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“You can’t have my pickle,” I warned.“I wouldn’t dream of risking it,” he said, taking another chip and eating it. “So don’t tell me you don’t have a visiting nurse or anything checking on Donnie during the day. You can’t do both jobs at the same time. Not even you can be two places at once.”I shook my head, finished chewing, “Insurance won’t pay for a home health care worker, not even twice a week. So it’s me.”“Have you called the church secretary? June might know somebody who’d help out.”“I don’t think so. We pretty much stopped going to church when my mother passed away, and I wouldn’t want to impose on them. Rema said if there was anything she could do, to let her know, but that’s just something people say. I don’t think she wants to come babysit my dad and make him drink water and go to physical therapy.”“Give her a chance to help out, Sarah Jo. Call her up and ask if she knows anybody who’d check in on him in the afternoons. There’s no way you can handle everything yourself
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“No junk food. No booze. And walk around the house a couple of times while I’m gone. I mean it,” I said.“Maybe I can talk to your brother later, get him to come over and check your figures over.”I nearly groaned aloud. “I don’t need Ryan to check my math, Dad. I was giving you final approval as the owner. The numbers are right.”Back at the yard, I helped unload a delivery and inventoried it. I filled a couple of online orders to load in the morning for delivery and took another one by phone. The delivery business was really generating some orders, I thought proudly. Not that my father would ever acknowledge that without Ryan counting each board and nail first. I waited on a couple customers and called my friend Cat during a lull in business.“Hey,” I said, “how’s life in the city?”“Louder than home, but nobody’s up in my business all the time. How’s life back home? Does everybody down at the coffee shop know when you get your period yet?”“Probably,” I laughed, “but I better have
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Sarah JoWell, that was a bad idea.I came home at lunch to go over some lumberyard orders with Dad. They were perfectly fine. I just wanted him to feel involved because he’d been so down lately. I thought it would be a pick me up for him, get him to show some interest in work. Or, it could backfire. I should have known.“I just wish Ryan would take over the lumberyard. There’s no way you can keep all of this straight, honey,” Dad said sadly. “It was so brave of you to take it on, but I knew when you wanted to try that it was a mistake. Look at you, hustling home at lunch to see if I can check your work, just like I used to have to go over your math homework with you.”I grit my teeth. “Things are going perfectly fine at the lumberyard, Dad,” I said. “I don’t need you to check my work, I just want you to look these invoices over and see if there’s anything you want to add.”“There’s no time to teach you everything you’d need to know,” he said, patting my hand and shaking his head with
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“Who did you run into?”“Whitney. With Winston Charles. They came out of the store carrying gas station coffee in Styrofoam cups, arm in arm like a white trash Tiffany’s ad. Can you believe that?” he said, shaking his head.“That had to be really hard, seeing her unexpectedly like that, running into her with him.”“She’s trash, Luke. I didn’t see it before. I thought she was different. But she’s just as ignorant and low class as everyone else in this shit town,” Ryan said. I didn’t respond. I didn’t comment that I, not to mention his blood relatives, lived in this shit town. That we didn’t deserve his contempt. I waited, reminded myself that he was hurting.“Life can be crazy,” I said.“Life? That bitch is crazy. She had me. I’m a fucking project manager at the bank now. I was already pulling six figures before the promotion. I got her a goddamn Birkin bag for her birthday. She had her nails done every week. Cleaning lady, keto meal service—what kind of woman gives that up for a dipsh
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LukeSince Ryan and Donnie were in the living room having a beer with the TV blaring, I took a chance.“You want to go for a walk? You can see the fireflies come out. You used to chase those things all over. Come back with a jarful of them to use as a nightlight.”“Yeah, well, I’ve stopped killing God’s creatures for indoor lighting now, you’ll be glad to know,” she said uncomfortably. She looked like she was shrinking away from me, like she wanted to say no. Any second she was going to say she had a headache. Ryan came in and basically rescued her. I saw her smile at him, the opposite of the way she’d looked when he interrupted us out by the grill earlier.“Are you ready to go?” he said.“Go? Sarah Jo and I were getting ready to go for a walk,” I said.“I thought we’d go get a drink, just the two of us. Come on. I’ll buy you a beer,” he said eagerly.I couldn’t see any way around it without making it awkward. I shrugged. “Sure, Ryan, let’s go. I’ll drive,” I said, not wanting him beh
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“Because I’m Ryan’s little sister,” I said tightly.“No, dammit. Because—”I felt a little breathless when our eyes met. I wanted him to say that I mattered to him more than just as Ryan’s sister. But then Ryan chose six o’clock to show up for a six o’clock dinner.“Hey there, little sister,” he said boisterously. I wondered if he’d been drinking already. His tone was jolly, his face flushed. Ryan was never jolly when he was sober. He wasn’t a drunk like our father always had been, but since I’d come back to town, I’d noticed he seemed to be drinking pretty regularly. “How about you bring me one of those cold ones?” he said, nodding to Luke’s beer can.Reflexively, I turned back to the house.“I hope she hasn’t been bugging you. Sarah Jo always was a little tag along,” Ryan said. He said it affectionately, like I was still his pesky little sister who was always digging in the dirt or following him up to the treehouse.I brought him his beer and hung around for a minute while Ryan stee
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