The Book of Promises by Tammy Bird

Author:Tammy Bird [Bird, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Molly: Pick you up in five.

Like nothing happened. Spencer shook her head and grabbed her backpack. Neither said a word about the previous afternoon.

Chapter Sixteen

The night before her birthday, Spencer fell asleep alternating among texts with Jordan and Jonnie and Deja. Her thumbs were tired, but her heart was full. Molly may not care about her eighteenth birthday, but her new circle of friends cared very much. Jordan even tried to get the day off so he could go with the coding club to the competition, but it didn’t work out. It would be just her and Deja, which was fine with Spencer. She was looking forward to focusing on the team.

The next morning, her nose woke up before the rest of her was ready. She was dreaming of Clarian, and people of all shapes and sizes, of all genders, sitting cross-legged in a circle in Jonnie’s dorm room. She was in the middle of the circle, laughing. Jonnie was reminding her that she was important and worthy of her own dreams.

She stretched. There may not be a surprise party or special escapade designed for her by Molly, but her nose told her family tradition would still be there.

Cinnamon yawned next to her. His cat breath mixed with the smell of her mom’s chocolate chip pancakes and warm maple syrup. “Eww. Get away,” she said, giving the cat a playful push and a quick scratch before she headed for the shower.

Today was all about pancakes for breakfast and enchiladas for dinner. Every year, for as long as either twin could remember and regardless of their monetary standing or what else the day held, their mom made sure their favorites were served on their special day. For the magical eighteen, she offered to change things up in any way they wished, but neither wanted the day to be any different. Spencer and AJ may not have much in common other than sharing April 21 as their born day, but on this they agreed. Pancakes weren’t pancakes without chocolate chips, and a birthday wasn’t a birthday until the last enchilada was consumed. After dinner, she and AJ would each get one gift. It would be something they had mentioned wanting some time throughout the year, usually something forgotten long before their birthday rolled around.

The ritual was the one thing Molly didn’t own in Spencer’s life. Any party or additional gathering was left to the girls to decide, but not this.

Molly tried to change the ritual. She thought Spencer’s mom should let them have a big party and should ask each twin what they wanted specifically, but Spencer’s mom put her foot down. Birthdays were for celebrating life and personalities, not for getting lost in a sea of people and being given something you already knew you were getting. Spencer told Molly she was disappointed, but secretly, she was glad her mom put her foot down.

Spencer dried quickly and slipped into black jeans and an orange, school-embossed polo. She eyed her neon-orange Chucks. That’s what she wanted to wear, but the decision of the team was to wear black.

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