Summer with My Sisters by Holly Chamberlin

Author:Holly Chamberlin [Chamberlin, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-06-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 45

Evie looked at her image in the mirror by the front door and adjusted the tortoiseshell sunglasses Daisy had given her the day before. Evie had lost her one pair and Daisy had insisted she take hers. She had been so nonchalant about it, too. “I have, like, a bazillion pairs, no worries.” Would she have said something else if she knew the truth? Would she have seen giving Evie a pair of her sunglasses as an act of charity, not as an act of friendship? Would knowing that Evie was a homeless runaway change the way Daisy felt about her? Of course it would.

Evie took off the sunglasses and put them on the little table under the mirror. It was so much worse once having had stuff and then losing it all, than never having had stuff to begin with. Now, when things in the Lost and Found box at The Clamshell went unclaimed after a week, Evie took them before any of the other employees could, even if it was something for which she didn’t have an immediate need. You never knew when a hair band or a sun visor or a half-used bottle of sunblock might come in handy. In such a short space of time she had gone from being a kid whose every need and most desires were met by adults to a person who had to think hard to anticipate every possible necessity—forget about desires—and, in spite of her inexperience, find some way to meet those necessities. She wasn’t even sure a sixteen-year-old brain was physically able to function like an adult’s!

Still, she couldn’t afford to feel sorry for herself. Other people had it worse than she did. Look at all those people in parts of the world that were torn apart by war every few years. Her situation was heaven compared to theirs and she had to remember that. Because if she did succumb to self-pity she was afraid she would start to make big mistakes and poor judgments, and worst of all, be found out. And what then? Be sent back to her aunt and uncle? Be put into foster care? Be returned to her father, wherever he was?

Evie sank onto the couch. At least Nico had a television and complete with Roku, too, so she was able to pass the time after work and before she went to bed watching old French language movies and reruns of Psych. It was great good luck, given Nico’s limited book collection and the fact that Evie had no access to the Internet unless she used the computer in the public library, but there was a strict limit to the time you were allowed and it wasn’t like the library was just next door to The Clamshell. And even if it were right next door she wouldn’t be able to check out books or DVDs because she didn’t have a library card! Without Nico’s television she thought she might go mad, alone with her own thoughts.

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