Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares

Author:Ann Brashares [Brashares, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-679-60509-6
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

I had seen birth and death,

But had thought they were different.

—T. S. Eliot

There was a list 119 items long of the things Carmen was doing. There was a list one item long of the things she wasn’t doing. And it was the second list she thought of more.

She’d put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn’t see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything.

Sometimes she held the envelope, felt its weight, shook it, tried to guess its contents. Sometimes she studied Tibby’s writing and wondered if she’d been in a hurry when she’d addressed it. Sometimes she carried it with her from place to place. The one thing she didn’t do with it was open it.

Until the night she came home from drinks with her publicist, having had a gin and tonic and two glasses of wine on an empty stomach.

She’d eaten so little for three days in a row, she felt fierce and impermeable. She hadn’t said or thought anything substantial in over a week, so she felt shallow. And Jones wasn’t home, so she felt sort of like an adult. She felt like nothing could hurt her. Or she felt like nothing could hurt her for a few more drunken minutes, at least.

She got the envelope out of her underwear drawer and pulled it open. Hit me with your best shot, she thought, so shallow she could only think in Pat Benatar lyrics. She dumped the contents out on the bed.

To her amazement an iPhone dropped out. She looked it over quickly. It was the newest kind, with the biggest memory, the fastest processing, the better camera with video. It was exactly the one she’d been yearning to get but hadn’t, because she wasn’t eligible for an upgrade yet and it cost six hundred bucks. Here she’d been girding to have her heart broken more and instead she got an iPhone.

There was a brief note with it.

Carma,

Brian got this for me and I have no use for it, but I thought you might.

Love,

Tibby

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