Suburban Renewal (That Business Between Us Book 3) by Morsi Pamela

Author:Morsi, Pamela [Morsi, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Gnarly Wool Publishing
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

19

Corrie

1993

My graduation should have been a time of celebration. I'd worked so hard and waited so long. It had taken me six years to get a bachelor's degree, but I'd finally done it. It was a tremendous accomplishment. It should have been one of the happiest, proudest moments of my life. What it felt like was just one more event that I was expected to show up at, this one wearing a robe and mortarboard.

Sam had gotten a job. That was great news. I admit, I'd begun to wonder if he liked not working so much that he might just hang around forever. I know it's unfair of me even to say that. He couldn't find a job, and then, thank God, he was unemployed and able to stay with Mike and take care of him. Still, after the first little glow of pride at being sole support of my family, the honor wore thin.

Sam inherited Gram's house after Floyd's death. Or rather he didn't inherit it. We found out that we'd owned it all the time. Although Sam had signed the title transfer papers, Floyd had never gotten around to filing them. We don't know if he was balking at the title transfer fee or if he just didn't want those pesky tax bills coming in his name.

Either way, we were able to take possession of the house and set up a payment schedule to catch up the taxes on the place. It had been so long since we'd had a place of our own that we'd weeded our possessions down to the essentials. Only the children's rooms were significant moving challenges.

Gram's house was small. Since Lauren and Nate both needed their own rooms, I decided that Gram's sewing porch, a little multi-windowed room that had been added to the east side of the house, would serve as our master bedroom. It was small, but with Sam living his life in some distant motel, it was plenty big enough for me.

Lauren was gearing up to start high school in the fall. She was more able to take care of herself and help around the house. She loved being at Gram's place. The neighborhood was in the middle of a revitalization. Lots of the new people, moving into the area for Tulsa's high-tech jobs, liked the big trees, sidewalks and picket fences that evoked memories of small-town America. Though it was all just window dressing. The city sprawl now spread far past Lumkee. The new high school had an enrollment close to 1,500, almost three times the size it had been when Sam and I attended.

Lauren was popular and had lots of friends. She also participated in nearly everything, which brought its own share of conflicts. She loved ballet, but worried her horseback riding was making her look too muscular. She had been first-chair flute in the middle school. But if she was in the marching band, she couldn't go out for cheerleader. She was elected president of Salon France, but bemoaned that all the athletes and the really cool kids signed up for Spanish Club.

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