The Mud Sisters by Edie Claire

Author:Edie Claire [Claire, Edie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edie Claire
Published: 2012-09-02T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Jamie felt tired. Bone tired. She leaned her head back against the car’s headrest, her eyes drifting idly over the architectural mishmash of college buildings that filed by outside her window. She would have been content to go straight back to the garage apartment and take a nap, but since Teagan’s phone call, Eric seemed to have been seized with new determination. He wanted Jamie to remember more, that was clear. He just didn’t want her to remember anything else about him.

“Think about walking around with a backpack on your shoulder,” he suggested. “Or picture yourself late for class, running, trying not to slip on the ice. Something around here’s bound to ring a bell. It would be better if we could walk some of these streets, but you’re obviously not up to that.”

Jamie said nothing. She shifted in her seat, trying to stop the aching in her leg bones. The heavy feeling wasn’t coming from any one place; she ached all over. She was weaker than she had realized, and it bothered her.

“Jamie?” Eric prompted after another long spell of silence. “Is something wrong?”

“I’m just tired,” she lied.

“Do you want to go home now?” he asked, sounding disappointed.

She turned her head to the side and looked at him, wondering at his motivation. Most likely, he was anxious to be rid of her, and he knew that the return of her memory would be the best and quickest route to her departure from both his garage and his life. But maybe there was more. Maybe whatever Teagan said on the phone had worried him… and he did still care.

She chose to look on the bright side. “No,” she answered, sitting up a little. She cleared her throat and looked out the window more purposefully. “I’ll give it another shot. I remember being at Vermelli’s after you left. I even halfway remember working with Kirsten. I’m thinking I started school not too long after I got fired.”

The face of a nameless manager popped vividly into her mind, his face glowering with rage. Like most of the Vermelli’s managers, he was a college graduate paid at least twice her salary. He was also a complete incompetent with no administrative ability, little common sense, and the social skills of a fourth grader, and she had responded to his expletive-filled reprimand by flipping him off.

I don’t need this lousy job anyway!

Jamie smirked. Yes, she was definitely already set for school the day she had burned her bridges at Vermelli’s. She wasn’t that stupid.

“I remember wanting to be a manager,” she confessed. “Walking back into Vermelli’s and telling all those morons everything they were doing wrong. The managers never listened to the wait staff, you know. They thought they didn’t need to. But they missed so many opportunities…”

Her voice drifted off as she became lost in thought. When she realized Eric was smiling at her, her mind trained back to the present. “What?”

“You were always brainstorming something or other,” he explained. “If not how to do things better at the restaurant, then how you were going to make your million.

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