The Reunion by Marisa Mohi & Kathryn Trattner & Marnie Vinge & Collette Carmon

Author:Marisa Mohi & Kathryn Trattner & Marnie Vinge & Collette Carmon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maw See Saw Creative

“You wanna sit up front?” Molly asked Alex as they approached the back of the new-to-them Honda Civic. She glanced at the car, reminding herself that she shouldn’t resent the fact that her entire life got turned upside down, because, for now at least, she had her daughter.

But it was hard. Every time she looked at the Honda, it served as a reminder of all that she’d already lost—and all she had yet to lose.

“Yeah," Alex said with a tiny hint of a smile that temporarily washed away Molly’s financial worries. The pair of them got into the car and Molly turned the ignition. The Honda sputtered to life and she backed out as Alex buckled her seatbelt.

Molly pulled out onto Broadway—a smaller Broadway than she was used to back in Omaha—and turned right. Mid-day October, the street was less busy than after five, but a few cars dotted the lanes, passing Molly going in the opposite direction. Another car, a fine classic black Cadillac, passed them on the left and pulled ahead.

“Nice car,” Molly murmured.

She tried to keep any note of bitterness locked tightly in her chest, not wanting Alex to take on any more of the emotional upheaval of their change in lifestyle than absolutely necessary.

“It looks like the kind of car a villain in a movie drives,” Alex noted aloud, sitting forward in her seat to get a good look at it.

Molly turned on some music—a radio station, she wasn’t sure which—and let it provide a little bit of ambient noise for the pair of them. Going up against silence was easier with a little FM help. A song came on, one that Molly remembered from high school. Alex seemed unphased, not knowing the words or the melody, and it made Molly sad.

Not because her daughter didn’t know the song, but because it signaled the passage of time that had occurred since she’d left her hometown. The memories she associated with it were inaccessible to Alex, not hers at all. Memories of Mark and Molly when things were still good—when they were amazing.

Molly changed the station.

As they passed by many of the old businesses that Molly remembered, she took note of the way that things had changed, too.

Many of the signs and marquees were familiar. A general store here, a pharmacy there, a liquor store on the right, and a church on the left. The standard arrangement in the Bible Belt.

But as they got further from the center of town, new businesses seemed to have sprung to life in Molly’s absence. In the corridor that used to have nothing but a field, there was now a strip mall. One on each side of the road, in fact.

The Cadillac that had pulled ahead switched lanes, getting in front of Molly.

She glanced at Alex, who seemed content, and that was about as much as Molly could ask for the time being.

Something caught her eye.

A giant marijuana leaf, bright green, over the entrance to a shop in one of the strip malls.

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