Shhh...Mack's Side by Jettie Woodruff

Author:Jettie Woodruff [Woodruff, Jettie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00MYDIA12
Published: 2014-08-30T23:00:00+00:00

I tried to talk myself rational on an hourly basis. Some things I did made me wonder what the hell I was doing? Like Cara. I mean the doll. I caught myself cradling her, rocking back and forth, humming several times. They were actions of an insane person I knew, but the feelings and emotions I had for that doll were real. I felt them. I felt the pain she felt of being left behind without so much as a goodbye. She didn’t deserve that. She was just a baby, a tiny, little, helpless baby.

Other times, I’d catch myself drawing and drawing with the bag of broken crayons. I stood back, staring at the childlike artwork, knowing I did it without remembering. There were trees and birds, flowers and butterflies. I had been designing a mural for, well, I don’t know how many days. If Mr. Nichols was allowing me to bathe every three days as he had been. This would be nine days, or was it twelve? It didn’t matter anyway. What was time? What was the point in all of it?

I kissed Cara on top of her sleeping little head and stared out my window. I hoped he came. I really wanted a bath. Cara needed one, too. No. Not Cara. I set her down on my bed. She was sleeping anyway. I shouldn’t hold her while she slept. It would spoil her.

Thinking about the time, when time meant where and when to be at practice, a party, the mall, the movies, or Gia’s house, I stared toward the clearing. That was when time was important. Now it was nothing but a race. A race for deadlines, flights, work days, traffic, and cabs. Hurrying through life, that’s what it had become. And my finish couldn’t come fast enough. I was glad to be off the rat race. I liked it here. Cara liked it here, too. She seemed to be happier here.

I sighed, thinking about it all, mostly her. She was all that mattered, right?

It was our first Christmas together after I had met AJ. He was going one way and I was going another. I didn’t want him around my family yet. I wasn’t sure I ever would, but I was working on it. My mother kind of knew I was seeing someone, she just didn’t know we’d sort of moved in together.

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