Ashes to Ashes by Jenny Han EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jenny Han
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Friendship
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MARY
I’M HIGH UP IN THE rear balcony of Holy Lady of the Sea, and it is pure
agony. There aren’t enough tears in the whole wide world. My sobs
echo those of the congregation below me.
There is a brass urn on the white marble altar. And a sea of flowers.
Roses and mums and lilies and snapdragons, a cross made of white
carnations, wreaths with pink ribbons hanging down the front. So
many flowers, even though it’s snowing on the other side of the
stained-glass windows.
I don’t know when I got here. I don’t know what day it is. I don’t
know the time.
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An old lady takes a seat at the organ behind me and begins a sad
hymn. Everyone stands up, and the preacher walks somberly down the
center aisle, followed by two altar boys holding big wooden crosses. It
is a struggle for my mom to keep up. I see her through my tears. Black
pencil skirt, black sweater. She can barely stand. Aunt Bette supports
her on one side, my father on the other.
I rub my eyes and look again. It’s not my mom. It’s Ms. Holtz. She’s
got the same curly hair, same petite frame as Rennie. The two people
flanking her I’ve never seen before.
And the huge picture on an easel next to the urn is not one of me.
It’s Rennie in a yellow sundress, her hair down and curly and tousled
from the offshore breeze. She’s wearing an innocent expression, but she
has mischief in her eyes. She looks about fifteen or sixteen. Younger
than I remember her ever seeming.
This isn’t my funeral. It’s Rennie’s.
It’s so crowded that ushers have brought in extra folding chairs to
put in the aisles and next to the confessionals. That’s where I see Kat.
Her father stands behind her. Pat squeezes her hand. I can tell by the
way Kat’s shoulders rise and fall that she’s sobbing.
When Ms. Holtz passes the Cho family, she stops and reaches out
with a shaky hand to touch Lillia’s shoulder. She wants Lillia to come
sit with her in the front pew. Lillia looks nervous, but Mrs. Cho gives
her daughter an encouraging nod.
On her way to her new seat, Lillia passes Reeve and his family. His
parents and his brothers and their girlfriends. They take up almost the
whole row. Reeve’s just had a haircut; the skin on his neck is pink. He’s
wearing the suit he wore to homecoming. Lillia doesn’t look at him,
and he doesn’t look at her. Reeve starts flipping through a prayer book
as she lowers her head and takes her seat.
I scan the rafters, the eaves, and the statuary.
Rennie? Are you here too?
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