Some Call It Fate by Sarah Peis

Author:Sarah Peis [Peis, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Sarah Peis
Published: 2020-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

“I’m not putting that in my mouth.”

“Honey, you’re really pale. And your aura hasn’t improved at all. You need the protein,” my mom encouraged me. She was at the stove, making me pancakes after I spent last night in my old room. Sometimes you just needed to go back to your parents’ house to make yourself feel better. And to remember why you moved out in the first place.

“It looks like sludge. And smells even worse.”

“It’s good for you.”

“Still not drinking it.”

My mom sighed but gave up trying to convince me to drink one of her homemade remedies. She was forever experimenting with recipes and making everyone try them.

“Now I know you didn’t tell us everything last night,” she said.

That was because I hadn’t.

“But don’t you want to talk about what’s really bothering you?” she continued.

I most definitely would not. She already thought I was one breakup short of losing it completely. If I told her I’d been repeating past mistakes, she would probably send me to her sister’s commune in California. And that was something I did not want to happen. We had spent every summer there growing up, and it always surprised me that my brother and I turned out somewhat normal. Well, he didn’t, since he was a judgmental ass who refused to talk to me for seducing his best friend. At least those were his last words to me. I may have paraphrased because there was a lot more swearing involved. But fine. I was only his sister.

Mom put a stack of pancakes in front of me. “If you don’t want to talk, at least eat something.”

I eyed the blue pancakes and wondered what was in them. She must have caught my look because she put her hand on my shoulder. A gesture that wouldn’t mean anything good for me. Now I really wanted to know what was in those pancakes.

“I experimented with the batter. It’s vegan, gluten free, sugar free. I put blueberries in to add some flavor but forgot they were in there and mixed it all with the electric mixer. They turned the batter blue. But they’ll be just as good as they would if the blueberries were whole.”

Well, the good news was the color was just from blueberries. The bad news was that she expected me to eat cardboard. I suppressed the sigh that wanted to escape and put two pancakes on my plate. They should document the sacrifices I was willing to make for family peace.

I looked around for the maple syrup but only saw lemons and natural peanut butter. I looked up at Mom, who was still standing next to me, watching me with an encouraging smile.

“I’ll just grab the maple syrup,” I said, pushing away from the table to go look for it.

My mom’s grip tightened, and she pushed me back down. “There’s no maple syrup. We’re going sugar free. If you knew how much damage sugar did to your body, you’d stop buying all those pastries from Rayna’s shop.

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