Summer 01: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Author:Jenny Han [Han, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
chapter twenty-six
Just like that, July turned into August. I guessed summer went by a lot faster when you had someone to spend it with. For me, that someone was Cam. Cam Cameron.
Mr. Fisher always came the first week of August. Heâd bring Susannahâs favorites from the city, almond croissants and lavender chocolates. And flowers, he always brought flowers. Susannah loved flowers. She said she needed them like air, to breathe. She had more vases than I could count, tall ones and fat ones and glass ones. They were all over the house, flowers in vases in every room. Her favorites were peonies. She kept them on her nightstand in her bedroom, so they were the first thing she saw in the morning.
Shells, too. She loved shells. She kept them in hurricane glasses. When sheâd come back from a walk on the beach, sheâd always come back with a handful of shells. Sheâd arrange them on the kitchen table, admire them first, say things like, âDoesnât this one look just like an ear?â Or, âIsnât this one the perfect shade of pink?â Then sheâd put them in order from biggest to smallest. It was one of her rituals, something I loved to watch her do.
That week, right around when Mr. Fisher usually came, Susannah mentioned that he couldnât get away from work. There had been some sort of emergency at the bank. It would just be the five of us finishing out the summer. It would be the first year without Mr. Fisher and my brother.
After she went to bed, early, Conrad said to me, conversationally, âTheyâre getting a divorce.â
âWho?â I said.
âMy parents. Itâs about time.â
Jeremiah glared at him. âShut up, Conrad.â
Conrad shrugged. âWhy? You know itâs true. Bellyâs not surprised, are you, Belly?â
I was. I was really surprised. I said, to both of them, âI thought they seemed like they were really in love.â
Whatever love was, I was sure they had it. I thought they had it a million times over. The way they gazed at each other at the dinner table, how excited Susannah got when he came to the summer house. I didnât think people like that got divorced. People like my parents got divorced. Not Susannah and Mr. Fisher.
âThey were in love,â Jeremiah told me. âI donât really know what happened.â
âDadâs a dick. Thatâs what happened,â Conrad said, getting up. He sounded so blasé and matter-of-fact, but that didnât seem right. Not when I knew he adored his dad. I wondered if Mr. Fisher had a new girlfriend the way my father did. I wondered if heâd cheated on Susannah. But who would ever cheat on Susannah? It was impossible.
âDonât tell your mom you know,â Jeremiah said suddenly. âMom doesnât know we know.â
âI wonât,â I said. I wondered how theyâd found out. My parents had sat Steven and me down and told us everything, explained it all in detail.
As Conrad left, Jeremiah said to me, âBefore we left, our dad had been sleeping in the guest room for weeks.
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