Best Friends (Until Someone Better Comes Along) - Plot & Excerpts
Each morning I ate my yogurt and granola on the wooden couch, enjoying a few minutes alone while my parents went out for a walk. It was one of the only times of the day when my mom left the cabin—she always made excuses about staying out of the sun in the middle of the day, and at night she only joined the other adults for a short while before she excused herself because of the bugs. When she finally did leave the cabin for even a short while, her absence was obvious. The pressure inside the belly of our little Cardinal went whoosh the moment she walked out the door. After breakfast, I made a habit of watching out the window as Ava and Bailey and the others traipsed down to the lake. The rest of the day, I lay in my bed and read, stopping only for food and to respond to texts from my friends. Whenever my dad stopped by the cabin during his team’s brainstorming breaks, he gave me these weird meaningful looks, which I pointedly ignored. “The other kids are doing games night tonight,”
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