The Way Back by Carrie Mac

Author:Carrie Mac
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV039040, JUV039070, JUV039110
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2014-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

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When they got back to Gram’s, Colby put the jewelry box on her bed and went to the bathroom again. She always had to pee these days. The bathroom was just off the kitchen, and she could hear Milo and Gigi telling Gram how it went.

“Jordan nearly pissed herself,” Gigi said with a laugh.

“Didn’t,” Jordan muttered.

“God, did so.”

Colby closed her eyes. She put her head in her hands, elbows on her knees. She opened her eyes and saw her big belly, her pale knees, her pants and underwear bunched around her ankles. The chipped linoleum. The caulk around the tub. Gigi’s pink terrycloth bathrobe hanging behind the door. The sink with the rust stain. The mirror with the crack at the bottom from Gigi throwing the hair dryer at it once when she was arguing with Gram.

Colby tried to remember what Gram and Gigi had been arguing about. Going out? A mess in the kitchen? A guy Gram didn’t approve of?

That was it. Danilo. The one Gram said she could tell was evil just by the look in his eyes.

And he was. Colby had pulled Gigi out of a nasty abandoned warehouse after Danilo punched Gigi in the face.

Or was she thinking of the other guy? With the motorcycle?

Colby was tired of rescuing Gigi. She was tired of stealing. She was tired of living in the middle of so much drug use, in a neighborhood plagued by it. It wasn’t good for her. Or the baby.

Her ankles were swollen.

She felt like she still had to pee, but she already had. Her bladder hurt.

The last time she was with the midwife, she’d had her pee on a stick to check for a bladder infection. It’d been borderline.

She bet she had one now.

In the kitchen, Gigi and Jordan were still arguing. Colby sighed. She couldn’t sit on the toilet all day, even if hiding in the bathroom seemed more appealing than refereeing those two.

She pulled her pants up, washed her hands and opened the door.

Gram had gone back to the shop.

“You think you know me.” Jordan leaned forward, both hands splayed on the table in front of her. “But you don’t. So stop acting like you do.”

“I totally know you.” Gigi laughed. “You’d like to think that I don’t, but I do. You hated every minute of it. You are so transparent. It’s the only thin thing about you. I can see right through you. You were scared.”

“Whatever—”

“Is what people say when they know the other person is right.”

“Fuck you, Gigi.”

“Is what people say when they’ve run out of anything else to say.”

“Stop it, you guys!” Milo put his head in his hands. “Give it a rest.”

“Gladly,” Jordan said.

“Says the one who knows she’s lost.”

“Lost what?”

“The debate.”

“The debate?” Now Jordan laughed. “You think you have any debating skills at all, Gigi? For real? You’re not even smart enough to enter into a debate about what kind of nail polish to put on.”

“What do you know about nail polish, dyke?”

“Uh-uh.” Jordan pushed back her chair and stood up.

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