Earth shattering news
It was a rotten joke to play, and he knew it! My brother got off the phone with his friend Patrick and fought a smile as he looked at me gravely. "I have terrible news Abby, something has just happened." There was a pause. At only 11 years old, I had never heard my brother deliver bad news, and he had never spoken the least bit compassionately to me for anything! Whatever it was must have been terrible. "It's Jordan Knight, from the new kids on the block!" He proceeded. Oh, God! No! Not the love of my 11 year old life! Not my handsome hot-stepping, falsetto singing, rat-tail having, Bostonian, boy-band beauty! Not Jordan Knight! "Chris, Abby! Time to go out to dinner at the Sizzler! Everyone in the Volvo!" The Volvo was our safety mobile and my mothers pride and joy in the 80's. The Sizzler was our favorite all you can eat buffet and a place my mother could have a few glasses of boxed wine while we snarfed. My brother had the ...
