Lily Robbins, M.D. by Nancy Rue

Author:Nancy Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

All the way home Lily felt the pang go through her over and over again.

I did everything the book said, she thought as she ducked her head out of the biting-cold wind. So how come Mrs. Johnson was treating me like that? She made me feel like I’d been playing around with something serious. I wasn’t!

The whole experience had put Lily in the kind of mood where she just wanted to go to her room by herself, pull all the books out of her bookcases, and reorganize them while she thought about it and thought about it and thought about it until the pangs went away.

But when she walked in the house and smelled the corn dogs, she remembered it was Family Night.

They’d started a new thing since Christmas: every Monday night the Robbinses would have corn dogs and milk shakes and Rice Krispies Treats and Caesar salad and potato skins as a family and play a board game together. The menu was a combination of each person’s favorite food, and they took turns choosing the board game. Last Monday had been Dad’s turn, and they’d played some dusty old thing from his childhood called Authors that only he was good at. Tonight was Joe’s turn to pick, so it was sure to be some kind of war game or something.

Lily groaned. Maybe if she said she didn’t feel well, they’d let her off.

But then she also remembered that she was the one who had suggested the whole thing when they were all making their New Year’s resolutions. If she begged off, Joe and Art would think they could too, and that would leave Mom playing “Authors” with Dad by herself.

Lily wouldn’t wish that on anybody.

She dragged herself into the kitchen, where Mom was just pulling the potato skins out of the microwave and Art was pouring milk shakes from the blender.

“Where have you been?” Joe said. “You were supposed to make Rice Krispies Treats!”

“I was saving someone’s life,” Lily said as she marched to the cabinet where they kept the cereal.

“Nuh-uh,” Joe said.

“Exaggerating just a little, Lil?” Mom said. “Don’t bother looking. I picked up some at the grocery store.”

“The packaged kind?” Art said. “Gross.”

“Okay, so I wasn’t saving her life exactly.”

“Duh,” Art said. “So where are they, Mom?”

“While you’re looking, see if you can find the croutons for my salad,” Dad said from the doorway to the laundry room/mudroom. He was holding a large bowl of Caesar salad. There was so much going on in the kitchen, he’d probably had to make his contribution to the dinner out there.

“But she sprained her ankle,” Lily said, “and I put a splint on it and we got her back to Reni’s house.”

“Who?” said all four of the Robbinses at the same time. “Zooey,” Lily said.

She looked back at them, and suddenly the pangs went away. They had all stopped what they were doing, and they were all looking at her, and for just a second nobody was making a comment like “Nuh-uh!” or “Duh!”

“Are you serious?” Mom said finally.

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