House of Mirrors: Chapter 16

L aylee opened her laptop. The morning rush still reverberated off the walls around her a putrid stench of guilt hovered in the air. Rikki’s hat hung perilously from the banister a testament to the clashing of wills that had occurred. Cookie’s silver boot the one with the giant glittery star lay on its side near the door. Accusing.

There had been some yelling.

A little bit then some more. I’ll take them to Stock N Socks in the afternoon. A few new accessories and all will be forgotten.

Cassandra was humming in the laundry room Sarah still upstairs. Laylee focused on the open laptop in front of her. The cursor in the search bar blinked rapidly expectantly piling on the pressure… As if I need more stress in my life. She wiggled her fingers and began typing: How to fix a marriage. For a split second she toyed with inserting the word bad before marriage but that would have been ridiculously inaccurate. Her marriage wasn’t bad. In fact it didn’t even really need fixing. Just a teensy weensy tune-up. She deleted the whole thing and started over. How to make a great marriage even greater.

There. That felt better.

An ad popped on the side of the page “Win a free vacation to Turks and Caicos!!!!” She clicked on the photo. Saw a bright sandy beach glittering blue ocean and one artistically placed palm tree.