My Amish Boyfriend by Melody Carlson

Author:Melody Carlson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV033010, FIC053000, Teenage girls—Fiction, Amish—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441245465
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

13

You know how to operate this thing?” I say lightly to Rachel as she climbs into the front driver’s seat. I’m sitting in the back because I have a feeling she doesn’t want me up there.

Instead of answering, she does something with her foot, then snaps the reins and says something I don’t catch—probably to the horse—and soon we are going back to where we came from. I consider attempting to start a conversation with my disgruntled cousin, but I suspect she does not wish to speak with me. I lean back and daydream about Ezra.

However, my happy daydream seems to have frequent interruptions, almost like an obnoxious commercial popping into my favorite reality show. I can hear the comments Phoebe made about Ezra and Rachel and how they used to be “together.” I wonder what that means. At the same time, I do not want to know. Although I’ve never had a real boyfriend before, I’ve observed others. I’m well aware that some relationships begin and end in less than a week. Perhaps that was how it was with Ezra and my cousin. Nothing serious. Besides that, it’s history now.

What seems most important is that Ezra loves me. He said those words tonight. And I love him. What difference does it make that he has a past with my cousin? They were obviously not meant for each other. Not the way Ezra and I seem to be, anyway. If my cousin is feeling out of sorts because she sees someone else enjoying what she obviously didn’t want, why should I be concerned?

In fact, I have as much right to be irritated as she does. Perhaps even more. She’s the one who ruined my evening, dragging me away from a party that I was enjoying immensely. I look out of the slow-moving buggy, realizing that I could just hop out. I might take a little tumble, but it wouldn’t be enough to get seriously hurt. Then I could jog on back to the party and pick things up right where we left them. Rachel is so zoned out, she probably wouldn’t even notice I was gone until she got home. Then she’d have something to think about.

However, I’m not sure that I want to go back and pick things up right where we left them. The truth is, I think I was partially relieved that Jeremiah and his buddy showed up when they did. I wasn’t looking forward to telling Ezra that it was time to stop. I didn’t even know what I was going to say to him to make him stop. Their untimely intervention (or was it timely?) kept me from having to deal with an uncomfortable situation. I can act miffed and outraged at Rachel, but really I’m not. And on some level I feel kind of sorry for her. I know what it feels like to be the only person who’s acting responsible when everyone else is acting like immature juveniles. Yet, at the same time, I think maybe it’s my turn—maybe it’s time for me to enjoy being a teenager.

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