Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear - Plot & Excerpts
The only other time she had ever slept over somewhere was when Adam had had pneumonia two years earlier, when Harriet was four, and she had stayed with her grandmother in her apartment for three nights. Gay’s chiming clock, a clock Gay called Ursula, as though it were an ancestor who had somehow been preserved in this form, had woken Harriet throughout each night. But Carrie wouldn’t have a fancy clock like that. Harriet had never gone anywhere with Carrie before, and she couldn’t tell if Carrie really wanted her to go home with her. But after a rushed after-school snack of cookies and milk, which Harriet ate alone at the kitchen table while Carrie tidied things up, when it was time to leave the house and walk to the subway stop, Carrie held out her hand to Harriet and gave her a big smile, and Harriet suddenly looked forward to the adventure. Carrie’s apartment was in the depths of Brooklyn; it was a long subway ride from Oxbridge Gardens. If they were to ride in the front car, they would have to walk a block more at the other end, but Carrie agreed to it, making Harriet’s pleasure complete.
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