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Chapter Fourteen

Selena

“You’re getting big,” my mom said

I sighed and set the bag of groceries on the counter in her trailer I lived on the nice side of town in a condo I’d bought with the otten from Melanie Stewart The last place I’d wanted to coinia, but I could commute to Marshall where I was, and I had a few cousins in toho could helpneed for an affordable babysitter

God kneas never going to let my mother near my child

Still, being this close to her, I felt obligated again, like I had to check in on her to make sure she’d eaten and was still alive I’d let her have my current cell nuhts when she needed to be bailed out I didn’t technically owe her anything, but being this close to her, it was hard not to keep an eye on her

I sighed and put a hand on nant clearly sonant and had gained over twenty-five pounds On my short frame, it almost looked like I’d sed a beach ball, and I had fiveediting for the local paper, and it was a stretch to get everything done I was past thesickness, but my back was stiff, and my ankles were always swollen

Whoever said that being pregnant was sonant because the last thing I felt was blessed

Or like so in the miracle of life

And all that happy Circle of Life/Disney horseshit

“I know”

Moht her food at least three ti—but the ed her so otten back, to quit, but she’dthe bones of her shoulder and spine popping out so badly under her tank top made me want to cry

“You don’t want to get too fat with that Then again, if you have one kid, ain, Selly”

I gritted s and e I wasn’t the sa mistake and fallen for the promises of soirls over the years I was just another one

“Don’t call me that I’m not five”