Amends: a Love Story
“Dad is in New York City. Again.
I'm visiting Mom's mausoleum on a day so bright and lovely it mocks death to its ugly face.
Like rich people throughout history, she built a monument to her life and death, where family and friends can visit, pay their respects and even, someday, choose to be interred close by. It's a pretty, airy space with modern lines and angles carved in classic white marble. I'm sitting outside the tomb itself on a marble bench positioned between the entryway and a waist-hig...h wrought-iron gate.
Mom chose the highest point in the Jasper Heights Eternal Home, so I have a panoramic view of the whole cemetery. Gravestones sprawl for as far as I can see.
My phone vibrates. It's Ember.
In the mall parking lot, after my dance class?
I shake my head. I'm not going to do it this time. Every time I see Ember, I try to break up with her, and every time I try to break up with her, we end up naked and sweaty.
Lately, our encounters have become frantic and desperate. We've hooked up in cars, the girl's locker room, and even in a rest area by Lake Everclear.MoreLess
I'm visiting Mom's mausoleum on a day so bright and lovely it mocks death to its ugly face.
Like rich people throughout history, she built a monument to her life and death, where family and friends can visit, pay their respects and even, someday, choose to be interred close by. It's a pretty, airy space with modern lines and angles carved in classic white marble. I'm sitting outside the tomb itself on a marble bench positioned between the entryway and a waist-hig...h wrought-iron gate.
Mom chose the highest point in the Jasper Heights Eternal Home, so I have a panoramic view of the whole cemetery. Gravestones sprawl for as far as I can see.
My phone vibrates. It's Ember.
In the mall parking lot, after my dance class?
I shake my head. I'm not going to do it this time. Every time I see Ember, I try to break up with her, and every time I try to break up with her, we end up naked and sweaty.
Lately, our encounters have become frantic and desperate. We've hooked up in cars, the girl's locker room, and even in a rest area by Lake Everclear.MoreLess
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