Chapter 12
Eden
Later that morning I made what had to be the most awkward and unpleasant phone call I’d ever had to make. It ranked up there with the time I’d had to call my mother from school to tell her I’d been suspended. My friends and I’d been caught with a flask at a school dance over the weekend. It had been in my handbag so I’d been singled out as the ringleader. The principal had made us stew over the weekend by waiting until the following Monday to dole out our punishments. I didn’t want to replicate the dread I’d felt so I placed the call as soon as I knew Margo would be in her office.
“Hi, Margo, it’s Eden,” I said. I’d tried to quiet my nerves with a short yoga session and some deep breathing prior to placing the call, but to no avail. I still felt ready to hurl at any minu
