Cloudburst
“Ryder told me when we met in the parking lot the next morning.
“Potential? What’s that mean? Potential for what? She hardly talked to me.”
“As a model or something. What else? She certainly doesn’t see you as a doctor or a lawyer. Not that you couldn’t be,” he quickly added. “It’s the way she looks at all girls and other women. My father calls it feminine envy. All women, he says, think someone else is prettier and never think they’re pretty enough. When he starts complaining about that, they r...eally go at it. I sit back and watch. It’s better than the soap opera he’s in.”
I laughed, but I thought he really did see his parents as people cast in roles. Every day of his life was simply another episode. He even talked about his sister as if she were playing a part she had been given at birth. I wondered if he saw himself the same way. Maybe he just didn’t feel real.
“By the way, Summer wasn’t too happy about the way my mother went on about you this morning.”MoreLess
“Potential? What’s that mean? Potential for what? She hardly talked to me.”
“As a model or something. What else? She certainly doesn’t see you as a doctor or a lawyer. Not that you couldn’t be,” he quickly added. “It’s the way she looks at all girls and other women. My father calls it feminine envy. All women, he says, think someone else is prettier and never think they’re pretty enough. When he starts complaining about that, they r...eally go at it. I sit back and watch. It’s better than the soap opera he’s in.”
I laughed, but I thought he really did see his parents as people cast in roles. Every day of his life was simply another episode. He even talked about his sister as if she were playing a part she had been given at birth. I wondered if he saw himself the same way. Maybe he just didn’t feel real.
“By the way, Summer wasn’t too happy about the way my mother went on about you this morning.”MoreLess
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