Chapter Twenty-One
From: Alivia Howard
Sent: Sat 5 Apr, 15:17 pm
To: Sarah Henley
Subject: This is my moping face
Dear Sarah
Thanks for your call this morning. I should have known Adam would send you an SOS on my behalf! Once again, I’m really sorry for not coming home this holiday. I just can’t face my dad at the moment, and I think it might be better for him and my mom to have some time to work through things without me there. They have an appointment with a counsellor on Wednesday. My mom keeps threatening to not show up, but I think, in the end, she’ll go.
I shall now do my best to follow your instruction to NOT MOPE. As you know, I’ve never been particularly good at moping, so NOT MOPING should be easy. No doubt I’ll find a distraction soon enough … Oh! Squirrel! (That was me
