Maybe Never by Sadie Allen

Author:Sadie Allen [Allen, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sadie Allen
Published: 2017-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Judd

WE SPENT THE REST of the afternoon and evening working after Sunny made good on her word and helped me clean up the spill. Nothing else dramatic happened, thank God. The dinner crowd came, the dinner crowd left, and before we knew it, it was closing time.

Everyone had already left, so it was just Sunny and I in Sally’s kitchen. It was weird being here so late at night with the front of the diner dark and quiet.

Sunny came over and handed me a knife and a cutting board. Then she walked away to get white onions and mushrooms from the fridge, bringing them over and placing them in front of me.

“Are you sure you trust me to do this?” I could hear the uncertainty in my own voice. I couldn’t remember ever cutting up a vegetable in my life.

“Just try your best.”

I gave her a look that doubted her sanity, but I did as I was told.

“I think Mrs. Shannon lied when she said that baking was the hardest,” I commented after a couple chops. “This seems more complicated than measuring ingredients and pouring them into a bowl.”

She just shook her head, not saying anything else.

Sunny and I worked in companionable silence, me butchering vegetables, while she was cooking some ground beef on the stove top. It was nice.

“Are you really okay?” Sunny asked, breaking the quiet of the kitchen.

“Yeah, I’m getting kind of used to it.” I sniffled as I continued to chop the onions. When I first started cutting them up, the aroma hit me straight in the eyeballs. As I continued to work the knife, the stinging and watering nose and eyes lessened.

“That’s good.”

“The onions are a pain because they’re making my eyes tear up, but it’s easier than I thought it would be. Do you think they make eyewear for cutting up onions?”

Sunny giggled, and I felt like I had won the state championship all over again.

“Well, if they sold eyewear for cutting onions, I bet you could find it on a late-night infomercial or on Amazon. But that wasn’t what I was talking about.” Her voice went soft toward the end, and I wondered what she wanted to know.

She didn’t make me wait.

“I meant … Are you okay with seeing Ashley? Well, I mean … after seeing Ashley with another guy.”

I stopped what I was doing and stared over at Sunny, who was concentrating very hard on cooking that ground beef. Her cheeks were red, and her lips were tucked into her mouth.

When I didn’t answer right away, caught up in staring at her, she rambled on, “Uh … Forget I asked that. It’s really none of my business. It was a stupid question. Of course it had to be hard … I mean—”

“Sunny, you can ask me whatever you want. It’s really okay. And no, it surprisingly wasn’t hard seeing her with Corey. I’m actually okay.”

“But … But I thought you were in love with her?”

I took a moment to collect my thoughts, wanting to be honest with her as well as myself.

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