Riding the Bus With My Sister: a True Life Journey
“He is bracing the bottom, I am clutching the top, and both of us are in shock.
I am leaving, I keep thinking. I am going away from all that I know.
When I glance down the dark stairs beyond Max to the first floor, I see fifteen-year-old Beth, standing with Ringo, looking up at us, her mouth agape.
We are leaving because Mom has made it clear that we must. She wants to be with this man, and he doesn't want us around. Four days ago she told Laura to leave, and Max and I know we're no longer welcome, either.
We are too numb to speak. The sleet outside seems to have moved into my heart.
Dad is waiting in his car in the driveway to take Max to live in his apartment a few hours away in Pennsylvania. Not the mountainous place where we lived long ago, but somewhere new, near factories. Laura will join them there after she finishes her semester at a local college. He will help her rent a room around here until then.
As for me, yesterday he drove to the boarding school that my friend Keiko ente...red last year and begged them for a scholarship.MoreLess
I am leaving, I keep thinking. I am going away from all that I know.
When I glance down the dark stairs beyond Max to the first floor, I see fifteen-year-old Beth, standing with Ringo, looking up at us, her mouth agape.
We are leaving because Mom has made it clear that we must. She wants to be with this man, and he doesn't want us around. Four days ago she told Laura to leave, and Max and I know we're no longer welcome, either.
We are too numb to speak. The sleet outside seems to have moved into my heart.
Dad is waiting in his car in the driveway to take Max to live in his apartment a few hours away in Pennsylvania. Not the mountainous place where we lived long ago, but somewhere new, near factories. Laura will join them there after she finishes her semester at a local college. He will help her rent a room around here until then.
As for me, yesterday he drove to the boarding school that my friend Keiko ente...red last year and begged them for a scholarship.MoreLess
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