Curvy Girls Can't Date Cowboys by Kelsie Stelting

Author:Kelsie Stelting
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kelsie Stelting Creative LLC

Thirty-Three

My first instinct was to go to my room—avoid my parents and what they’d done altogether. Ray deserved a better explanation, though. I deserved a better explanation. Just because my parents believed differently from him, didn’t mean they had to be so rude. Would they have kicked him out if he had a different opinion on politics or education?

And why did I have to date someone who believed the same way they did? With my eighteenth birthday coming up, I’d be an adult soon, no matter how much they insisted on treating me like a child. Did they expect me to follow their rules forever?

When I reached the dining room, the table was deadly silent. Only the scraping of carefully placed silverware broke the thick silence hanging in the air. Cori had a scowl on her face, and the twins had made themselves so tiny, their shoulders barely showed above the tabletop.

Time to wreck the silence, just like they’d detonated my life. “What was that about?”

Mom cut through a green bean. “Deciding who is appropriate for our daughter to date. Clearly, that young man was not it.”

“And why not? Because he works on a farm?”

“No, because he defends a way of life that nearly destroyed ours.”

My mouth hung open. “You act like farming is an act of terror!”

“The way his family does it?” She shook her head. “You of all people should understand why we won’t allow you to date him.”

“Because I got pneumonia four years ago? The doctor himself said the bacteria could have come from anywhere. I probably got it in the hospital!”

She glared at me. “Because you almost died. You were intubated. You got so depressed we were worried you would—”

“I remember what I had to go through! Which means I should be the one to decide which risks I take. I know the cost better than anyone.”

Dad’s hands balled on his silverware. “Enough, Ginger!”

“Because you don’t like what I’m saying? You’re going to shut me up like you did Ray?”

He trained an icy stare on me. “Because you let a kid into our house who argued openly with your mother and me in front of our children. It’s unacceptable. For anyone, and especially for someone who wants to date our daughter.”

My lip curled in disgust. “You—”

“You’re walking on thin ice,” he growled. “And if you want to keep arguing, we can talk about your ability to make decisions on your own in the dorms.”

The thin ice I was apparently standing on shattered underneath me. They were throwing the dorms in my face? Would it be like this every time I disagreed with them until I graduated from high school? From college?

Feeling the heat in my eyes seconds from spilling over, I turned and went to my room. They didn’t care to understand me or Ray, and I wanted as little to do with their judgement as possible.

Suddenly the world I was raised in felt less secure than ever. If my parents believed so wholeheartedly in what

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