Christmas at Starlight (Snowy Ridge: A Love at Starlight Novella, Book 0.5) by Jett Kris

Author:Jett, Kris [Jett, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: snowy ridge, love, midwest, Clean & Wholesome romance, small-town romance, sweet romance, fiction, romance, books, holiday, holiday romance, Christmas
Publisher: Windows User
Published: 2017-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Amber seriously considered staying in her bedroom until she heard her parents leave for work. No matter how long that took. But she knew she’d have to face them eventually so out for breakfast she went.

“Good Morning,” she said when she walked into the kitchen. She didn’t have a real plan for what she would say to her parents that morning. Apparently the pretend like nothing happened tactic was the winner.

Her dad was sitting at the table with an egg white omelet and newspaper in hand. Her mom was sitting across from him, working on a grapefruit.

Amber poured herself a bowl of granola and joined them at the table. She knew that they weren’t happy with her and normally this would really bother her. But she felt differently when she woke up that morning. For the first time that she could remember, she didn’t really care. She was tired of them always trying to steer her life. So what that they didn’t like that she had someone over. Oh well, get over it, she thought. She was an adult.

Nick had texted her first thing that morning with a picture of him eating one of the cookies they had made for breakfast. He was so adorable. She was about to pull up the picture on her phone to look at it again when her mom interrupted her thoughts.

“Are we going to talk about last night?” she asked.

Here it comes. “What about last night?” Amber asked. Might as well play the ignorance thing for as long as possible.

Her dad folded his paper and set it on the table. Both of her parents were looking at her.

“What?” she asked. “You guys are trying to make me feel like I did something wrong. I’m allowed to have friends. I’m allowed to bake cookies. There shouldn’t be a problem here.”

“Who was that guy?” her mom asked.

Amber frowned at her mom. “I told you. His name was Nick. I met him at the Starlight Pub. He’s a dishwasher there. He’s really nice. You’d like him if you had stuck around to chat for a few minutes last night.”

Amber’s mom turned toward her husband. “He’s a dish washer,” her mom said, stressing the last two words.

“I heard,” her dad replied.

“What? Why are you guys acting like this? What’s wrong with being a dishwasher?” Amber was suddenly feeling very irritated. She pushed her bowl of cereal away from her. She wasn’t hungry any more.

Her mom sighed. “Amber, we know you’re meeting boys at school and you might even be dating. We get that. It had to happen eventually.”

No, they don’t know, Amber thought. She hadn’t dated anyone at school. Amber had only ever had one sort of boyfriend her senior year in high school. His name was Jake and they’d only dated about three weeks. Amber kept it secret from her parents because she thought they would freak out. Kind of like they were doing right now.

“But…?” Amber prompted. “Go on, I know you’re just dying to say something else.

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