A Million Rainbows: A Sweet YA Romance by Orchid Leigh

Author:Orchid Leigh [Leigh, Orchid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Charlie and I came home to an empty house. Mom wasn’t even in her bed.

Charlie knew this was going to happen, but it didn’t stop her from crying about it. The tiny little princess, with her pretty blue Elsa dress, went straight into our room and wept quiet tears into her pillow.

I wept silently at the door, wishing I could help her, but Charlie didn’t want me right now.

Mom’s room was messy. All the drawers on her dresser had been left open. Several articles of clothing were strewn about on her bed—outfits she had discarded while trying to find something nice to wear. She was at the bar.

I sat at the edge of her bed.

She had cleared some space among the assortment of pill bottles, and a stack of composition notebooks sat in the corner of her nightstand. Seven in total. I picked up the top one.

Mom drafted her books by hand. We didn’t have a computer, but putting pen to paper, in the very literal sense, was her preferred method of writing, anyway.

Her handwriting was nice, consistently nice on every page. She didn’t scribble or cross out. She just kept going.

Writing was Mom’s thing. It was where she shined. If only she could carry that same spark of confidence, that drive and hunger for something other than her own self-sabotage, to other areas of her life, then she’d be the radiant star Charlie believed in.

I turned to the last page in the notebook, to the very last line where she had written: The End.

She had finished her book, at least. She should be celebrating. But I knew Mom. She wasn’t celebrating; she was mourning. She was mourning the loss of her characters. Mourning the loss of a world where she was free of all her real problems. And now that her book was finished, she no longer had a place to escape to.

And she was drinking again.

I placed the notebook back down and lifted the stack, pulling out the bottom one—the first part of her book.

I took it with me and exited the room.

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