Spy-in-Training (2015)
“I am a secret agent (pretty good). I am a student (average). I am a daughter (disappointing). And today, I am a dentist.
It appears that I have unwittingly turned my home into a dentist’s waiting room. Everyone’s on edge. No one meets anyone else’s eyes. Everyone fears the worst. And it’s my presence, my dentist-like presence, that is the cause. It’s been this way since I got up this morning. Now I am sitting through the longest, quietest breakfast ever. Natalie is last to come into the kitchen.... She has her happy morning face on. Then she reads the room. No one needs her brand of positivity right now. She walks up to me and gives me a big hug.
“You suck,” she whispers, voice cold as ice.
Much of the time I spent not sleeping last night I devoted to thinking about what I would say this morning. What kind of apology or explanation would be sufficient to release me from Disappointment Jail where I currently reside? But from the way Mom and Dad are doing their very best to avoid looking at or talking to me, it doesn’t seem as if I’m going to be able to deliver any kind of apology or explanation.MoreLess
It appears that I have unwittingly turned my home into a dentist’s waiting room. Everyone’s on edge. No one meets anyone else’s eyes. Everyone fears the worst. And it’s my presence, my dentist-like presence, that is the cause. It’s been this way since I got up this morning. Now I am sitting through the longest, quietest breakfast ever. Natalie is last to come into the kitchen.... She has her happy morning face on. Then she reads the room. No one needs her brand of positivity right now. She walks up to me and gives me a big hug.
“You suck,” she whispers, voice cold as ice.
Much of the time I spent not sleeping last night I devoted to thinking about what I would say this morning. What kind of apology or explanation would be sufficient to release me from Disappointment Jail where I currently reside? But from the way Mom and Dad are doing their very best to avoid looking at or talking to me, it doesn’t seem as if I’m going to be able to deliver any kind of apology or explanation.MoreLess
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