Just months before high school graduation Nikki, protagonist of Joya Goffney's My Week With Him, can't wait to get out of her home and her small Texas town. It looks like opportunity has come knocking. She's been invited to audition in California for the musical career she's worked so hard for. When her mother kicks her out of the house...
...well she'll just have to go to California a little early and not come back...
...but her long term best friend, Mal, has an alternate proposal. It's spring break and he wants her to stick it out.
"By the end of the week, I'm going to figure out what it'll take for you to stay with me--then I'm going to make that shit happen."
Things start off well. He even takes her on a spur of the moment trip to Colorado where she's always wanted to go...
...only to have that spoiled by mommy dearest who is panicking because Nikki's little sister, Vae, the innocent good girl of the family, has gone missing. She needs Nikki to find her.
Vae's telling their mother about Nikki's planned trip to California is the reason she kicked Nikki out of the house. During the night Vae has texted Nikki several times:
"I know that after what I did, I don't deserve to know if you're safe. I don't deserve to have you in my life.
You're the only person in my life worth fighting for.
I'm gonna make it up to you. Promise.
Unless you find me first."
On a purrrsonal note, it's a grey, rainy day. But AT LEAST IT ISN'T SNOW!!! And last night a friend texted me asking if I wanted to do a Goodwill run. Well hell yeah!!! So now as I wait for her, imagining the treasures I may find, my disposition is decidedly sunny 🌞.
A great big shout out goes out to the Goodwill people who keep so many good items out of landfills, hire and train people with disabilities, and provide a wonderful shopping venue for those of us who don't have a lot of money, want to shop ethically, or both of the above.
Jules Hathaway
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