Girls of Summer by Kate Christie

Author:Kate Christie [Christie, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbian romance, new adult, soccer fiction, uswnt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“We’re downstairs,” the text read. “See you soon?”

“Down in ten,” Jamie texted back, and then ducked into the bathroom to brush her teeth and spray down her bed head before breakfast with her sister and brother-in-law.

Meg and Todd had been at every game of the World Cup so far and claimed to have no intention of missing any future matches, either. With the summer off before they started their new professor gigs in Vancouver, Jamie’s sister and her husband had decided to spend June crisscrossing Canada in their well-traveled Subaru Legacy. This way, they could get to know their newly adopted country, the one that had been willing to give them both jobs at a good university in what Meg insisted—and Jamie was well on her way to believing—was the best city in all of Canada.

Before their final group match against Nigeria a few days earlier, the coaches had given the American players the day off. Jamie and Emma had spent it sightseeing with Meg, Todd, Tyler, and Bridget, who had flown to Vancouver the day before to begin their World Cup vacation. Somehow, Tyler had managed to talk Emma into walking across the Capilano Suspension Bridge, a 460-foot long swinging bridge that hung 230 feet up over the Capilano River. Jamie still couldn’t believe that Emma had agreed to make the crossing, though given that they were on a collision course with Germany in the semifinals, maybe there were scarier things than swaying suspension bridges.

Jamie had enjoyed exploring the cliffs near the bridge, but her favorite part of the day had been renting tandem bikes and riding around Stanley Park, an activity that met the lone recovery day requirement Lacey had assessed for their day off. The weather had been Pacific Northwest perfection, with abundant sunshine and temperatures in the low 70s. Stanley Park was known for its seawall, collection of totem poles, views of the city, and trees. So many huge trees—cedars and fir, hemlock and spruce—and the remains of old growth sentinels that had long since fallen.

There was something about evergreens that had always made Jamie feel calmer. Maybe it was simply the additional oxygen they generated, but a mid-day bike ride under the trees with lunch from a café near Lions Gate Bridge was the break she hadn’t known she needed from all things World Cup.

Until now, Toronto had been Jamie’s favorite urban area in Canada. But after their day off in Vancouver, the capital of BC had overtaken the largest city in the country, in her estimation. Toronto, in the throes of preparing to host the 2015 Pan American Games, hadn’t been selected as a World Cup host city. Instead, the sixth WC venue was a small stadium in Moncton, New Brunswick, population 35,000. Which, really? Jamie was just relieved the US didn’t have to play there. Not that there was anything wrong with Moncton or New Brunswick. It was just that the site was as far in Canada as you could get from Vancouver, other than Prince Edward Island.

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