The Holly Hoax by Grey Olyve

Author:Grey, Olyve
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE: NAKHYLA

“I need you to go to the store for me,” my mom says as she pulls out a list from her purple robe pocket and holds it over to me.

I stare at the crumpled paper. “You were waiting for me to come down, yeah?” I ask, raising a brow at her. The damn list looks like it could cover the entire neighborhood’s holiday shopping.

“You know just because you’re visiting doesn’t mean you're exempt from doing errands for me,” she says, bopping me on the nose with her little list before dangling it in front of my face until I take it from her.

“I suppose I’m paying as well?”

“Since you’re so kindly volunteering,” she says, planting a kiss on my cheek before moving back toward the living room where I can hear the TV.

We’d already eaten breakfast this morning but I’d had to go back upstairs to get dressed. Harrison, who seems to be a morning person, had already been dressed before breakfast. I don’t even know what time he got up this morning. All I know is when I got up at ten, he’d already been out of the room.

I’d found him in the garage with my dad, helping him tinker around on the old mustang that he keeps inside. They’d been laughing and chatting like old friends.

Moving to the door that leads to the garage, I step inside. “Hey, I need to steal your friend,” I tell my father, pointing a finger at Harrison.

Dad frowns, “I suppose I could let you borrow him for a couple hours,” he says before shaking his head. “You know your brother never was into this sort of thing, so I’m enjoying finally having a son who can help out.”

And I can hear the sincerity in his tone and that does something to me.

What is my dad going to think when I suddenly call saying that Harrison and I have divorced?

It’d be easy enough to keep it from them for a few months, but I suppose when they ask to talk to him when they call me, that could raise a whole bunch of problems.

Maybe I could put it on a three way call sometime and fool them into thinking that we’re together.

Harrison seems like someone who would be a good friend to have once this is all over anyway, and considering that he agreed to this whole crazy thing in the first place, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind maybe helping me out every now and then, at least until I get the real courage to tell my parents that our fake marriage is over.

But what if I come home again within the next few months?

It's not a question I would have had to worry about a couple of days ago, seeing as I rarely come home.

But coming home this time… I miss it. Or at the very least I miss all the people that I grew up with, my parents, my friends.

And clearly, I’ve been so far out of the loop. I mean, how else could I miss out on the fact that one of my oldest friends committed suicide.

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