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Sadie | Leo

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3:23 PM

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leo?

do you ever just get really
frustrated with your family?

sometimes

why?

because i love my mom (obvs)
but she's just so COMPETITIVE
all the time

there's a restaurant across the street

from my mom's, and they're all so

nice there, but since they're competitors

to our restaurant, my mom hates them

they like, invited us over for lemonade
yesterday and even though we were
free mom said NO to lemonade!

and I don't really even know anyone there
but they seem interesting

my mom is weird

...

lots of info right there.

sorry

I needed to vent but no one wants to
listen anymore

...

leo?

...

sorry
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        Sadie sighed and closed the app. She had always had trouble with boundaries, even though she'd claimed to Leo that they'd created no boundaries. She knew that she tended to scare people away, but once she found someone interesting all she wanted to do was share everything with them.

        And now she'd scared him away.

        Something across her messy room caught her eye - a book with a piece of paper holding the place, like a bookmark. A neat grid filled the paper, with slots to show when she'd read and what she'd thought of the section that she'd read.

        Summer reading.

        Sadie groaned but made her way over to the book, grabbed it, taking the paper out in the process and returning to her desk. So far, the paper was empty and the book was unread. Since a few weeks of summer had already passed, she decided she might as well start whatever the book was and get this whole reading thing over with.

        She opened the front cover and started to read.

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        After a grueling two hours, she'd made it through the first chapter. Those hours, of course, involved stops to the bathroom, to get water, to get snacks, and to sneak peeks onto her phone. Basically anything to get out of doing this. She liked stories, sure, it was just the reading she didn't like. She'd rather watch movies or TV shows or listen to musical soundtracks instead - she could live without books.

        "Sadie!" a voice called from downstairs - her moms'. "Dinner!"

        "Coming!" Sadie yelled back and scrambled out of her desk chair and down the stairs, the book already forgotten.

        Because their mom owned a restaurant, she sure knew how to cook good food and Sadie and Caleb were spoiled in the food department. Her mom made dinner, and Sadie got a little bit of that responsibility- like when her mom got home late. Her mom tried her best to make vegetarian/vegan meals, and since Sadie wasn't very skilled in the culinary department, she tended to make freezer/instant foods. Tonight, Sadie's mom had made dinner - some sort of pasta skillet with tofu.

        Sadie made her way to the kitchen - a rather large room with white appliances and white backsplash (everything white) and an island in the middle with stools donned with leather. They normally ate their meals on the island, only switching to the dining room when they had guests.

        The rest of her family was already there by the time she walked in, Caleb kneeling on his stool to reach for some sort of dish, her Mom chastising Caleb and telling him to be careful.

        Her mom was a pleasant woman who looked a lot like Sadie, with soft curves at the hips and bright brown eyes, curly dark brown hair to her shoulders.

        Sadie smiled to herself. As much as she complained about her family, they were hers and she loved them. Everyone had faults, right? It seemed like her mom's only flaw was her competitiveness, which sometimes went just a leeeeetle overboard.

        That was okay, though, because Sadie figured she'd never have to worry about forming a personal relationship with the people at Morrisons. Most likely, they'd see each other in passing until she went to college, where she'd never think of them again.