The Sweetest September (Home in Magnolia Bend)
“What a shitfest.
For a good ten seconds, she, John and his mother stood looking at one another while the rest of the house moved around them. A kid darted across the hallway yelling about a rubber bracelet, pots and pans clanked in the kitchen somewhere beyond John’s left shoulder. All seemed perfectly normal, but it was far, far, far from normal. Like maybe in the next stratosphere of not normal.
“Well, that was, uh, awkward,” John’s mother said with a rueful shrug, her eyes darting fr...om Shelby to John and then back to Shelby again. “I’m sorry.”
She’d settled sharp eyes on Shelby. “It’s okay,” Shelby said because the woman seemed to be waiting on her to grant her pardon.
“Mom, this is my friend Shelby Mackey. Shelby, this is my mom, Francesca Beauchamp. Everyone calls her Fancy.”
The older woman, who barely came to John’s shoulder, wiped her hand on her apron and extended it.MoreLess
For a good ten seconds, she, John and his mother stood looking at one another while the rest of the house moved around them. A kid darted across the hallway yelling about a rubber bracelet, pots and pans clanked in the kitchen somewhere beyond John’s left shoulder. All seemed perfectly normal, but it was far, far, far from normal. Like maybe in the next stratosphere of not normal.
“Well, that was, uh, awkward,” John’s mother said with a rueful shrug, her eyes darting fr...om Shelby to John and then back to Shelby again. “I’m sorry.”
She’d settled sharp eyes on Shelby. “It’s okay,” Shelby said because the woman seemed to be waiting on her to grant her pardon.
“Mom, this is my friend Shelby Mackey. Shelby, this is my mom, Francesca Beauchamp. Everyone calls her Fancy.”
The older woman, who barely came to John’s shoulder, wiped her hand on her apron and extended it.MoreLess
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