Peas And Carrots (2016)
“Wait!”
“What?” Hope’s voice is flat. At least she took off those big old sweats; in jeans and a T-shirt, she looks normal, the kind of normal other people in the store have, confidently pushing their carts. Hope looks more normal than I do, stuck on stupid here with a little piece of paper in my hand. And a cart. When was the last time I got groceries by myself? When was the last time I was pushing one of these things instead of riding in it? Oh, that’s right, never.
“What, Dess?” Hope asks again, sounding impatient. “We’ve only got seventeen minutes before we’re supposed to meet at the self-check.”
“I—I don’t know how,” I tell her, frustration wrapping the words in barbed wire. I hear the nasty tone in my voice, but I can’t stop it. “I don’t do all this domestic shit. I didn’t have to shop at my group home. They just fed us, like normal people.”
“Normal?” Hope sneers, stiffening. “You know the only other places where people who aren’t sick or old just get fed and don’t have to shop?
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