Don't Let Go by Sheryl Wright

Author:Sheryl Wright [Wright, Sheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781594935091
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2016-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

At home, sprawled on the couch, Tyler watched her very pregnant sister waddle into the family room. While they weren’t identical twins they shared many features. Raven-haired and with unusually vivid blue eyes, they had turned heads in high school even after Tyler came out. Having a straight twin to watch her back had made all the difference in their world. Now in their thirties, both women stood tall and slender, perhaps even caffeine thin by some standards. With Kira’s pregnancy, her chiseled face had softened with what she was proud to call baby fat. Tyler was glad to see her put the baby’s health before any concerns for her own appearance. Somewhere in the deep recesses of her mind she worried for their connected intuition. Something their dad call the spooky twin thing. Would having a baby change that? Certainly all the boyfriends that had come and gone had had no effect on their connection but a child was different. At least Kira was home with them all and letting her share in her concerns and excitement. “Sounds like Megan’s in trouble again,” Kira offered with a grin.

Ensconced in her corner of the sofa, Tyler had been staring at the blank screen of her notebook for several minutes. Resigning herself to the interruption, she closed the lid and moved the computer to the side table, along with several reports.

Kira, carefully maneuvering herself, sat down beside Tyler. “Want one?” she asked, holding out a jar of dill pickles and a fork.

“Really?” Tyler asked. “I thought that was a cliché, eating pickles when you’re pregnant.”

“Nope! After this I’m going to have some of that strawberry pie Dad brought home.”

Before Tyler could remind her sister that the strawberry pie was meant to be served with Sunday night supper, an upstairs door slammed and their younger sister’s scream carried throughout the house, “YOU DEFEND THEM ALL THE TIME! WHY IS IT OKAY FOR THE SLUT AND THE DYKE, BUT NOT ME?”

While their mother’s voice was not raised, it was definitive and crisply authoritarian. “Your sisters are grown women. I support the choices they’ve made. Both your father and I are proud to have them home with us. The difference between you and your sisters, Megan, is twelve years of adult life experience and a lot of common sense. Something you have yet to demonstrate.”

While the older sisters knew better than to interrupt the raging debate, both were sympathetic. Putting her legs up on the couch, Kira unceremoniously dumped her feet in Tyler’s lap.

“Holy smokes, Turtle, have you seen the size of your ankles?”

Crunching on a dill, Kira whined, “Rub my feet?”

Tyler covered one foot with the blanket on her lap, and began her ministrations on the second. “How long have they been this bad?”

“A few days now,” their mother answered for Kira, entering the room from the staircase. She bypassed her twin daughters, heading for the kitchen and the ever-brewing coffee. She returned a few minutes later with coffee for her and Tyler, and a tall glass of milk for Kira.

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