Saving Everest by Sky Chase

Author:Sky Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wattpad Books
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

27

Beverly

My mother didn’t actually come home until six o’clock the next morning. The day before I’d had to nurse her back to health after she experienced a hangover more terrible than usual. I knew that she was just going to go back out again, but I couldn’t watch her suffer.

“So, tell me about this guy you’ve been dating,” she said as I handed her the coffee I always made before school. The mug almost fell from my grasp. I hadn’t mentioned Everest to her, so how was it that she could have possibly known?

I decided to play it cool. “Just friends.”

Her eyebrow quirked up and her lips pursed in disbelief. “You don’t think I know what that means? I had ‘just friends,’ too, Beverly.”

“No, Ma, we are literally just friends.”

“Mmm-humm. Why don’t you invite him for Thanksgiving?” my mother said. “Put your eyes back in your head.”

“I don’t think he wants to eat Japanese takeout for Thanksgiving.”

My mother could cook, but for the past few years she’d just been ordering takeout. When I was younger, she used to do it really big, though, food far beyond the capacity of our table flooding in.

“I’ll cook.” She shrugged nonchalantly. “I have been known to cook. Remember when you were five? The turkey almost fell off the table, it was so full.”

“Seriously?” I chuckled, happiness and disbelief shooting through me.

“Yes, girl, now go to school and invite your lover boy over for Thanksgiving.”

She ruffled my hair before leaving the kitchen.

“Hey, Ma?”

She poked her head back inside. “What’s up?”

“Has any mail come in for me?”

Yesterday there were two rejections from a couple of the many colleges that I’d applied to. I couldn’t tell her, but I was disappointed, and worried that I wouldn’t get in anywhere.

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