Resolutions by Lucy Eden

Author:Lucy Eden [Eden, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lucy Eden

Spend More Time With Family

eight

"Grammy!" I called to the empty living room with no response. I was cold, wet, tired, and hungry. For the last three years, I'd been spoiled by Mike's giant pick-up truck and spared the mass transit nightmare that was the ninety-minute journey from Manhattan to Grammy's house in Long Island. After taking a bus and two trains, I had to walk twenty minutes in the freezing cold. The rain started when I had five minutes left in my walk, and I ran the rest of the way. My old bedroom looked exactly the way it did when I left for college eight years ago, and I began to peel off my wet clothes before slipping into an old pair of pajamas. I flopped on the bed and was staring at the ceiling when I heard my grandmother’s voice.

"Janie?" she called, sounding like she was in the kitchen. "Is that you, sweetie?”

“Yeah, it’s me.” I found her standing at the countertop unpacking grocery bags and some boxes. The kitchen looked like the stock room at a food pantry. “Grammy, how did you get all this stuff?”

"Michael, dear." Her back was turned so she couldn't see the color drain from my face.

“Mike was here?” I asked, suddenly wishing I was still in my wet grown-up clothes and not SpongeBob Square Pants pajama bottoms and a My Chemical Romance t-shirt that was too small.

“Is here, sweetie,” she corrected me. “I called him and asked him if he could help me pick up a few last-minute things for Christmas.” She picked up last-minute things, all right, if she were preparing for the last minute before the zombie apocalypse. A man wearing Mike’s boots walked into the kitchen carrying a 24 pack of paper towels stacked on top of a 48 pack of toilet paper that obscured the entire upper half of his body.

“Where do you want these, Grammy?” he groaned and kicked the back door closed with his foot. My heart started to race. Running out of the kitchen before he put down the groceries seemed like a solid plan for a split second, but then I remembered my grandmother already knew I was there. I stood frozen on the spot unsure of what would happen next.

"Just put them down anywhere, sweetie." Mike lowered the packages to the floor and pushed them over to the wall with his foot. He momentarily froze when he noticed me standing in the kitchen and gave me a small smile that didn't reach his eyes and mouthed the word hi. My heart melted and I wanted to run into his arms, but I didn’t. I returned his smile and gave him a small wave. “Jane, don’t just stand there. Help me put away these groceries.”

Snapping out of my Mike-induced trance, I started reaching into bags, pulling out cans and boxes and shoving them into the cabinets.

“I’ll take the heavy stuff to the pantry.” Mike picked up a box of giant cans and walked out of the kitchen.

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