V.C. Andrews - Wildflowers 04 by Cat

Author:Cat
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-17T01:36:24+00:00

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"I hate days like this," Jade said after a long moment of silence. "I know it hardly rains here compared to most other places, and I guess I'm spoiled, but I can't stand this dreary weather."

"I don't mind it so much," Misty said. "Unless it's day after day."

"Granny hates it because it stirs up her aches and pains," Star said.

"Too many days look gray and gloomy to me without the clouds and rain," Jade admitted.

"It's not that bad," Misty insisted. Jade didn't like to be contradicted.

"I suppose if you live like a child in a fantasy world, it doesn't matter," she said, fixing her gaze on Misty.

"I don't live in a fantasy world and I don't live like a child."

"We all do," I said and they turned to me. "I mean, if you aren't happy with things, you daydream a lot, don't you? I do," I confessed. "And you've all described doing it in one way or another, too."

"Cat's right," Star said, nodding. She glanced at Jade. "There's no point lying to each other just because everyone else lies to us."

"I spend a lot of time in my room, alone, just . .

. dreaming," I told them, "a lot of time. That's what made my parents want me to see Doctor Marlowe in the first place. I hated stepping out the front door, hated going to school, just hated leaving the house at all. I missed a lot of school, claiming headaches and stomach cramps or just being too tired. It got so bad the nuns were talking to my mother about getting me a home tutor, and you know how much she would hate having a stranger in our home every day."

"Do you have a nice house?" Misty asked.

"It's okay, but it's nothing like this. We've got a good size backyard: The property's walled-in with oleander bushes growing up the walls to give us lots of privacy. My mother's always planting something that will close it in more. Mostly it's just grass and a couple of grapefruit and lemon trees. My father used to talk about building a pool. My mother would ask,

'What for?' and he would look at her as if he was giving it lots of thought and then say, `To swim in.'

"'It's too much work,' my mother muttered, 'and with your schedule, who's going to do it?'

"He said he would hire someone just like everyone else he knew who had a pool, but the discussion usually ended with that and nothing was ever done.

"I used to think if we had a pool, I could invite some girls over, but then I thought, what kind of bathing suit would my mother approve? Certainly not a bikini, and who would I invite anyway and suppose I found some girls who would come and they wore bikinis Mother would ask them to leave."

"Well, if you invited friends over now, you could hang out in your bedroom, right?" Misty asked, and I wondered if she would ever want to visit.

"I suppose.

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