Turn the World Upside Down by Nyrae Dawn

Author:Nyrae Dawn [Dawn, Nyrae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-63477-419-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

IT’S BEEN a couple days since Stray and I went horseback riding with a therapy group. I haven’t gotten the chance to kiss him again, but I think my time here would go by a lot quicker and happier if I never had to stop. Maybe to eat or things like that, but kissing seems like much better therapy than talking.

Casey’s still playing his clarinet every night, sometimes during the day too. They’re right, he’s good. And it doesn’t bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. The problem is, I think he’s playing so much because he’s still freaked out about the fight. It makes me wonder how he would feel about me if he knew what the last straw was that made Mom send me here.

And the truth about the whole thing…. Even though hitting my teacher wasn’t intentional, it still felt good. It relieved some of the pressure building inside me, gave me a release for some of the anger.

That’s not something I can share with anyone. It makes me feel no better than Dad. It makes me scared that one day I’ll grow up and feel okay about hurting people the way he felt okay about hurting Holly. Normal people don’t think stuff like that is acceptable, so I try to stuff it in the back of my mind and pretend it doesn’t exist.

“Am I the only one not excited for family therapy?” Rosie asks as we sit having breakfast. I jerk my eyes away from Casey, realizing it looks like I was staring at him. Really, I guess I was. “Too bad we didn’t get shipped to one of those places where they don’t let you have any contact with your family the whole time you’re there.”

“My mom never would have gone for that,” I tell them as I poke at my breakfast burrito. When I first came to Better Days, I just wanted to be with my family, but now that I’m here, I agree with Rosie. The whole idea of sitting down with them makes my heart want to stop beating. It’s like trying to use a hidden key to unlock things that I don’t want to be unlocked.

“I can’t wait to see my parents.” Casey’s eyes don’t leave his plate.

“Are the foster people coming?” Rosie asks Stray, and he shrugs. I kind of wish she had called them his foster parents, even if Stray doesn’t.

“They say so, but who knows? I guess since they’re footing the bill, they might.”

Or maybe because they care about you, I want to tell him, but Rosie speaks first. “And this girl over here is close to getting out. This’ll be your last one ever.” She throws a balled-up napkin at Bethany, who gives a tight smile.

“Wait. What? Bethany is leaving?” Jealousy colors my vision, but I try to block it out. Is it really jealousy, though? Two minutes ago I wanted to spend all day kissing Stray and not having to see my family.

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