![]() ![]() ![]() I turn the key until the lock clacks, depress the lever and push a shoulder against the door. Remember?” I won’t bother to tell her that other girls her age didn’t wait until I was a legal adult I prefer to let her assume she has something to teach me. I arch a brow at her as the key slips into the dead bolt with a metallic scrape. Where do you expect me to live?” There’s no rancor behind the slurred words, and luckily she seems to deduce as much from my tone. ![]() “I said I was turning eighteen tonight, not thirty. I squint at her, because I’m swaying and she’s swaying and our movements are not synchronized. Now she’s giggling, both hands over her mouth, muffling the sound-though maybe I can’t hear her because my ears are still ringing from the concert in which she was on stage with an electric bass in her skilled hands while I watched from the VIP section. Her question is whispered in response to me shushing her as I’m trying to fit the key in the lock and get the two of us into the house and into my room without any interference. ![]() Older girls are the worst offenders when it comes to these expectations of independence, and the one leaning against me now is no different. Movie stars are believed to spring fully formed into apartment-acquiring adulthood. If you’re a celebrity and over twelve, people don’t expect you to live with your parents, if they even imagine that you have parents. ![]()
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