Valerie Comer [Comer, Valerie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
Goodreads: 25966101
Publisher: GreenWords Media
Published: 2015-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Chelsea helped Rosemary set up a fourth folding table in what had once been Zach’s bedroom. Tables lined the perimeter of the small room with one in the middle.

“There,” the older woman said with satisfaction. “Now I can sort everything out to which child it pertains.”

“Everyone’s coming for Thanksgiving?” That didn’t give Rosemary and her much time to sort a lifetime of memories.

“Everyone but Liz.” Rosemary’s eyes clouded. “I haven’t had an email from her in several weeks. I know the Internet is spottier in Thailand than here, but...”

Chelsea gave the older woman a squeeze. How could the unknown Liz not realize what a treasure she had in her parents? If Chelsea didn’t have a great family of her own, she’d adopt this one in a heartbeat. As it was, her parents and younger brother were making the trek to Idaho for the holiday, too. She hadn’t seen them since her move in early September, but they texted, Skyped, or emailed often.

“Anyway. Thanks for giving me a hand today.” Rosemary looked around the sparse room. “Zachary and Jo have taken the last of his things over to the log cabin. That gives us at least part of a table to set items any of the kids might want.” She sighed. “We will be carrying a lot of boxes up these stairs and back down again, but there just isn’t room to leave everything set up on the main floor. Not with all the supplies Steve needs.”

“It’s fine. We can do this.”

“Keanan said he’d be over later to carry the heavy ones. That boy is a gem.”

Chelsea’s heart caught. “Right. Where do you want me to start?”

“Cindy and Heather’s room is next door. Pictures off the walls, things out of the drawers, boxes off the shelves in the closets.” Rosemary bit her lip. “This is going to be difficult.”

“I’m sure.” Chelsea eyed the older woman uncertainly. She could hardly stand the thought of her own parents downsizing, but it was inevitable sooner or later. Wasn’t it? After all, both she and Sierra had left home, and Jacob had all but moved out.

She went into the next room and lifted pictures off the walls. Bits of wallpaper came off when she removed posters held on with yellowed tape. A bulletin board still covered in teenage photos came next. She carried everything to Rosemary.

“If the girls wanted these, wouldn’t they have taken them already?” Rosemary let out a long breath. “The posters can go in the recycling box, I guess.”

Chelsea spent two hours carrying assorted items from various rooms for Rosemary’s judgment. The older girls’ room had been stripped of everything but the double bed and an empty dresser. Floral wallpaper had faded around the brighter spots where things had hung on the walls.

Liz’s room, smaller than Chelsea’s walk-in closet in Portland, held more mementoes. Chelsea watched Rosemary blink back tears as she arranged the items on Liz’s table.

“Tell me about Liz.” Maybe talking would be like therapy.

“How old are you, dear?”

“Twenty-six.”

Rosemary nodded.

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