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"He’ll be here by four for dinner, don’t you worry" My mom loves to feed people and she’s ecstatic about ht anyone hoe, come to think of it No wonder she’s excited

I pry open the Tupperith all the Christot laid out

"He said he can’t wait to try na!" Mom boasts and I drop a cookie on the floor

"What’s that?" I ask, bending to pick up the cookie and toss it in the trash

"He said you’re always raving about na recipe" She beams "I had no idea you liked it so much, Everly, I’d have ives the pot on the stove another stir, knocking the wooden spoon against the edge twice before resting it on the spoon rest next to the stove

"Ue ofwith thewith Sawyer?"

"Oh, eren’t chatting We were Facebooking On the FB"

"Mo my boyfriend, it’s weird"

"I know it’s just Facebook, Everly But it’s funnier to call it the FB, don’t you think?"

"No" I’edto kill him I wonder if Facebook has a feature to report this I could care less about risqué pictures on my tie about?" I ask, h as I close one container of cookies and pry open another

"Nothing, Everly He senttoday That’s all"

"That’s all," I repeat

"And I sent him some pictures You were such a cute kid It’s been forever since I had anyone new to show those pictures to" She pulls a cutting board fro, Everly I’etables fro board "I’ve never seen you so wound up before" She grins at"He ht nod "He’s sos It’s too early to be Sawyer, but the relatives have started to arrive My brother Eric will be here with his wife, Erin My grandparents, an aunt and uncle and two cousins will be here too I hearthe door to let whoever’s arrived first in At least Eric won’tSawyer in front of the relatives I hope

My teenage cousin Vivian bounds into the kitchen afro She takes over the cookies and updatesto go to college next fall I listen and take over the salad prep froo when I was in her shoes Except of course, I only sent in the one application, so dead set that I would be accepted to Penn and everything would work out like I’d planned I was right about getting into Penn, but wrong about everything else

"What are your plans after graduation?" Vivians’s finished her updates and looks toit in her ot ti deal As if it doesn’t cause me a moment of worry