A Perfect Fit by Zoe Lee

Author:Zoe Lee [Lee, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foolish Endeavors LLC
Published: 2018-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Daisy

The 4th of July was going to suck.

There was no way to sugarcoat it, even though Daisy tried… by eating donuts, popsicles, and a double scoop ice cream cone before the parade.

She had prepared herself, because it was the first big Maybelle thing she was doing since Dunk broke up with her, and she knew they’d see each other. So she had been a cliché, spending forever on her hair and makeup and finding just the right outfit to say I’m happy but not evil-gleeful.

Her family was in the parade, riding on the Hart Foundation float because her dad was on the board and her sister-in-law was a Hart. She sat on a folding chair next to Conor, busying herself with a running commentary on everyone, trying to keep him laughing so that she wouldn’t accidentally meet Dunk’s eyes. Or Aden’s or Chase’s or Jamie’s or Leda’s or Seth’s or Jesse’s or Tristan’s.

Gah, there are so many people I can’t meet eyes with anymore, she thought, harrumphing.

During the carnival after the parade, she worked at that booth where you shot a water gun into a clown’s open mouth, filling up the water balloon. Clowns were creepy, so she wasn’t able to just watch people play or it would give her nightmares. She had to face the crowds.

When she had asked Tyler to leave, he’d moved to New York almost immediately. Since she had been the one left in Maybelle—and looked like the kind of girl who was never trouble or made a mistake—everyone had been on her side. And staying close with Jamie, Tristan, and Tyler’s dad helped, of course. Everyone firmly believed Tyler was in the wrong. They didn’t know what he’d done, but they didn’t like it one bit.

But with Dunk, it was… different.

Dunk McCoy wasn’t easy to blame for leaving Princess Daisy.

He had been Maybelle’s football coach for eight seasons, getting the team to the semifinals three times and the championship once. Twenty of his players had gone on to play sports in college. He was the women’s sweetheart, their sugar-free treat, and they loved him fiercely, protectively, and without any shred of competitiveness among themselves over him.

So the good people of Maybelle just didn’t know what to do.

How could Princess Daisy, giant-eyed and adorable, have done something wrong? But how could Coach McCoy, hot and with the sunny, enthusiastic disposition of a golden retriever, have done something wrong? If no one did anything wrong, what the hell had happened?

So there Daisy was, valiantly keeping the open-mouthed clowns out of her sight while simultaneously trying not to meet the eyes of… anyone.

She couldn’t help but wonder if Dunk was having the same experience. Not the unable-to-meet-people’s-eyes thing, because that was frankly impossible to imagine, but watching people not know what to say.

Well, until Karen and Stephanie came up to chat.

There was nothing weird here. They’d already had a relationship post-mortem, complete with way too much wine and The Proposal, their longtime ritual after one of them went through a breakup.

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