Love Comes First by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour [L'Amour, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Published: 2019-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Hayley woke up with the monstrous sound of her phone ringing and wished she were dead. She groaned and tried to grab her phone off her nightstand without unburying her face from her pillow and managed only to knock it to the floor instead. She moaned in pain.

She tilted her body half off the bed and managed to get it.

“Chris,” she whimpered, accepting the call, “how dare you do this to me—”

“Do you have any idea how many times you called me at ass o’clock to talk about your hot ballerina?” Christina said cheerfully, and Hayley hated her more than anything.

“You asshole,” Hayley said, knocking her forehead against the wood of her bed. Ugh. She was head down, blood rushing to her face. Awful. “What time is it? What do you want?”

“Nothing,” Chris said. “Carlos and I were talking about you and I missed you.”

Oh. Hayley felt tears stinging at her eyes.

“Aw.“

“You sentimental ass,” Chris said fondly. “So how’re you? How’s my goddaughter?”

“Just fine,” Hayley told her, straightening up on her bed. She squinted at her alarm clock. It wasn’t that much of an awful hour to wake up. “You and your boy talk about me? What were you talking about?”

There was a moment of silence.

“Chris,” Hayley said wearily.

“We both agree,” Chris said slowly but firmly, you-asked-Hay, “that if you asked your parents, they’d pay for the ballet classes Lou wants.”

“I was so happy,” Hayley said, closing her eyes, lifting her knees to her chest, “so happy that you called, that you missed me, and you just had to go and fucking ruin it—”

“You asked, Hay.”

“My parents,” Hayley said loudly and firmly, “can get fucked, Christina, and the day I depend on them financially again is the day I die.”

“Yeah, sure,” Chris said, because of course she did, because Chris hated Hayley’s parents, too. “But this isn’t you depending financially on them, this isn’t them buying your groceries. This is for Lou—”

“Oh, so it’s not food, it’s just my daughter’s happiness! So what’s the plan? What do I tell my baby when her grandparents stop paying her classes after Mom refuses to do something inane like magically become straight—”

“Hay,” Chris said, voice small.

“No,” Hayley said. No, she wouldn’t. They could take Lou on trips, they could have pictures, but Lou loved Dani and she loved ballet and she wanted those classes enough she hadn’t stopped asking for them for weeks, and if Hayley couldn’t depend on her parents to give a shit about feeding their own barely eighteen year old daughter, then she wouldn’t depend on them for this.

“They’re not evil,” Chris said after a few moments of silence. Her voice wasn’t placating, or even annoyed. It was just certain. Hayley, you’re being stubborn, that voice said. Hayley, this has fixing and you’re the one refusing to fix it. “You know they love her. You know they regret what they did to you.”

“But they did it,” Hayley said, and Chris had no argument for that. The call ended soon

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