Dear Diary 2: Pride by Allison Cassatta

Author:Allison Cassatta [Cassatta, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B006XZRXG0
Published: 2012-12-25T03:29:57+00:00

Chapter Nine

Graduation day; it had been almost a week since I’d seen Josh. School had kept him busy. Getting ready for this day had kept me and Mom busy. She’d wanted to buy me this and that and a bunch of junk I didn’t really need. She’d taken me shopping for dorm stuff, saying she only wanted me to be prepared for the world. Every time she mentioned it, she got all teary-eyed; to the point it had become almost hysterical to us both.

My lip had healed and my eye only had a faint, yellow ring around it. I could barely see it anymore. I silently thanked God for taking care of that for me. Last thing I wanted was the reminder of my bathroom-beat-down to be forever captured in the photos of my big day.

“Chris,” Mom called up the stairs. “Breakfast is ready and Josh is on his way here, so get up, let’s get it in gear, okay?”

I groaned. “Sure thing, Mom.” Literally rolling out of the bed, somehow I managed to plant my feet on the floor instead of falling on my face. I stretched. I yawned. I padded over to the bathroom, splashed some water on my face to wake up and tried to straighten out the rat’s nest my hair had turned into during the night. I used to never primp before food, but on the chance Josh might show before my shower, I wanted to look… well, a little less scary.

My hands scrubbed up and down my face as I rounded the corner to the kitchen. Dad hummed “Pomp and

Circumstance” from behind his newspaper. Mom smiled so wide her perfect, white teeth almost blinded me. She held her hands to her chest as she made her way around the table to hug me. Cassie stuffed her face and swung her feet while Slobbers waited under her chair to catch the crumbs as they dropped.

“My little boy is all grown up, now,” Mom squealed as she attached herself to me. Her arms wrapped around my neck. I could hear her sniffling against my shoulder, and about that time, heat flushed my face.

“Nan, you’re embarrassing him,” Dad said.

Cassie giggled.

“I’m fine,” I said as my hand rubbed up and down her back.

Dad shook his head and turned his eyes back to his paper. Mom raised her head as she wiped away her happy tears. I swear, she cried at everything, but sometimes, it was cute. Like now, when all her years of hard work and raising me to be one of the good guys came out in some monumental event… like graduating high school with a three-point-nine grade point average and a full ride to almost any college I could image wanting to go to. She had a right to be proud, so did Dad, and that wasn’t me gloating. That was the honest truth.

I sat down at the table. Mom sat a full plate of crisp bacon, fluffy eggs and homemade biscuits in front of my face.

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