Being Emma by Jeanne Harrell

Author:Jeanne Harrell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Western, Westerns, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2014-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

She wasn’t too sure how she made it home, but somehow that’s where she found herself. Janie made it up the stairs and into the apartment. She collapsed into one of the living room chairs and took stock. Yeah, she’d caught her breath, her heart had started up again, but her ears couldn’t believe what they heard. Her brain certainly couldn’t process it.

Diane and Craig… What alternate universe had she stumbled into? Janie had always thought she had a pretty good handle on life, but the past month or so had been mind-blowing. And this latest bombshell from Diane pushed her right over the edge.

Janie leaned forward and put her head on her hands. How had things gotten so screwed up? One minute she was a happy deputy and the next minute she was losing her best male friend to her best female friend. She felt like throwing up again and rushed into the bathroom. She didn’t this time, but decided to lie down on the cool tile anyway. She felt overheated, all of sudden, and that helped. Brushing her teeth helped a little too.

She finally limped to her bedroom and stretched out on the bed. Janie didn’t even bother to take off her clothes – She just pulled back the covers and crawled in. Wrapping herself in a cocoon, she took stock again. Why was she so upset? Diane and Craig would be a good match. Why not? Because… was the only thing she could come up with, at this moment in her cocoon. She pulled the covers over her head.

In the darkness under the comforter, Janie’s mind began a picture show. And the pictures were all of Craig – Craig in a suit being an accountant, Craig in jeans and a cowboy hat, Craig in a kilt at the Scottish fling, Craig giving her archery lessons, and Craig giving her those smoldering looks at the dance.

Hundreds of pictures were displayed on the movie screen inside Janie’s head. There was no relief from them… They kept popping up, like one long movie. Pictures of them together when they were kids, riding the school bus together, Janie punching some kid who was mean to Craig, riding horses, playing in the snow, laughing, eating, talking… It was non-stop and crushed her with feeling. A layer peeled back…

Janie started to cry. She pulled the covers back and sat up in bed. What was happening? She just about never cried. Something had to be pretty bad to make Janie cry. Knowing something had to be done, she searched through her pockets for her cell phone. She snapped it open and made a call.

“Meg,” she sniffed, “my two days off start tomorrow. Would you mind if I came over to see you? … Sorry this is such short notice… Okay… Thanks… I’ll drive up tomorrow.”

Then she made a second call – to Craig. Thankfully, he didn’t pick up, so she left a message telling him that she couldn’t make practice for the next few days – She was going to visit Meg, Carter and Sofia in San Francisco.

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