Lattes, Ladyfingers, and Lies by Harper Lin

Author:Harper Lin [Lin, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper Lin Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

It didn’t take all that long to get home to drop Latte off at the house. As soon as I opened the door, he ran straight to his bowl and spent a while lapping up the water then went up the stairs without even casting a second glance at me. Based on previous experience, it was safe to assume that when I got home later that evening, I’d find him sprawled out in his favorite spot on my bed, passed out and drooling without a worry in the world.

“Okay, bye!” I called even though I knew he couldn’t care less.

The walk over to the high school didn’t take long. Even though it had been fifteen years, I felt like I could practically walk there in my sleep. I smiled, remembering how Matt and I had walked to school together every day for four years. We’d been close friends growing up, but only that. We flirted a lot, but there was never anything between us until I came back to Cape Bay after my mother’s death. I wondered if I’d missed out on almost twenty years of a good thing by not getting together with him sooner. I certainly would have saved myself some of the heartbreaks I’d acquired over the years if I’d been with him.

I sighed, thinking about what things might have been like if we’d gotten together in high school. We might have gotten married after college, bought a house of our own, had some babies. I probably never would have spent ten years working in public relations for high-profile clients. Would I have become the same person I was if I hadn’t had those experiences? I decided it was better not to spend too much time thinking about what might have been when what I had right now was perfect. Who knows? I might not have ended up with Matt at all.

My arrival at the high school snapped me out of my reverie. It still resembled the school I’d gone to, but there had been so much remodeling and new construction, it was hard to see the old building in there. I wondered if the football field was still in the same place. Only one way to find out.

I headed around the back of the school. Yup, there it was, right behind the building. I remembered sitting in my senior English class and looking out the window as a big machine aerated the field. I also remembered sitting on the bleachers after the school was evacuated because somebody called in a bomb threat, wondering if we’d really be safe there if the school exploded. Even as an adult, I was pretty sure we wouldn’t have been.

The football team was out on the field, running back and forth, tapping their hands on the ground each time they turned. It would probably actually make a good fitness class. If boot camp classes were so popular, why not a football camp class? Maybe I should mention it at the gym.

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