Create a Life to Love by Erin Zak

Author:Erin Zak [Zak, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635554267
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2019-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

JACKIE

Beth was a hot mess and moody as hell. I wasn’t sure if it was because of last night when we went to dinner without her or if it was because she was nervous about going to the the Rusty Nail. Either way, my first taste of hormonal teenage rage was not pretty.

“Y’know, you would never understand what I’m going through right now!”

I stopped in my tracks in the hallway and looked at Beth in the guest bathroom. “What the hell are you talking about? I go to get you a hairbrush and come back to you yelling at me?”

Beth held her hands up. Her hair was a mess, and she still wasn’t completely dressed. We were supposed to leave in forty minutes. “Well, you’re the one that’s so fucking pretty. You probably don’t even have to try!”

“Whoa there, missy.” I walked toward her and put the brush down. “What is going on?”

“I…” Tears started to appear in her eyes, and I was frozen in place. What the hell was I supposed to do? “I feel so ugly. And Brock is so cute. And Peggy! Don’t even get me started on how hot she is. I don’t know what to wear. I can’t get my hair to behave with this stupid humidity. I’m such a mess.”

“First of all,” I said and folded my arms across my chest. “Brock will think you’re even more beautiful this time than he did the last time. He’s not going to see all these things that you think are imperfections. You realize that, right?”

Beth shrugged.

“Well, I can guarantee that he’ll see what I see.”

“Which is what? A dumb teenager?”

I laughed. “No, although the case could be made for that. I mean that he’ll see a beautiful young woman. Coming into her own. Figuring herself out. And seriously, come on. If nothing else, he’ll be so excited that you actually showed up that it won’t matter if you’re wearing a burlap sack.”

I saw a smile starting to form on Beth’s lips.

“And another thing, why does it matter if this Peggy chick is hot? Is she interested in Brock?”

Beth’s eyes found mine. Her eyes that were so mine that it was kind of hard to look at her sometimes. In that moment, it was like seeing myself as a teenager, and I did not want to relive those days. “I’m pretty sure she doesn’t like him.”

“Then?”

She shrugged.

Oh… “Do you like her, too?”

She shrugged again.

“Okay,” I said and paused. I tried to gather all of the sage wisdom that I could. All the years of knowledge from trying to figure myself out. “Not knowing isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

“It’s not?”

“Heck no. Let’s say you go to a restaurant, and you like two things on the menu. Wouldn’t you want to order and try both? Who’s to say you can’t do that in this situation, too?”

“It’s not that simple, Jackie,” Beth mumbled with her head down.

I reached over and gently lifted her face with two fingers until she was looking at me.

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