Cutting Teeth: A Novel by Julia Fierro

Author:Julia Fierro
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781466839229
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

knife in the back

Leigh

Leigh woke in the deck chair, her mouth dry and face sweaty from the blazing sun overhead. She had indulged in a rare Charlotte-free nap, since Tenzin had offered to put the baby down for a nap in the house.

Tiffany stood at the foot of Leigh’s chaise, toweling her trim legs. Her tan breasts were dusted with flecks of sand, and seawater dripped from the curled ends of her hair.

“Why, hello there, Sleeping Beauty,” Tiffany said. “Oopsy, did I get you wet?”

Leigh looked up, shielding her eyes, but all she could see were the curves of Tiffany’s silhouette, black against the dazzling blue sky.

“Don’t you wear sunblock?” Tiffany asked. “You’ll be one of those wrinkly old ladies playing bridge at the country club.”

“Very funny,” Leigh said.

“Oh my God, Susanna just puked her guts out on the beach.”

“Oh no,” Leigh said. “Is she okay?”

“Yeah. She just got worked up over the kids. You know how she is,” Tiffany said, one eyebrow raised.

Tiffany plucked a beer from the cooler by the seawall. She wrenched the cap off with her back teeth, her purplish lips spread wide, big square teeth bared.

“Jeez!” Leigh said, forcing a laugh. “You’re going to break a tooth.”

“That’s what they teach you at community college,” Tiffany said. “Here, live a little.”

She pushed the beer toward Leigh in a gesture that implied a command, and although Leigh didn’t want it, she took it, figuring she could dump it out later.

She leaned forward and playfully slapped Tiffany’s leg.

“Michael’s such a cutie! That’s awesome that he came out this weekend. I think Nicole’s got a crush,” Leigh said, and lifted her beer in a toast, knowing Tiffany would like the idea of someone’s desiring her man.

Tiffany’s cocktail glass clinked against Leigh’s bottle, and beer splashed onto Leigh’s white shorts.

“Sorry about that, babe,” Tiffany said, easing down on the end of Leigh’s lounge chair, and leaning in toward her. “You didn’t hear us last night, did you?”

“Hear what?”

“Liar!” Tiffany’s eyes danced as she tried to suppress her grin. “Shit. I knew it. The whole house must’ve heard.” She bounced on the chair and its rusted springs groaned.

“Careful,” Leigh said. “This patio furniture might be older than Nicole’s parents.”

“Well, honestly, I don’t care if Michael and I pissed everyone off. It was totally worth it.”

“Good,” Leigh said, as matter-of-factly as she could.

Tiffany lowered her voice. “It was hot, Leigh-Leigh,” she said. “I mean, it’s always hotter in someone else’s bed, right? But that mattress Nic put us on is about a thousand years old and disgusting. I was thinking I’d never sleep on the thing, let alone fuck around on it, but Michael wanted a BJ the second we turned off the light. We didn’t have sex-sex. Just oral. But he wouldn’t quit! It was like he was on E or something. I think spending all day with mommies in bathing suits worked him up. He hardly ever goes down on me like that, but—”

“You can’t get me!” Tenzin’s melodic voice rang out from the beach below.

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