Child's Play by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

As soon as Tammy had broken the news to her mother about her sexuality, Stacey was consumed with anxiety about whether or not Kate would like her. She was sure she wouldn’t. Her hair was too short and too gray, her clothes were too masculine, she hadn’t worn high heels since her high school graduation at eighteen, but maybe she should buy some. She looked in the mirror, stared into her closet in despair, borrowed a dress from Tammy, and looked like a man in drag in it or a kid on Halloween, and burst into tears. She was driving Tammy insane, with a thousand questions, and her fears about Kate’s reaction to her.

Tammy decided that the only way to deal with her anxiety was to get it over quickly. She called her mother and asked if they could come for a drink in the next few days. She didn’t think that Stacey would survive a meal without hyperventilating. Her normally calm, confident, level-headed partner, her tower of stability, was collapsing, as though her entire life depended on the meeting with Kate.

“Of course,” Kate said, surprised to hear from Tammy so quickly. She knew how busy she was, constantly in meetings at Chanel and working late. She assumed that that part of her life was true, even if the stories about her personal life hadn’t been. “Thank you for the flowers by the way. I’ve never seen anything so beautiful. I’m going to try your florist.”

“I’m happy you like them,” Tammy sounded pleased. “It was Stacey’s idea. She sent me some too, after I told you about us. She’s waited seven years for this, and she’s going to have a nervous breakdown if she doesn’t meet you soon. I want to put her out of her misery, before she gets a facelift, starts having Botox shots, and buys a whole new wardrobe. She’s driving me nuts. She’s afraid you won’t think she’s good enough for me. She’s a lot smarter than I am, and a wonderful person.”

“So are you,” her mother said lovingly.

“I really hope you like her, Mom. It’s important to both of us.” Kate could hear the love in her voice for the woman she lived with. She had waited sixteen years to tell her mother, seven of them hiding her partner from her, and now she wanted Kate’s stamp of approval on her life. It had been a long painful wait for both of them.

“Are you free tomorrow around five o’clock?” Kate offered. It was Saturday.

“That’s perfect. Stacey sees patients on Saturday until four o’clock. It’ll give us time for her to change, and for us to get uptown.”

“I’m looking forward to it. Tell her not to worry. I’m on board now. All you had to do was tell me,” she said calmly, as both of them wondered silently if Claire and Anthony simultaneously going off the deep end had made it easier. Tammy hadn’t done anything dramatic, she had just told the truth, which was dramatic enough in her case.

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