Back Home at Firefly Lake by Jen Gilroy

Author:Jen Gilroy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

“Your mom looks different.” Kylie nudged Amy’s arm across the table. They were tucked into a two-person booth in the middle of the North Woods Diner, a plate of French fries topped with gravy and cheese curds between them. Her grandma called the dish “poutine,” and Amy had never eaten it before moving to Firefly Lake.

“Mom looks exactly the same to me. Aunt Mia’s sweater looks pretty on her, though.” Amy wrapped her hands around her warm mug of cocoa.

Mrs. Liz made the best cocoa, the best poutine and, given the aroma of meat, vegetables, and spices that wafted from the diner kitchen, she must make good chili, too.

“No, she’s got a new look to her.” Kylie grinned. “Like Mia looked when she and Nick got together. Once they had s-e-x.” She dropped her voice and spelled the word out.

Amy stared at the marshmallows bobbing in her mug. Even though spelling was hard for her, she knew that word. “My mom doesn’t even have a boyfriend.” Although she’d tried to get her mom and Coach Luc together, the two of them were friends, nothing more.

“You don’t have to have a boyfriend to have sex.” Kylie pointed to Amy’s mom, who was behind the diner counter with Mrs. Liz. “Look at her and then look at Coach Luc.” She jerked her head in the other direction, where the coach sat with Amy’s uncle Nick and a few of the hockey dads by one of the diner’s curtained front windows. “It looks like they’re ignoring each other, but they’re actually looking at each other every chance they get. That’s a sign something’s going on.”

“Even if there is, it’s none of your business.” Amy’s stomach got tight, and she moved to the end of the booth, as far away from Kylie as possible. Her mom hated people talking about her, and she always said that gossiping was wrong. She needed friends, but she didn’t need a friend who said things that would make her mom feel bad.

“I thought you wanted them to have dinner together last night.” Kylie’s gaze was still fixed on the coach. “If they went on a date, maybe they did it.” Kylie’s voice rose above the diner clatter.

“Butt out.” She tried to make her voice match the tough words because if anybody from school heard Kylie, they might talk about her mom and the coach and that would make Amy feel bad, too. “It wasn’t a date.” Amy gulped some hot cocoa. “Besides, my mom says sex is special. You should only have it with someone you really care about and who cares about you.”

“Mia says that too.” Kylie’s expression was thoughtful. “But if your mom and Coach Luc did have sex, and if they keep having it, he might become your dad. Then you’d have to share your mom with him, wouldn’t you? She might love him more than you.”

Amy’s chest got as tight as her stomach, and it was hard to breathe. She’d wanted her mom and

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