Change Up by Ann Natalie

Author:Ann, Natalie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

16

The Lecture

Kaelyn was getting ready to leave for Harris’s to get her watch when her phone went off. She grabbed it quick and saw the text from her mother asking if she could talk.

No shocker on what this might be about. Rather than call her, she said she’d be over in about fifteen minutes. Since it was in the same development as Harris, it was on the way. Might as well get it over with.

She sent another text to Harris to say she had a stop before she got to his house but would be there soon. It’s not like he had a schedule to adhere to or needed to go anywhere so she was sure he was fine with it.

She heaved a big sigh when she parked her SUV in the driveway of her old childhood home and got out. She really did love growing up in Paradise Place.

There’d always been so much to do. So many kids around. They’d hop on their bikes or scooters, and just race around the quieter roads, go hang out on the playground. As they got older, late nights playing baseball or volleyball, making out with boys in the pavilion.

Lots of good memories here.

Poor choices in boys back then too. Not much different than when she was an adult.

It seemed like her luck or her decisions were pretty stinky in the past when it came to the opposite sex.

Which was why she was so cautious now and she was going to damn well make sure her parents knew and gave her some space.

She opened the front door and made her way to the back of the house where she knew her parents would be in the sunroom. It was their place of choice most times.

“I’m here,” she said. “Let the lecture begin.”

Her mother frowned, her father laughed. “No lecture,” her mother said.

“What did you want to talk to me about then? I’m sure Evan was over here the minute he left my house. Probably breaking a few speed limits on the way. Good thing there are some state troopers in the development to get him out if he got a ticket.”

“Now leave Evan alone,” her mother said. Evan had always been a Mama’s boy, but he refused to acknowledge it. “He means well and is only looking out for you.”

“I don’t need anyone to look out for me.”

“You haven’t had the best of luck with men,” her father said, just rubbing salt on a gaping wound. What was family for but to make you feel like crap half the time or remind you of your failings?

“And you think I haven’t learned my lesson there?” she asked.

“I’m sure you think you have,” her mother said. “But you don’t know that much about this man, do you?”

“I know more than you guys give me credit for. He’s a nice guy. A great guy. Harris. That’s his name. Harris Walker and we can say it.”

“We know his name as does half of New York and every baseball fan out there,” her father said.

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