Apples & Oranges (The This & That Series)
“On the way home, we T-boned a Cadillac and we were all rushed to a hospital in Hollywood. For over eight hours, I sat in the waiting room at the hospital with twenty stitches in my forehead, waiting for my mother to answer her phone and come pick me up.
All of the other kids had long since been picked up, and there I sat with a hospital social worker who was on the verge of taking me to a foster home when my mother finally stumbled in. She was wearing a skimpy, sequined party dress and smelled like whatever club she’d spent the night in, and hadn’t even noticed that I was missing until her assistant had checked her voicemail.
When I walked into the South Spokane General that afternoon after Lexie’s call, it made that excruciating night in a California hospital seem like a walk in the park. My teenage embarrassment and pain paled in comparison to the grief I witnessed when I ran into the waiting room with still wet, uncombed hair to find Lexie holding Candace her arms as she hu...ddled on the floor, wailing with grief.MoreLess
All of the other kids had long since been picked up, and there I sat with a hospital social worker who was on the verge of taking me to a foster home when my mother finally stumbled in. She was wearing a skimpy, sequined party dress and smelled like whatever club she’d spent the night in, and hadn’t even noticed that I was missing until her assistant had checked her voicemail.
When I walked into the South Spokane General that afternoon after Lexie’s call, it made that excruciating night in a California hospital seem like a walk in the park. My teenage embarrassment and pain paled in comparison to the grief I witnessed when I ran into the waiting room with still wet, uncombed hair to find Lexie holding Candace her arms as she hu...ddled on the floor, wailing with grief.MoreLess
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