How it Ends by Laura Wiess

Author:Laura Wiess [Wiess, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781439164228
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2012-12-10T13:00:00+00:00

Two months later, only a week after Christmas, a doctor from a rural community upstate queried the home about fostering a neat, quiet, able-bodied girl to help around the house and keep his invalid wife company.

He arrived for an interview on New Year’s Eve, and some hours later, they sent me home with him.

I paused the CD and glanced at Gran.

Her eyes were closed, so I turned off the player, did my homework, and when Grandpa finally returned, loaded the deer food, opened the cans of cat food, and did what I was supposed to do.

It was cold and gray out, a depressing twilight, and most of the stray cats were huddled in the three-story cat condo. Normally there would be little electric heaters or lamps glowing inside to bring heat, but I guess they couldn’t afford it anymore, because the heat wasn’t on.

When I walked into my house, fingers numb from the cold, nose running, I looked at my parents and said, “If I died tomorrow, what would you do with my stuff?”

“Garage sale,” my father sang out, but when I didn’t laugh, he glanced at my mother.

“We would keep it, of course, because you loved it and we love you,” she said, watching me.

“Good,” I said hoarsely and made it up to my room before I started crying.

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