Crib Notes by Holly Jacobs

Author:Holly Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ilex Books

THAT FRIDAY, ELI BUSTLED around the classroom, setting up for the day’s panel discussion. Three of her former teen-parenting students were coming in to talk to the current students and serve as role models. Mentors.

Tucker had agreed to participate, although it took a lot of arm-twisting and laying on the guilt.

She was the first one to show up. “I’m here. I even put on semi-grown-up clothes, and you know how I hate that.”

Rather than her normal paint-splattered jeans and T-shirt, she had on a pair of dark brown slacks and a light yellow sweater. She’d taken her hair out of its quintessential ponytail and soft curls framed her face.

Sometimes Eli forgot how beautiful Tucker was.

“Tucker, it’s time like these that I know you care.”

Tucker missed the teasing in Eli’s voice and simply nodded. “And I even put on makeup. Not a lot, but some. I hate that, too.”

Eli laughed. “You’re a good friend.”

Tucker laughed as well. “Yes, I am. Still, you’re going to have to make it up to me. Maybe we should go out to dinner and a show on Saturday.”

Eli was about to say yes, when she remembered she’d agreed to go out with Zac. “Maybe Sunday?” she countered.

Tucker plopped into one of the chairs Eli had set up at the front of the room. “Come here and sit. What’s up on Saturday? You have a look, Eli.”

Eli ignored Tucker’s invitation to sit and went to her desk instead. She knew why she was reluctant to tell Tucker. If she said the words, it would make the date real. Instead, she simply replied, “Nothing’s up. I just have plans.”

“What kind of plans? Plans that center around a certain grocery store owner?”

Eli busied herself with a stack of papers, trying to ignore Tucker’s question.

Tucker, however, was a force of nature—impossible to ignore. She sprang out of the chair and hurried next to Eli at the desk, putting herself directly in Eli’s line of sight. “A date? You finally broke down and are going on a date with him?”

“It’s Christmas shopping.” She took the pile of papers and moved it to her file cabinet. “And maybe dinner.”

Tucker followed her. “That sounds like a date.”

“Don’t get too excited.” She dumped the papers into an empty file at the front of the drawer because she had no idea what they were and where they actually belonged, and this way, later, she could find them easily.

She practically tripped over Tucker, who was directly behind her. “Seriously, Tuck, it’s nothing major.”

“I like him a lot more than I liked Arthur. Of course, you know that’s not saying much, so let’s say that I really like Zac, and I like who you are when you’re with him.”

Eli wanted to ask what Tucker meant by that last line, but didn’t because she also wasn’t sure she wanted to hear what Tucker had to say. “Arthur and I were compatible, though. Zac and I? There are a lot of strikes against us.”

“Like what?” Tucker took her by the hand, led her to the chairs, sat in one and gently pulled Eli into the other.

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