Train Wreck (Life Sucks Book 1) by Elise Faber

Author:Elise Faber [Faber, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elise Faber
Published: 2017-05-30T18:30:00+00:00

22

The Plague

“So what do you think?” Pepper asked Samantha. “Is it horrible?”

Her friend had slipped over that evening to pick up her bag after Rylie had finally crashed. Poor thing was really under the weather.

She hadn’t wanted to keep her friend, but she also couldn’t stop herself from asking Samantha’s opinion.

On her artwork.

It felt strange to even say that.

Pepper appreciated art, could buy a gallery’s worth. But she’d never thought to make some of her own.

Samantha silently studied the piece of driftwood, glass, and shells, and Pepper began panic-talking.

The thing that happened when she desperately didn’t want to care about someone’s reaction and yet she really did, and then she couldn’t stop words from blurting out and she ended up filling the air with all sorts of nonsense.

“I wanted to add some sea glass but I didn’t have any and I think it kind of looks cool with the sharp edges and stuff. Of course, it wouldn’t work with kids around. Someone might get cut and—”

“Pepper.”

“Yeah?”

“Shut up.”

She clamped her lips together.

Samantha plunked her hands on Pepper’s shoulders. “It’s gorgeous.”

All of the pent up air escaped her lungs. “Yeah?”

“Yes,” Samantha said. “You need to sell these.”

“I—” Pepper shook her head. “I didn’t make it for that.”

Samantha squeezed Pepper’s shoulders before dropping her hands. “Which is precisely why it’s so gorgeous.” She snapped a picture with her phone before walking to the front door. “I’ve got to get back, but I’m sending this to my friend Mitch. He owns a gallery and that”—a nod to the sculpture glittering in the low light—“deserves to be on display.”

“But—”

“Shh.”

“I was just going to say—”

“No arguments.”

Pepper smiled and reached past Samantha to open the front door. Then she hugged her friend. “I was going to say thank you and”—she pulled back—“let me know if you need me to watch Rylie tomorrow while you’re at work. I don’t mind,” she added when Samantha started shaking her head. “Should I turn the ‘no arguments’ rule back on you?”

“No,” Samantha said with a chuckle. “If I don’t get whatever plague Rylie has, I’ll take you up on the offer.”

“Deal.”

After another hug, Pepper closed the door.

Then she washed her hands. No plague for her, please and thank you.

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