Visitors

Kristo

As soon as Amaya was out the door, I rolled out of bed and started taking care of everything that needed to be done for the day ahead. I had so much to get ready and what seemed like such little time to do it in. No matter how much work I put in, this place was never going to be up to standard for my nonna, and even if I scrubbed this place down on my hands and knees for the rest of the day, she would still sweep in and find something wrong with it in the first five minutes.

That reminded me, I had to call her. I had told her that Jolene was going to be here today, but I had a feeling it might have slipped her mind, and I didn’t want her to turn up to that kind of a surprise.

“Nonna?” I greeted her as soon as she picked up the phone. At once, she started rambling away to me.

“Are you going to cancel on me?” she demanded. “I thought you would. When you told me to come to your place, I was sure you were—”

“I’m not canceling on you,” I cut her off calmly. I had somewhat expected t