The Thing About Love by Kim Karr

Author:Kim Karr [Karr, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Thing About Love
Publisher: Kim Karr
Published: 2018-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures

JAKE ~ SIXTEEN YEARS EARLIER

IT WAS TUESDAY.

I hated Tuesdays.

Hated them ever since my father moved out three years ago and used his day off as his visitation day.

Rory was too young to know the difference. She thought it was fun when Dad came over and took us to school and then picked us up and brought us out to dinner.

I hated it.

Hated him.

For leaving us.

For leaving us with her.

Monica Alexander Kissinger.

Our mother, and completely incompetent.

My father worked at New York Presbyterian Hospital in the city and recently moved from Connecticut to the city to be closer to work. He also refused to let us come live with him. Well, he hadn’t exactly refused. He was working on that, but the laws regarding custody weren’t that easy, or so he’d said.

And then there was the fact that Monica was a well-known socialite with connections and was fighting him tooth and nail.

Whatever.

All I knew was that Monica was passed out in her bedroom, and I was the one getting Rory ready for school.

So he could fuck himself!

Pissed off that Monica wouldn’t even get out of bed and I had to deal with all the shit that was his responsibility, I texted him a message and told him not to come. That Monica had insisted on taking us early to meet the teachers since school had just started back up and didn’t want to have to see him.

That was a big, fat lie. Not the not wanting to see him part. Monica loathed him. But the part about school. I didn’t even think she’d ever set foot in either of our schools or knew what grade we were in, or even where our schools were for that matter.

I looked around at the mess in the kitchen and heard the stumbling on the stairs. Monica had come down looking peaked and a mess. She rushed to the sink where she vomited. Looking over at me, she said something I couldn’t understand.

I didn’t care enough to ask her to repeat it. “I can get us both to school,” I barked, and walked away, assuming she was apologizing again for her bad behavior.

The thing was I’d been covering up for Monica my whole life, and I was tired of it. I’d been filling in, doing what she was supposed to do, and keeping it to myself. Which was why I was in the place I was.

I got Rory on the bus, and then walked to school. I was early and hit the basketball court for a not so friendly game of pick up.

When the bell rang, we all hustled inside.

I glared at the teacher when she returned my paper with an F. “See me after school, Jake. I want to discuss this with you.”

I flung the paper onto the floor. “Don’t bother. I really don’t give a shit.”

She stood with her mouth opened and pointed to the door. “Principal’s office, now!”

Whatever.

I took my time walking to the office and realized what a dumbass thing that was to do.

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