Lone Star in Jersey by Anne Key

Author:Anne Key [Key, Gina Harris and Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: yong adult
ISBN: 978-1-64080-993-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

“SO? DID you have fun?” Daddy asked, and Sammy rolled her eyes but nodded.

“They’re real nice. Parents, you know? I think they might be Jewish. I’ve never met Jewish people before.” All she knew about Jewish people was that the boys wore funny hats on TV, and Eli didn’t wear a funny hat, but he’d said Hanukkah, and that was Jewish but… maybe they had friends that were Jewish? Maybe she’d ask. Or maybe not. It’s not like it mattered, or Eli would have said something.

She was just happy she could sleep in on Sundays.

“Not a lot of Jews in your neck of the woods? Trust me, you’ve met more than a handful since you’ve been here. You just don’t know it.”

They walked up the dark street heading home, and Daddy must have known she was chilly because he put his arm around her shoulders. “So, how serious are you about this boy, sweetheart? Just going to the dance with him for fun? Is it a bigger thing than that?”

She thought about that for a second. “Well, I don’t think I want to have sex with him or marry him today or anything, but I really like him. Like, ‘more than a friend’ like him. I think that I would be his girlfriend.”

“Whoa! Hold on there!” Daddy coughed and cleared his throat. “You… I didn’t hear that. I did not hear any of that. You are fifteen! I need to call Franny.”

“Oh, am I, like, not allowed to talk to you about that sort of stuff?” Momma always wanted her to tell her things, but boys were different.

“Well, it’s not that you’re not allowed to, it’s just… okay, look.” Daddy rubbed his forehead with his fingers, which probably meant she’d said something wrong again. “It’s cool. I want you to feel like you can talk to me. I just wasn’t ready… maybe you need to tell me, you know, where you’re at… with boys. So I know.”

“I’m still a virgin, Daddy.” God, so awkward, but Momma said if you can’t talk about it, you aren’t ready to do it, and the OWL class she took at church said the same thing, so she stuck it out. “It was close, but Momma said I had to get on birth control first, and Dylan didn’t want to wait for me to go to the doctor, and he broke up with me.” Dylan was a dick. “It was so… crappy, and I cried a lot, but Momma said that I did the right thing.”

See, Momma? All that time at the UU church and all the teasing I got for being all liberal and stuff? I learned something in the sex class. Go team me.

It never ceased to amaze her how often the right thing felt so bad.

Daddy nodded like a million times as they climbed up the steps to the house. “Good,” he said finally. She waited for more, but he was quiet until after he opened the door for her. “Your momma was right about everything.

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