The Noah Confessions (2008)
“My dad was at work. The house was still and quiet. I stood at the window and looked at the ocean and thought about Jen being out there and about my future in surfing and how I wished I were just a girl whose biggest problem was that she didn’t get a car. But the box was waiting under my bed.
I looked at a picture of my mother that I kept on my desk. She was frozen in that smile I remembered so well, the face that was full of fun ideas and soothing words and whatever I needed in the moment. Unti...l it wasn’t there anymore.
But at least it had been frozen in perfection. How could I begin to change that? Why would my father ask me to?
I pulled down the shades and put on my iPod and then I picked up the manuscript.
To look at me, as you almost never do, you would say that I’m a reasonably, even boringly normal person. Long brown hair, parted down the middle, just like all the girls in Seventeen magazine. Levi’s and T-shirts or sweatshirts identifying some band or food product, a nice sweater on a dress-up day, a skirt when all the girls get together and plan it (we never dress up unless we all agree on it—just like we never go to the bathroom alone).MoreLess
I looked at a picture of my mother that I kept on my desk. She was frozen in that smile I remembered so well, the face that was full of fun ideas and soothing words and whatever I needed in the moment. Unti...l it wasn’t there anymore.
But at least it had been frozen in perfection. How could I begin to change that? Why would my father ask me to?
I pulled down the shades and put on my iPod and then I picked up the manuscript.
To look at me, as you almost never do, you would say that I’m a reasonably, even boringly normal person. Long brown hair, parted down the middle, just like all the girls in Seventeen magazine. Levi’s and T-shirts or sweatshirts identifying some band or food product, a nice sweater on a dress-up day, a skirt when all the girls get together and plan it (we never dress up unless we all agree on it—just like we never go to the bathroom alone).MoreLess
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