College Weekend
Doug takes me to school.
The second Mom’s key turned in the lock, the house filled with her perfume and laughter, and everything Doug and I had done that weekend slammed into me like a freight train. She dropped her suitcase, opened her arms, and I ran into them. She squeezed me so tight I could barely breathe, calling me her baby, saying how grown-up I looked, how proud she was. Doug stood behind her with that easy, handsome smile, but when our...