Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout novel · Chapter 48 of 48
Chapter 48: One Candle
On the first Saturday in June, Hazel turned one, and I was thirty weeks along and could not see my own boots.
The test had gone pink in the Copper Room's ladies' room last winter, and nobody had asked whose that time, either.
The patio looked like my twenty-fourth birthday and nothing like it.
The pool lights were on. The string lights were on.
Forty paper plates sat on the long table, and every single one of them had been used.
The taco truck was parked at the side gate with its generator humming, and the man inside it had arrived early and was the happiest person there.
My crew stood around the cooler in their clean shirts, arguing about a panel.
The trade-school friends had come, all of them, with their kids.
The apprentice and his new wife had come straight from a week at the lake, sunburned in matching places.
The cook ran the dessert table and had threatened Breck twice.
The woman with the silver bob sat in the best chair with her cane across her knees, being waited on, and enjoying it.
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