My Gym Trainer Counted Every Rep and Then Counted Me In novel · Chapter 9 of 24
Chapter 9: My Sister's Table
I signed the sheet before I could change my mind.
Marisol Ruelas, 33, and a phone number, and under "Distance" I circled the 10K.
I capped the pen and set it back on the clipboard, and the girl at the desk looked at me over her coffee.
"Good for you," she said.
"Don't," I said. "I haven't run it yet."
On Sunday I drove east to Mesa with a tray of tres leches on the passenger seat and my stomach in a knot.
My sister's house was a low pink stucco with a plastic playset in the front yard and a grill smoking in the side yard.
I could smell the carne asada from the curb.
Pilar came out onto the porch wiping her hands on a church-festival T-shirt.
She was five-four, thirty-eight, with dark curls piled on top of her head and a laugh you could hear from the next block.
"You're late," she said.
"Ten minutes."
"You're never late. You're the one who sets the clocks in the house to the minute." She took the cake, narrowed her eyes, and looked me up and down. "What is wrong with your face?"
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