Falling for Summer by Bridget Essex

Author:Bridget Essex
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Lgbt, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Genre Fiction, Lesbian, Lesbian Romance, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Rose and Star Press
Published: 2015-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

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That night, twenty years ago, Mom and Dad made me promise that I'd be there for Tiffany's slumber party and that I'd babysit the whole affair. They were going to a work dinner, and to have that many ten-year-olds in the house without intense supervision was going to “bring chaos,” my mother had warned me, with a wry smile, twisting her hair up into a bun on the top of her head as she got ready for the dinner.

“I know you wanted to go out with your friends tonight, Mandy, but there will be plenty of other nights for that. I mean, my God, you have the whole summer stretching in front of you.” She sighed happily, thrusting another bobby pin into her updo. She pinned me to the spot with her reflection in the vanity mirror. “We don't ask much of you,” she reminded me, one brow up. “Just promise me that you'll stay around and watch the kids and make sure they don't get up to any mischief.”

“Yeah, Mom, God,” I'd said, blowing another bubble with my bubble gum, not because I was trying to be one of those teenagers in the eighties who thinks they're too cool for life (but I did kind of think that about myself), but because I was trying to hide my nervousness.

Tiffany had been planning that slumber party all week, fully aware that the parents weren't going to be home to watch her or her friends and that, technically, she might get away with it without supervision. My little sister had some crazy ideas about what passed for fun, including going to the corner store, buying her weight in candy and then eating it while watching VHSes of cartoons. It wasn't too crazy, and the cartoon-watching is something my parents would have agreed with, but my mother would have objected to the candy. I was also pretty certain that Tiffany had some other plans up her sleeve, but what they were I wasn't sure of.

The problem is that I didn't mind watching my little sister. I loved her, even though she annoyed me to death, and her friends were all equally annoying, but they were good kids... It's just that I'd had something planned for that Friday night, too. And it certainly wasn't “going out with my friends,” though that's what I'd told my parents.

I'd...just started seeing a girl.

Well, “seeing a girl” is kind of strong wording for two teenaged girls (who really had no idea what they were doing) trying their best to date each other when being gay was something that really wasn't done, or remotely acceptable, especially out in a middle-of-nowhere town like Lake George. And especially if you were still considered kids, being seventeen.

So far, so good, though. No one knew that Monica and I had a thing for each other, because we were very, very, very careful about never getting caught. Monica was my best friend, and everyone expected us to spend a lot of time together, anyway, because of that.

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