Firefly Hollow Collection, Volume Two by T. L. Haddix

Author:T. L. Haddix
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: T L Haddix
Published: 2016-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

In Laurel County, Amelia was pacing back and forth in the living room when her grandmother came in. Eliza frowned, and Amelia shook her head. She’d just hung up the phone and she felt like she was coming out of her skin.

“I need you to talk me out of doing something I shouldn’t,” Amelia told her. She crossed her arms over her chest and bit her lip as she continued to pace.

“Okay, that sounds ominous enough.” Eliza perched on the arm of the couch. “Tell me what it is I’m stopping you from doing.”

“Going to Logan.” Chin up, Amelia stopped and watched her grandmother. “I want to go to him so badly I can’t stand it, Nonny. And I know I shouldn’t.”

She held Eliza’s gaze as long as she could before embarrassment set in. With a frustrated growl, she sat down beside Eliza. “This is ridiculous.”

Eliza ran her hand down Amelia’s hair. “It is ridiculous. If it’s tearing you up this much, why not go?”

Amelia was incredulous. “Nonny, you aren’t helping.”

With a soft laugh, her grandmother hugged her. “You’re young. You obviously have feelings for the man, and if the way he sounded was any indication, he isn’t indifferent to you, either. Aren’t you on birth control?”

“Yes.” Amelia had gone out with a guy back in the summer whom she’d thought had promise, and not wanting to take any chances, she’d gone to her doctor and started taking the shot. After a month and the fourth date when he’d finally kissed her more than just goodnight, it had been apparent there was no spark between them. She’d kept up with the shots, though, getting her latest one right after Archer and Emma’s wedding.

She could hardly believe her grandmother was advising her to have an affair. “So I should what? Just show up on his doorstep the night before a major snowstorm, possibly get stuck with a man who doesn’t want me there? I’m not even supposed to be in Perry County.”

“If I were you, yes. I’d go. The storm isn’t supposed to hit until around dawn. It’s only just nine now. If he doesn’t want you there, at least you know, and you can move on. And you’d have time to turn around and come back here. You’re a night owl, so I don’t worry about you being on the roads that late, at least not as much as I would if you didn’t stay up so late. Sneak into town, see what happens.”

Amelia shook her head and stood. “I must be hallucinating.” She was actually considering it. She looked at her grandmother, whose expression was calm. “What if he turns me away? I don’t know if I could handle that.”

Eliza stood and came to her, framing Amelia’s face with her soft palms. “What if he doesn’t turn you away?”

Amelia swallowed hard. “I’m almost more afraid of that,” she whispered. She turned her face in to her grandmother’s hand, nuzzling, and Eliza pulled her close for a hug.

“Be the brave girl that I know you are, and go to the man,” Eliza whispered.

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