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“Did she try to do anything to save herself?”
“No. She refused it all. She just lived her life.”
“That’s right. So let’s live. And then you’re getting out of this house.”
“To go where?” I asked.
Hannah took a cigarette out of the pack and handed it to me.
She took one for herself.
“There’s an event my company helped to set up,” she said. “It’s a hockey thing. Some goofy promotion. But it’s a night out. We can get dressed up, maybe even a little slutty. Free food and drinks.”
“I’ll pass.”
“Hazel,” Hannah said. “You have to get out of here once in a while. You need to experience life.Grelliewould be pissed at you right now. You putter around that house, pretend to clean it up, work, and then do nothing.”
“Way to find a subtle way to call me a loser.”
“So, let’s go out for one night then. For fun.”
I shook my head.
Hannah lit her cigarette and took a deep drag.
She coughed for a second and then sighed. “Wow, that tastes way too good.”
She tossed me the lighter.
I looked up to the sky.
Sorry, Gram. Hannah has always been a bad influence.
I put the cigarette between my lips and brought the lighter toward it.
One flick of my thumb and a small flame danced in front of my face.
Just as I touched the flame to the cigarette, the picnic table seat broke.
The old wood saidgoodbye.
Hannah jumped as my butt smacked the ground.
“Hazel! Are you okay?”
“I guess Gram didn’t want me to smoke,” I said.
We both started to laugh.
Hannah smushed her cigarette out on the picnic table and came around to help me up.
We laughed until our eyes filled with tears.
We both knew they were laughing tears though.
They were also tears because we missed Gram.
Hannah nodded to me.
