The Foreseeable Future by Emily Adrian

Author:Emily Adrian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

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Overturned in the hallway was a plum-colored suitcase.

At some point in the late nineteen-nineties my parents had dubbed this particular piece of luggage “Old Purple,” and in my mind it had always been the emblem of both family vacations and those unsettling periods of time when Mom traveled alone, abandoning the rest of us.

Old Purple had flown to Italy in March. Most likely, the suitcase had not returned by itself.

I crept down the hall and through the kitchen, on high alert for further evidence. The empty coffee cup in the sink could have been Dad’s, or Jake’s. The crumpled paper towel containing the uneaten, unfrosted corners of a strawberry Pop-Tart had definitely been left behind by Rosie, a big believer in midnight snacks. But the sound I could now detect coming from the living room—the asthmatic snore of a woman who had forbidden all pets, even gerbils, from crossing the threshold of the Nelson family home—had only one possible source.

I didn’t know whether I should feel relieved that she had come back, or upset that she was sleeping on the couch.

But because I was still in unwashed hospital scrubs—with beer on my breath, Seth on my mind, the potential for impulsivity coursing through my veins—I tiptoed past her and went to bed.

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