Nantucket Jubilee by Katie Winters

Author:Katie Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katie Winters

Chapter Thirteen

Alana and Julia were flabbergasted at the news of Marcia Conrad’s involvement in the Nantucket Jubilee. “That snake!” Alana cried, clutching her mug of coffee the next morning. “She’s gone too far this time!” Julia agreed. Unfortunately, nobody knew quite what to make of it, nor how to decide what to do next. Ella decided not to tell her sisters that she’d reached out to Marcia herself via Marcia’s website. It had been a moment of passion and anger, and it would probably amount to nothing. Probably.

Despite the drama with Marcia and the chaos of the impending Nantucket Jubilee, things on Nantucket had more-or-less settled into themselves. As running back on the Nantucket football team, Danny had already become “somebody to know” amongst the seniors, with girls hanging around him a little too long after the football games and guys asking him over to play video games and shoot hoops. It warmed Ella’s heart to see Danny fall so easily in with this less-raucous islander crowd. He still chatted with his Brooklyn pals, she knew, but he no longer seemed to demonize her for her decision to move them out of the city. Perhaps, even at seventeen, he understood why she had had to.

About a week and a half after learning of Marcia Conrad’s involvement with the Nantucket Jubilee, Ella returned home from a Jubilee meeting to find Alana, Jeremy, Charlie, and Julia out on the back porch. It was a Thursday, a gorgeous sixty-seven degrees, with tufts of clouds floating against a cerulean sky. Charlie played a Johnny Cash album on his portable speaker and flipped burgers on the grill that sat near the steps that led up to the porch. Jeremy stood with his muscular arms wrapped around Alana’s stomach while Julia placed a juicy-looking watermelon at the center of the table.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Julia said. “There was one more good watermelon at the store, and I grabbed it before anyone else.”

“Thatta girl,” Alana teased. “You always get what you want.”

Ella laughed and sat at the table. A breeze fluttered in off the Nantucket Sound and swept her hair out behind her.

“That kid of yours has really changed our game,” Jeremy said to Ella.

“I never thought in a million years that I would be the mother of a jock,” Ella joked.

“He’s just well-rounded,” Julia countered.

“I wish someone could convince me to do a little more exercise,” Alana said. “Ever since I got back to this island, I’ve been overfed and overly lazy.”

“Come on, Alana,” Ella said. “There’s nothing wrong with a little overindulgence.”

“Tell that to my jeans!” Alana quipped.

Julia returned to the table with a bottle of sparkling water with lemon. While the girls sipped the fresh and citrusy water, Charlie drank a diet soda, and Jeremy drank Gatorade, as he had football practice in a little while and planned to join the football players in a two-mile run. Out across the beach, a little girl rushed into the wall of wind, tugging a bright pink kite along with her.

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