[2002] This Lullaby

Author:Sarah Dessen [Dessen, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Interpersonal relations, Family & Relationships, Love & Romance
ISBN: 9781444907766
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books
Published: 2002-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

She looked at me, wide-eyed. "Do you want it, though? Because I'm not really sure I'll use it—"

"Yes," I said loudly. "I want it. I need it. Let's go."

"Well, okay," Lissa said, somewhat uncertainly. "If you really need it."

Later, when I dropped her off, I told her to make sure she took everything, even the plastic ware. But in typical fashion, she cleaned out every bag from my trunk except one. I promptly forgot about it, that is until a few nights later, when Dexter and I were unloading some groceries he'd bought for the yellow house—peanut butter, bread, orange juice, and Doritos—from my car. He grabbed all his bags, then was about to shut the trunk when he stopped and leaned over.

"What's this?" he asked, pulling out a white plastic shopping bag, knotted neatly at the top—I'd taught Lissa well—so that its contents wouldn't spill.

"Nothing," I said quickly, trying to take it from him.

"Wait, wait," he said, holding it out of my reach. The peanut butter fell out of one of his other bags, rolling across the yard, but he ignored this, too intrigued by what I didn't want him to see. "What is it?"

"Something I bought for myself," I said curtly, grabbing for it again. No luck. He was too tall, and his arms too long.

"Is it a secret?"

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Yes."

He shook the bag slightly, listening to the sound it made. "Doesn't sound secret," he decided.

"What does secret sound like?" I asked. Idiot. "Give it here."

"Like tampons," he told me, shaking it again. "This doesn't sound like tampons."

I glared at him, and he handed it over, as if now he didn't want to find out. He walked across the grass to pick up the peanut butter, wiping it on his shirt—of course—

and chucking it back into the bag.

"If you must know," I said, as if it was absolutely no big deal whatsoever, "it's just this plastic ware I bought at Linens Etc."

He thought about this. "Plastic ware."

"Yes. It was on sale."

We stood there. From inside the yellow house, I could hear the TV, and someone laughing. Monkey was standing on the other side of the screen door, watching us, his tail going full speed.

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