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A/n: Special thanks to d for letting me know I had the year wrong in the last chapter. That's what I get for switching things around a bit. Also thanks to Princess Pinkyfor giving me a brainstorm for this chapter. I'm not planning one on Melinda Warren, but I decided to put a hint of her in for you. Sorry, I know it's not quite the same, but it was a big help for this chapter. And of course, thanks to everyone for the reviews!
-Katie
Tales of December
a story by Ryeloza
Meli: December 22, 2024
"Melinda Warren was our age when she got married! Can you believe that? Imagine getting married now. And then having a baby just a year later!" Meli shook her head and then looked up from her notes to gauge Nora's reaction. Her cousin hadn't even moved; she still lay on her back, her head leaning off of the edge of Meli's bed. "Nora!" Meli slapped her leg lightly.
"Give me a break, Mel. Tomorrow is the last day of school before break and you want to worry about homework? Mr. Telsar isn't even collecting our outlines until after vacation."
"I thought we agreed to get it done now so we wouldn't have to do it on break. Remember that?" Meli rested her elbows on her crossed legs and dropped her chin into her hands.
"I changed my mind. Let's go out or something."
"It's nine o'clock on a Sunday."
"Don't be a stick in the mud, Meli."
Meli bit back a groan; Nora was becoming less and less recognizable as her life-long friend by the day and she wasn't quite sure how to deal with the fact. Not to mention that the idea of getting together to do research on their mothers' half of the family had been her idea to begin with. As if she didn't have enough to worry about trying to figure out what to do about the fact that her father had been born in 1924.
"It is interesting, you know," she pointed out weakly. To her, the information was, but she knew that this was no selling point for Nora. She couldn't have been less interested.
"Whatever. I'm going to split, Mel. You sure you don't want to come?"
Meli shook her head and picked up pile of letters she had found between Melinda Warren and her husband George. Sad as it might have been, the letters were certainly more interesting than watching Nora and her boyfriend make out. "No. You go ahead. I'm going to just finish this up."
Nora sat up and looked quizzically at Meli for a moment before sighing. "So she got married at seventeen, huh?"
Meli grinned.