The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard

Author:Joyce Maynard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312283698
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

But it was Wendy who’d come out of her room then. I can’t believe you two, she said. Plotting behind my back to wipe my real father out of my life.

I wasn’t plotting, her mother said. I was just trying to be practical and consider what would be best for you if anything ever happened to me. And it wasn’t Josh who was thinking any of this. It was me.

You’ll never stop hating my father, Wendy said. Just because things didn’t work out with him, you expect me to hate him like you do. You want to erase him from my life because you erased him from yours.

That’s not what your mother was saying, Josh said. But I think we should leave this topic alone. It wasn’t a good idea.

Oh, fine. Never mind the part about sneaking off and signing all these legal documents to cancel out my real identity. We’ll just keep going the way things have been, pretending the first four years of my life never happened. She was holding her clarinet at the time. Now she was shaking it.

Why don’t you imagine for a second what it would be like if you weren’t around all of a sudden, Josh, and some other guy came along and wanted to adopt Louie? He’s four years old, too. Seems to me you’re fairly important in his life. Don’t you think he’d mind if Roberto or Omar or mom’s boss or somebody decided to make him their kid?

I never said it was a good idea, Josh said very quietly. Let’s just drop it, okay? I’m sorry. He turned back to stirring something on the stove.

Oh, Wendy, her mother said. You break my heart.

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