Snowed In
Chapter One
"It'll be fun!"
Those were my mom's words. It'll be fun!
At the time, I'd thought so too.
Her idea of fun was to pack up her divorced middle-aged life and move up north. Way up north. Where winters are cold, snow and ice exist in abundance, and my dad could become a distant memory.
Not that I blamed her for wanting to get away from it all. Dad recently announced that he planned to remarry, and I'm not exactly thrilled with the prospect of having a stepmother. Marsha isn't wicked or anything. Actually she asked me to be one of her bridesmaids, but I told her that I needed to think about it. I've never been a bridesmaid before, and I'm not sure I want my first time to be at my dad's wedding. Because it's totally weird thinking of him with a wife who isn't my mom. And okay, I resent that he's going to marry someone else. It feels like he's not only betraying Mom, but betraying me.
So when Mom told me she wanted to move and asked, "What do you think?" I replied, "Let's do it!"
Of course, that was before I was standing in the front ... read full excerpt from: Snowed In ebook
