Coming Out in Ten Dates: A Midlife Lesbian Romantic Comedy (Friends to Lovers Contemporary Lesbian Romance) by Bale Reba

Author:Bale , Reba [Bale , Reba]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reba Bale
Published: 2023-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen: Ghosted

“F ace it Mom, you’ve been ghosted.”

“Ghosted? What does that mean?”

I looked between my daughters, noting the twin looks of pity on their face. Ironic, given that they were twins. Fraternal twins, but they still looked a lot alike.

“It means that a person has cut off all forms of communication, that they just blow you off,” Samantha explained. “Disappears, like a ghost.”

She was my oldest, by about four minutes. Like her sister, she was the perfect blend of Rob and me, with my hair and figure, but Rob’s eyes and taller height.

“Well, we didn’t have any communication to start with,” I explained. “We met, she asked for my number and promised to call, and then she didn’t. It’s been two weeks so I’m assuming she doesn’t plan to.”

“Ghosted,” Skyler repeated.

We were having a mother and daughter spa day at our favorite day spa. We’d already soaked in the hot tubs and gotten massages, and now we were getting mani-pedis. We usually did this once a year as part of the twins’ birthday gift.

It was hard to believe that they were turning nineteen tomorrow. I’d gotten pregnant with them right after I began my senior year of high school and they’d been born a few weeks before graduation. Rob and the girls and I had moved in together during my last trimester, renting a garage apartment from my aunt. Despite pressure from our parents, we had waited until the girls were two before we’d gotten married. We didn’t want to end up divorced if things didn’t work out.

In many ways, we’d all grown up together. Rob and I had been kids ourselves when the girls were born, but we’d been a good parenting team. Looking at my strong, confident college student daughters, I felt happy that we’d done a good job raising them.

Ever since we got here the girls had been quizzing me about my dating progress, delighted to hear about the ‘first date challenge’ their Aunt Alice had come up with. I’d given them the highlights – and the lowlights – of my dates so far, sparing them from any intimate details of course.

After I told them the story about ‘talking’ with Heidi in the restaurant hallway, I had to tell them the rest: two weeks had passed without a word from my restaurant crush. I didn’t share how many times I’d checked my phone, looking for a phone call or text from Heidi. I didn’t want to come off as completely pathetic. It just made no sense to me that the woman had asked for my number so boldly, and then blown me off.

“I really don’t understand why she’d ask for my phone number if she wasn’t going to call me.”

“Are you kidding me, Mom?” Skyler asked. “Guys do that all the time, so why not lesbians?”

“Do what?”

“Ask for your number and then never call you.”

“I’ve asked my guy friends about this,” Samantha explained. “They said sometimes they ask because they think the girl is expecting it so they’re trying to be nice or just avoid an uncomfortable scene.

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