twenty Leni“Fifty-three thousand five hundred twenty!” I shout my guess to the contestant on The Price Is Right. “Two hundred thousand? Are you stupid?” I yell at the man in the television who just gave his Showcase bid. “There’s no way that could be two hundred thousand.” I glare in disgust.
What a moron.
“Leni girl?” Mimi questions from a few feet away.
I mute the TV. “Yes?”
“Go outside.”
Her command is said with a sweet tone because Mimi couldn’t be anything but kind, but it still makes me do a double take.
“What?”
“Get off the couch, go outside, and get over it.”
I squint toward her in question.
“I know you’re in a funk, but, love, enough is enough. You’ve got to stop letting your parents affect you this way.”
I sigh because I know she’s right.
“Every day that you’re given o
