Ron says. “My mom wants to know what we should bring.”“Peace,” Sadie says.She hangs up the phone, leans back against her headboard, and listens to see if there are any more sounds coming from her mother’s bedroom. No. It’s quiet now. Sadie looks at her watch: seven-thirty. When is her dad coming home?Irene just can’t settle down. Sadie can’t have practical conversations with her mother the way she can with her dad; she can hardly talk to her at all. For instance, she’d told her father that she and Ron had decided he would pay the first few months’ rent on whatever apartment they found; she would buy the necessities from the money she’d been saving for dorm extras. After that, they’d split everything. They’d both be in school starting in September, but they’d each have a part-time job. In fact, Sadie had already secured hers; as soon as she got into Berkeley, she went to student employment and got a job for the fall in a research lab, where she’d be cleaning out the cages used for white mice.
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