“Are we taking anything with us?”
Juni shook her head.“There is nothing in this trailer I want.You?”
“Same,” she grunted.“I think I want to torch it.”
Juni shot a quick glance at Clover.“I was thinking the very same thing.”
“You think mom would approve?”
“Hard to say.Mom foolishly loved Ezra.”
“I’m never falling in love.”
Juni sighed.“Probably wise.”
“I don’t want to be a child anymore.”
Suddenly, her little sis was nine going on thirty, with a weariness that had already dimmed her pretty blue eyes.
“I never want to live in a trailer again,” Clover continued.
“Okay.”
“I want to eat macaroni and cheese every night for eternity.”
“Your nine-year-old bowels probably won’t care, but your forty-year-old ones will.”
“Sounds like a problem for future me.”
Juni chuckled.“By the way, I have a lead on a job.”
“Yeah?Where?”
“Coffee shop.”
“Is it hard?”
“I’ve no idea,” Juni admitted.“Only coffee I’ve ever made is instant.”
“I’m going to school, right?Because I want to go to school.No more naps.No more reading the same book over and over again and calling it a lesson.”
“Yes, and okay.”
“I’m going to change my personality.”
Juni raised an eyebrow.“To what?”
“I’m not going to be shy or scared anymore.”Clover’s lower lip quivered, and Juni’s heart bled.“Ezra was the monster under my bed.”
“I know.”
“I hate him.”
“I know.”
“I’m not going to be scared anymore.”
“Good.Neither am I.”Clover smiled at her and Juni shoulder bumped her.“Want me to make you mac and cheese for dinner?”
