Page 53 of Every Other Weekend


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I’ll read it tomorrow.

Jolene:

Now my butt hurts and I feel nauseous.

Adam:

Night, Jo.

Jolene:

Thanks, Adam.

I immediately read Jolene’s essay.

My eyes didn’t bleed once.

IN BETWEEN

Jolene:

Forget everything you were going to do today. I have a plan.

Adam:

I feel like I need to be alarmed.

Jolene:

The word you were looking for is excited. I would also have accepted super psyched.

Adam:

You do know that we have school today.

Jolene:

And tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. You can’t tell me you’re looking forward to that.

Adam:

My mom’s an incredible cook and I make a mean sweet potato pie.

Jolene:

And I like eating my weight in mashed potatoes. Doesn’t change that fact that I’d rather stick a fork in my eye than share a meal with my mom and her boyfriend. Also save me a piece of sweet potato pie.

Adam:

That’s what you’re doing? Nothing with your dad and Shelly?

Jolene:

I’d rather stick two forks in the same eye and do something equally terrible to the other. Thankfully, no. Not this year. Are you seeing your dad?

Adam:

No. We’re driving out to my grandparents’ and it’s a long drive.