“N Is for Nighttime” The Encyclopedia of an Ohio Girl in Love, by Mallory EvansMallory scrubbed at the cuffs of her jeans in the bathroom sink, trying hard not to get muddy water everywhere.
She wished she could have done this last night, but after she had washed her underwear and a couple of T-shirts in the tub and brought them to her room to dry, she’d heard His truck pulling in, the rough engine thudding through the thin walls of the house.
She would wear these jeans to school with wet cuffs, but it wasn’t like anyone would notice. At least not any more than anyone had noticed that she wore the same two pairs of jeans, three T-shirts, and two sweaters day after day.
She shivered into her damp underpants and T-shirt, glad for her dad’s heavy wool sweater, which her mom had somehow ove
