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“All right, then We’ll see you at…”

“Seven,” Stella supplies helpfully “Can’t wait”

Oh yeah Should be a grand fucking time

Carly

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“Carly! They’re here!” my mom shouts from the hallway I swear, the woman has been amped up since we left the Winn-Dixie, her excitement on a different level

The entire ti and Stella was certainly working to get her groove back Singing, shiri me on my ass to the beat, she did it all Hell, I barely et ready without her joining me

“Okay!” I yell back, leaning forward across the vanity to finish putting mascara on my lashes “I’ll be there in a sec!”

After helping her do aaround her faet myself cleaned up

Since I have the culinary prowess of a donkey, I would’ve just ordered a dae hasn’t been known as the dinner party queen for uests over for ameal

Homemade, baked from scratch, self-created recipes—she pulls out all the stops Today, though, thanks to the fractured tailbone, she had to turn to me for help like one of those episodes of Top Chef where theyin a h they don’t know the difference between a spoon and a ladle When it coes, I am that family member

I eat frozen dinners or get takeout or, so oodies because they’re painfully aware of how food inept I am

If it weren’t for Stella’s ed off entirely

“If your face isn’t fixed by now, it’s not going to be,” she clucks froh

Lord, it’s nore ht With the way she’s been so far, I can only i to be with them actually here

Quickly, I rub on so up my dirty clothes and toiletries in the crook of uest roo lands with a soft oof and bounces off the bed, but I don’t bother going back to pick it up Instead, I pull the door closed behindthein the entryway