Title: Secondhand Communication
Author:
purplekitteTheme: Family--Reunion
Genre: General
Version: PGSM
Rating: PG
The notes on the whiteboard changed day to day.
Study hard.
Have a good day at work, Ami wrote.
Buy eggs, her mother jotted.
Made edamame. Leftovers in the fridge.
Brought in takeout. Have some for tomorrow’s dinner.
Field trip tomorrow. Will be gone early. Might be at Kino-san’s house for a study group-sleepover.
Study hard. High school entrance exams are in two months.
Yes, Mother.
Ami padded quietly down the hall to add a proactive Out of ice cream to the whiteboard.
Her mother left her room to write a quick Pick up apple juice on your way home from school.
They met at the door of the kitchen, in bunny slippers and pajamas, at 9:30 on Tuesday morning. Mother and daughter, at neither work nor school, both exclaimed at the same time, “I’m sick.”