The Devil Wears Prada Collection by Lauren Weisberger

Author:Lauren Weisberger [Lauren Weisberger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

18

‘Jill, stop shouting for your sister!’ my mother screamed unhelpfully. ‘I think she’s still sleeping.’ And then, a voice came even louder from the bottom of the stairs.

‘Andy, are you still sleeping?’ she screamed in the general direction of my room.

I pried open an eye and checked the clock. Quarter after eight in the morning. Dear god, what were these people thinking?

It took a few times of rocking from side to side before I could muster enough strength to pull myself to sit, and when I finally did, my whole body pleaded for more sleep, just a little more sleep.

‘Morning,’ Lily smiled, her face coming within inches of my own when she turned to face me. ‘They sure do get up early around here.’ Since Jill and Kyle and the baby were home for Thanksgiving, Lily had been forced to vacate Jill’s old room and move onto the lower half of my childhood trundle bed, which was currently pulled out and nearly level with my own twin-size bed.

‘What are you complaining about? You look psyched to be awake right now, and I’m not sure why.’ She was propped up on one elbow, reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee she kept picking up and placing down on the floor next to the bed.

‘I’ve been up forever listening to Isaac cry.’

‘He’s been crying? Really?’

‘I can’t believe you didn’t hear him. It’s been incessant since about six-thirty. Cute kid, Andy, but that whole early-morning thing has got to go.’

‘Girls!’ my mother screamed again. ‘Is anyone awake up there? Anyone? I don’t care if you’re still sleeping, just please tell me one way or the other so I know how many waffles to defrost!’

‘Please tell her one way or the other? I’m going to kill her, Lil.’ And then toward my still closed door: ‘We’re still sleeping, can’t you tell? Fast asleep, probably for hours more. We don’t hear the baby or you screaming, or anything else!’ I shouted back, collapsing backward on the bed. Lily laughed.

‘Relax,’ she said in a very un-Lily-like way. ‘They’re just happy you’re home, and I, for one, am happy to be here. Besides, it’s only a couple more months, and we’ve got each other. It’s really not so bad.’

‘A couple more months? It’s only been one so far, and I’m ready to put a bullet in my head.’ I yanked my nightshirt over my head – one of Alex’s old workout ones – and put on a sweatshirt. The same jeans I’d been wearing every day for the past few weeks lay rumpled in a ball near my closet; when I pulled them over my hips, I noticed that were feeling snugger. Now that I no longer had to resort to gulping down a bowl of soup or subsisting on cigarettes and Starbucks alone, my body had adjusted itself accordingly and gained back the ten pounds I’d lost while working at Runway. And it didn’t even make me cringe; I believed it when Lily and my parents told me I looked healthy, not fat.

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