Back On Blossom Street
“Hoping to patch things up with her future mother-in-law, Alix had readily accepted. She made a bowl of potato salad and baked a rhubarb cake, one of Jordan’s favorites.
Alix looked forward to being part of the Turner family, which she’d always seen as a delightful bonus to marrying Jordan. It was invitations such as this backyard barbecue that she’d longed for as a child. If her parents had friends over it was so they could drink together. What food there was on those occasions came from a fast...-food joint.
When the kids at school talked about camping trips and picnics, Alix had nothing to say. Not once in the entire time she was growing up had she walked through the woods or experienced a family outing.
Her fantasy family in the closet did all those things, though, and that was where Alix laughed and played and escaped.
Jordan picked her up before church and placed the salad in a cooler he’d brought in his trunk.
“That cake doesn’t happen to be rhubarb, does it?” he asked, eyeing the glass dish hopefully.MoreLess
Alix looked forward to being part of the Turner family, which she’d always seen as a delightful bonus to marrying Jordan. It was invitations such as this backyard barbecue that she’d longed for as a child. If her parents had friends over it was so they could drink together. What food there was on those occasions came from a fast...-food joint.
When the kids at school talked about camping trips and picnics, Alix had nothing to say. Not once in the entire time she was growing up had she walked through the woods or experienced a family outing.
Her fantasy family in the closet did all those things, though, and that was where Alix laughed and played and escaped.
Jordan picked her up before church and placed the salad in a cooler he’d brought in his trunk.
“That cake doesn’t happen to be rhubarb, does it?” he asked, eyeing the glass dish hopefully.MoreLess
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