Life As We Break It by Jennifer LaCross

Author:Jennifer LaCross [LaCross, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter eighteen

Nora

I wake up with a violent hangover from crying. My head pounds harder than the surf against the rocks of the west coast. I haven’t felt this sick in a long time. Once, when I was in elementary school, I had the flu. I remember my mother kept me home from school for an entire week. She fed me sips of ginger ale and gave me only one dry cracker per hour. If I kept the first cracker down, I would earn myself another one by the time the next hour rolled around. She’d put on my favorite shows, even the ones I wasn’t normally allowed to watch. Then she would sit on the end of the couch with my feet in her lap, her hands kneading them like a pile of dough. Not once did I ever feel like I was a bother. She enjoyed taking care of me. A part of me hated being so sick, but the other part of me loved her doting on me, knowing that James was stuck in school doing stupid schoolwork.

Even the small movement of reaching for my phone on the bedside table sends waves of nausea rippling through the length of my body like pure bolts of lightning. I blow out a breath, trying to steady myself. I swallow the thick sludgy feeling in the back of my throat.

I send Roxy a quick text.

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