A Nantucket Season by Katie Winters

Author:Katie Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katie Winters

Chapter Twelve

The Thursday before Saturday’s music festival, Ella awoke at her house with her bandmates, slipped into an oversize shirt, and wandered into the kitchen to find her bandmates eating cereal, chatting about music, brewing another pot of coffee, and basically pretending they were twenty-three again. It filled her heart with longing. Will came in soon after, kissed her, and poured them both bowls of cereal with fruit as Audrey clapped her hands and said, “All right. We don’t have long to practice, so we’d better get started.”

Ella cocked her head. “What do you mean? We have all day.”

Audrey winced, then gave Will a look that meant she’d made a mistake. She always made that face when she hit a wrong note on her keyboard.

“What’s up?” Ella demanded, her heart rate rising.

“You’ll find out soon enough,” Will said, shaking his head at Audrey. “Audrey, I swear, you can never keep a secret, can you?”

Ella got her answer around noon when the doorbell rang. It was Laura, Alana, Julia, Scarlet, Anna, Catherine, Ivy, and Greta— all the women of The Copperfield House. And they’d come to kidnap her for the bachelorette party “of the century.”

“Oh my gosh!” Ella spun back toward her room to pack an overnight bag just as Audrey scurried past with her own bag.

“I can’t believe it, but your family is letting me party with you guys,” she said, high-fiving Scarlet on her way out. “I almost gave it away this morning.”

“Audrey!” Julia laughed. “We swore you to secrecy.”

“My husband knows that isn’t possible,” Audrey said.

Ella flung her suit, her makeup, her face cream, and a few other essentials into a backpack and hugged and kissed Will goodbye just as the rest of the band were deciding on what to do for their “day off.”

“Good thing you guys have mastered our new songs already,” Ella joked. “Otherwise, I would have to cancel my bachelorette party.”

“Go! Have fun! And don’t think about music for a change!” Henry ordered.

“Yeah, right!” Ella quipped.

Ella jumped into a car with her daughter, Julia, and Alana, who turned up the radio— a horrible song from the nineties that Julia and Alana had loved, and Ella had hated.

“Ella, we won’t torture you for the entire bachelorette party,” Julia joked before adding to Laura, “Your mom is so pretentious. Did she force you to listen to only the most important albums growing up? Did she talk to you about Lou Reed when you were too young to stand up?”

Laura burst out laughing. “Mom and Dad let us listen to whatever we wanted to, but I think it hurt them a lot.”

Julia nodded knowingly.

The first stop on their bachelorette tour was at a beautiful winery along the bluffs, where a handsome winemaker led them through the vineyard and set them up at a table in the sunlight. There, he spoke eloquently about his family’s tradition of winemaking on the island as he allowed them to sample many of their homemade wines.

“Our sister is getting married,” Alana explained as they clinked their first tiny sample glasses together.

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