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Continue from Episode 5
The supermarket was a good seven blocks from their apartment building. Not a particularly long walk, but an uncomfortable one when you were carrying groceries on a drizzly, late March day. Seth’s fingers felt as chilled as the pizza while it, in turn, was melting and turning the cardboard box into a soggy mess.
There was no closer store. Harrison Village was a sub-sized development constructed 35 miles outside the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe’s gambling and tourist hub. It existed for the convenience of those who employed the casino and hotel staff, not the staff, themselves.
The staff themselves – Seth’s mom was a cocktail waitress while Laurie’s dealt blackjack, which Polly sniffed was much more difficult and classier work – had an almost hour-long commute, and few amenities when they were home. Harrison Village was mostly drab apartment buildings, tiny track row houses, a few fast-food places, stores, gas stations, laundromats, a car dealership, and a beauty salon that the women who worked in Lake Tahoe proper wouldn’t dream of setting foot into.
Once home, Laurie and Seth took the stairs to the fifth floor. The elevator wasn’t working and, when it did, it smelled like someone had taken a whizz in it. They passed Seth’s apartment, where the general stink of pee was masked by the odor of sweet, burning vegetables that wafted out along wisps of smoke Seth’s mom tried her best to mask by rolling towels and stuffing them under the door whenever her boyfriend was visiting.
Seth picked up the pace. Laurie had to double-time to keep up with him, huffing, “Did he bring back your mom’s car yet?”
“He’s never bringing it back.”
“Your mom is so nice, Seth.” Laurie’s mom was a lot of things. Everyone said how pretty she was, how beautifully she dressed, how sweet her voice could sound – when she wanted it to – and how good she was with numbers, either cards or dollars. But nobody ever said Laurie’s mom was nice.
“Too nice.” Seth paused by the door to Laurie’s apartment, waiting for her to fish out the key she wore around her neck.
Continue to Episode 7
About the Author
Alina Adams wrote the “As the World Turns” tie-ins, “Oakdale Confidential” and “The Man From Oakdale,” and co-wrote “Guiding Light’s” “Jonathan’s Story.” She was the Creative Content Producer for “Another World Today,” and worked on the 2013 relaunches of “All My Children” and “One Life To Live.” Her books include romance novels, figure skating murder mysteries, and the historical family saga, “The Nesting Dolls,” from HarperCollins. Read more at: AlinaAdams.com
