The Wrong Sister by Leanne Davis

Author:Leanne Davis [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leanne Davis
Published: 2014-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

TRACY HAD NOT HAD a job in a decade. Prior to that, she temporarily worked as a receptionist at the local community swimming pool. She had no marketable skills. After she got the girls off to school the next day, she drove straight to Donny’s office. It was located in downtown Calliston. It was a small office on the main street and set among other shops and businesses that ranged from a lawyer to an insurance broker to a small coffee shop next door. The front was brick with a deep overhang that provided a covered walkway up and down. She had been there before although she couldn’t remember the reason, and recalled that it was small, but neat and orderly. She could see the waiting room and what would be her desk from the storefront windows that offered a view into almost the entire office.

Gretchen’s former practice was only one block over, and a few blocks behind Donny’s present location. Tracy used to go there often to take Gretchen to lunch and occasionally, dinner. Her heart tugged with nostalgia. She missed Gretchen living in town. Especially now. She would know just the right thing to say to Tracy today. It was hard to contemplate working in the real world when she never really did it before. Even if her “boss” was Donny, it was still venturing out into the real world for her. Further than she’d maybe ever been. Her hands were slick with sweat as she parked her mini-van into a slot nearly right in front of Donny’s office.

Gretchen could have talked her through this. Gretchen had been supporting herself for many years, and made a good living. Tracy’s lack of work experience had not bothered her before this year. She was content with her daily life. Her babies were born almost back to back. For many years, she was so busy tending to them, she had to give up showering some days. Being that busy in her early twenties, it would have been a joke to say she didn’t “work.” She knew she worked as hard as anyone, being the mother of two kids who were only fifteen months apart. Kylie came as a bit of a surprise. She and Micah wanted another kid, just not back to back. But it wasn’t that big of deal to them in the end. Micah had just gotten hired at a finance company and was about to make a decent living. They had also moved from their first tiny apartment together, into a two-bedroom, little house. The girls shared a room.

At twenty-three, when she crossed the threshold of that small, two-story house, she felt like the queen of a castle. She felt like the richest, most lucky girl in the world. She never regarded it as a small, unfancy, starter home. To her, it symbolized all her dreams coming true.

She missed that house, the place her kids were just babies in. Things were simple, on a small scale, and wonderful.

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