For Better or For Worse by Robin Palmer

Author:Robin Palmer [Palmer, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101575659
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Dr. Maude,

I’ve been thinking a lot about this and I’m worried that the reason you’re not writing back to me is because you think that I have a bit of a girl-who-cried-wolf thing going on. Looking back at my e-mail file where I keep all of the e-mails I sent you (I may not be organized in other areas of my life, but I’ll have you know that when it comes to my friendship with you, I’m VERY organized), I noticed that more than a few times I mentioned that whatever it was I needed advice on was VERY, VERY important—like, more important than anything else I had written to you before—and therefore I really, really, REALLY needed you to write back to me right away.

Well, as much as you probably don’t believe me at the moment, this time I’m not kidding when I say that this time it IS very important that you get back to me. We’re talking more important than ever.

And the reason for that is that things with Laurel and me are bad. Like, really, really, REALLY bad. Probably worse than they’ve ever been. I don’t have the time to go back and see if I’ve ever written that exact sentence to you in the past, but trust me when I tell you it’s true.

And it’s not just Laurel—it’s this whole Change thing, and the way that Mom didn’t even get the tiniest bit mad when she found out that Austin thought that Laurel was inviting him even though he just heard her wrong because he was on top of a mountain. And then how when I said, “Well, if Austin gets to be there, then I’m bringing Beatrice,” she said, “Lucy, we’ll talk about it later.” And then it took TWENTY-SEVEN HOURS for me to pin her down to do that. (She did say yes, which is good.)

I thought that officially becoming a family was going to make things better, but, frankly, if things are going to continue to go like this, then I don’t think it is. In fact, they might even get WORSE.

Not only that, but as hard as I try, I can’t seem to get into the mood to work on my video toast for the wedding—the thing that was going to prove that Laurel isn’t the only talented person in the family. It’s like I have toast block or something. So if you have advice for that, too, that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

yours truly,

Lucy B. Parker

“Did you get knocked on the head and get amnesia or something?” Blair asked later as he slumped on our living room couch crunching on some chocolate-covered pretzels I had smuggled out of the kitchen. “I mean how hard can it be to come up with a few examples of fun times you’ve had with your sister? Even I can come up with some and I can’t stand mine.”

It used to be that I couldn’t not think of fun times I had had with Laurel because there were so many of them.

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