Free Finding Carrie by C. E. Snyder Page B

following Isaac into the kitchen.
    “How about two pizzas, pepperoni on one and mushrooms on the other?” Isaac asked, dialing the phone.
    “That sounds good. I don’t want any mushrooms on my pizza. That’s gross,” Sabrina said, teasing her sister. Sierra didn’t say a word; she just gave her sister a mean look.
    Carrie stayed behind in the living room, watching the commotion in the kitchen. Isaac was talking on the phone. She turned to look at the pictures all around the living room gallery. There were so many pictures: some of the girls, some with Isaac in costumes, and a lot of the two of them, Isaac and Carrie. In the pictures, they were always kissing or touching one another, looking into one another’s eyes, laughing and holding one another. “This man loves me,” she said under her breath. Looking around the room, it was obvious that they were in love, and now, more than anything, she wanted to remember.
     

     
    “If you’re done eating, please put your dishes in the sink,” Isaac said to the girls when they finished eating. Sabrina picked up her plate, put it in the sink, and disappeared down the hall. Before anyone knew it, music was coming from the bedroom again.
    “Ugh, doesn’t she know any other song? I hate it,” Sierra said, putting her plate in the sink and her hands on her ears.
    “Sierra, you know she needs to practice. She’s going to play that song on Saturday,” Isaac told her. He put his dish in the sink and picked up a towel to wipe off the table.
    “I know, Isaac, but I can’t stand it anymore,” Sierra said, disappearing down the hall.
    “Are you done?” Isaac asked Carrie, who was sitting quietly staring out the window. She turned her head up to look at Isaac in the face.
    “Oh, yes,” she said, handing him the plate.
    “Would you like to watch a movie with me?” Isaac asked, holding the plate just above Carrie’s head.
    “Sure,” she said, standing up. Isaac put the plate in the sink and followed Carrie into the living room.
    “What do you want to watch?” Isaac asked as he showed her the movie collection.
    “I don’t know. What would you like to watch?” She crouched down by the cupboard. “There is a lot here.” Isaac laughed softly.
    “You should see the collection at the house,” Isaac said.
    “The house?” Carrie asked.
    “Yeah, you have a house in the town where you grew up,” he said, taking her hand to show her a picture of it. “You had it before we were married, so we go there every now and then to visit your family.” Carrie stared at the picture for a long moment then turned to look at Isaac.
    “Can we go there?” Carrie asked.
    “Sure, we can go Sunday. I don’t have to go to rehearsal until Wednesday. Your brother and sister-in-law can watch the girls. Maybe if you are in your own house, you might remember something,” Isaac said.
    “My brother, he lives here?” Carrie asked.
    “Yes,” Isaac said. “In Manhattan. They were going to take the girls overnight on Saturday anyway, but I’m sure they could take them for a couple of days.”
    “Oh. What movie do you want to watch?” Carrie asked, going back to the movies.
    “Pick one,” Isaac suggested.
    “How about this one?” Carrie asked, holding a movie in the air. Isaac took it out of her hand and looked at it.
    “Sure, sounds good,” Isaac said, putting it in the machine.
    While watching the movie, Carrie couldn’t help but wonder about her life with the man sitting on the other end of the couch. Could she really love him the way it showed in all the pictures, or could that be just an illusion?
     

     
    Sierra and Sabrina were in the room that they shared. Sabrina was still practicing. Sierra was reading lines from a play she was going to be in for school.
    “Sabrina, can you please stop playing that song?” Sierra asked, lying on her stomach on the bed, papers in hand, as she looked up at her sister. Sabrina stopped playing and sat next to her sister on her bed