Chapter 8
My mom let me sleep until noon; it was Saturday, after all. But no later—she’d invited my grandma over and she’d get here in a few hours and I couldn’t sleep the whole day away and could I please run to the store and grab some milk and zucchini?
“And how will you possibly manage when I go away to college?” I asked, yawning as I slipped on my boots.
“Community college is always an option!”
“Yeah, sure,” I said with a smile and a roll of my eyes. Joking aside, there was no chance in hell I’d be going to community college; my mom would never stand for it. Not that she had her sights set on me getting into an Ivy League school, but she was a big stickler on keeping up my grades so I could go somewhere good.
Which meant I would really have to do something about math… But that wor
