Way Past Crazy by Madison Michael EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Madison Michael
- Language: English
- Genre: Romantic Comedy
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“Really? Name the presidents? This is what you want to talk about
when I’m about to leave?” I threw down my napkin in disgust and
stormed into the kitchen before I said something I regretted.
Five days with my parents was four days too long. Not that I don’t love
them, because I do, of course. It’s just, they’re people. I don’t do well with
people.
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I’d be out of their lives in less than half an hour. It would be months
before we saw each other face to face again. Maybe I ought to plaster on a
smile and suck it up.
“You know I get this one right every time you ask, Dad.” I stepped back
into the doorway between the dining room and kitchen, wiping my hands on
a dishtowel covered with colorful butterflies that sat on the counter nearby.
“Can’t you quiz me on something new?”
I tossed the towel back where I’d found it and dragged my feet across the
worn carpeting, reclaiming the straight-backed chair I had vacated at the
scuffed cherry table. I folded myself onto the front half, sitting with one
foot under my butt, ready to bolt.
“Not true, Smarty Pants.” My father always needed to have the last word,
an unattractive trait that I inherited from him. “Sometimes you forget
Carter.”
My father had spent my entire life drilling the value of education into me,
shoving boring biographies down my throat, insisting we watch
documentaries when he allowed TV at all. He was determined that I follow
in his footsteps to study engineering at Notre Dame. Other than the Fighting
Irish, these quizzes were one of the few ways he felt comfortable
connecting with me, so I bit back a nasty retort and the urge to walk out.
“Can you blame her, Harold?” my mother chimed in. “Many people
would like to forget Carter.” My mother stood in the kitchen doorway I had
just vacated, neatly folding the towel I had discarded. She glowed with
good health, although this visit had been due to a midnight call saying she
was in the hospital.
My mom thought she was having a heart attack, but the
doctors sent her home saying her heart was fine, but her gall bladder flared
so she needed to reduce her intake of fatty foods. She’d already been
watching her diet, but now she was a complete health nut. Hell, she looked
fabulous and better than ever. I knew I should be thrilled, but a kernel of
resentment hardened in my gut. Why couldn’t she have made the effort for
me or my brother when we were young and depended on her?
I couldn’t dwell on it or it would sink me. Instead, I laughed, as they
expected me to, and rattled off the presidents. After naming them all, if not
in order, I jumped from the chair, eager to get moving. “I need to be going.
It’s a long ride.”
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