Diesel_A Sports Romance by Lisa Lang Blakeney

Author:Lisa Lang Blakeney [Blakeney, Lisa Lang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781790545155
Amazon: 1790545153
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

My mother is what you would call a modern superwoman. She is fiercely determined, extremely talented, and pretty much successful at everything she tries—except for her marriage to the man who should have been my father.

She works in the music department of the university where she teaches jazz voice. While I love my mother and deeply admire her for her talent, as well as for her strength in raising me alone, we couldn’t be more different.

My mom is quite feminine, loves pastel colors, flowy dresses, and floral perfumes. She’s also very beautiful, somewhat traditional, totally creative, as well as talented, organized, and polite.

I, on the other hand, am very different. I’m a tomboy, nontraditional, uncreative, disorganized, love the color brown, prefer sweats, rather wear a clean scent, am not considered a beauty by any stretch, and I can’t sing a single note.

It’s difficult being so different from the woman that gave you life. I struggle to see myself in her all the time, and it may explain why I’ve struggled with figuring out my place in the world. Who I am, what I’m good at, and what the right path for me is.

Maybe that’s why I’m so attracted, yet so totally envious of Mason. He knows his place in the world. He knows that he’s a ballplayer and that he’ll be a ballplayer for a long time, and when that’s over he knows that he has the intelligence to be anything else that he wants. A doctor, a lawyer, or whatever.

There has to be peace in that sort of knowledge.

Peace that I envy.

I peek into my mom’s office which is open because this is her time for office hours. She is sitting at her desk typing something on her computer. I tap gingerly on the doorframe.

“Mom?”

Her eyes pop up, and when she sees that it’s me she smiles warmly.

“Hey, sweetie, this is a pleasant surprise.”

“Yeah, I just came from my counselor’s office, and since I was nearby I thought I’d stop in to say hello.”

“How are classes? Are you having a good semester so far?”

“Yes, classes are fine. I was meeting with Mr. Killum to discuss next semester because I haven’t registered yet.”

“You really need to register or they’ll give away your dorm room, Olivia. You don’t want to commute do you?”

I sigh to myself.

I love my mother dearly, but she always finds a fault or a way to fix anything I’m doing.

“Don’t worry about it, Mom, I’m handling it.”

“Good. So how’s Mason doing? Are you two still hanging out.”

“He’s doing well. Having a great season so far.”

“Yeah, the Chargers have never looked better since he joined the team. We were lucky to get him.”

“Yep.”

“Tell him to call his mother a little more often. You two are only thirty minutes away, but it seems like three hundred miles to us because you don’t live at home anymore. A call once in a while would be nice.”

“I’ll tell him.”

I stand up to leave.

“This was a very nice and unexpected visit, Olivia. It’s weird that I don’t see you much and I work here.

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