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Show Inside Out, 91 Chapter 20: Terra Terra watched Denver Bingham swagger up to the front of the class. Disgusting. She couldn't believe any girl would fall for him-but they all did. He read his poem, pausing to run his fingers through his hair which he wore hanging in his eyes. The poem sounded familiar to Terra, but she wasn't sure. Maybe it just reminded her of something. It was actually pretty good, which made her suspicious. When he finished, all the girls sighed. Disgusting. Then Andli West got up and read her poem. It was about her mom. It actually wasn't half bad either. Terra thought about Andli's mother. She was probably the kind of mother who made pot roast every Sunday. Terra's mom used to makepozole every Sunday. It would simmer in the pot while they were at church, and then be perfect by the time they got home. Heavenly stuff. Terra hadn't had it for months. What happens when a mom stops being a mom and a dad stops being a dad? Terra even felt like she was the mom sometimes, and her mom was a little girl. No, it wasn't like Mom was a little girl. It was like she was a ghost. Even when she was there, talking all the time, she wasn't really there. Where was she? Was she still at the underpass with the crumbling concrete? And Dad-he was even more of a ghost. Terra lived in a haunted house. |