Once Again in Christmas Falls by Becky Monson

Author:Becky Monson [Monson, Becky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hometown Return, Honesty & Trust, Emotional Reunion, Romantic Schemes, second chances, Christmas Falls Tennessee, Winter Weather, Holiday Whimsy, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Beautiful & Feisty, High School Mentor's Request, Women's Fiction, Group of Special Friends, Clean & Wholesome, Multi-Author Collection, Return To Christmas Falls Series, Small Town Community, Love Inspired, Boss Is Ex-Love, Forever Love, Lifetime Love, Christmas Time, Boy Next-Door, Parents Divorcing, Christmas Holidays & Celebration, Shed H.S. Goth Image, Contemporary Romance, Novella Length Story, Bachelor, Festive Season, Single Woman, Love-Family & Forever, Small Town & Rural Area, Home & Family, Childhood Neighbor, Remarkable Women
Amazon: B076CW1DP3
Publisher: Becky Monson
Published: 2017-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

I met Piper Wyatt the first day of fifth grade when we lined up for recess. We were Walsh and Wyatt, respectively. And it was friend at first sight. We immediately bonded over our hatred of school lunches and the drooling, idiot boys that were in our class that year. We both had long dark brown hair and matching tween attitudes. Well, I suspected her attitude was only a reflection of mine. I was the true tween of the two of us. Piper was just . . . kind. Everyone loved her and she seemed to love everyone, minus the drooling boys in our class. But boy, did they love her. Piper wasn’t just cute, with her perfect nose and striking blue eyes. Even at the age of ten, it was obvious she was going to be stunning. I, on the other hand, had started at nine what was going to be a very long ugly phase.

It took a while before we crossed over from friends only at school to friends that hung out after school. But when we did, we bonded even more. We had so much in common and laughed at all the same things. Even better was the fact that Andy could hang out with us and it was no big deal. Except when we wanted to talk about girl stuff. Then Andy would act like he was annoyed. But I think he actually enjoyed it, having no sisters of his own.

Piper was my confidant, my bestie. She just got me—even when I did the whole goth thing, she was all for it, telling me I looked great in anything I wore. She was my biggest cheerleader and the person I trusted most in the world.

Which is why it felt wrong that I was so full of nerves as I got ready to meet up with her the next morning. It was sad that I was feeling so edgy, but I knew it was because of what had happened the last time I saw her. Looking back, with eight years of maturity, it seemed ridiculous to end a friendship over something so trivial.

We were to meet at Holly’s Café around ten-thirty, and I had been awake for at least three hours. My mind was going a mile a minute, thinking about seeing Piper again after all these years and coming up with a myriad of scenarios of what could happen. In some daydreams, tears were shed as we hugged each other, and in others we ended up throwing our drinks in each other’s faces. My mind whirled, dancing from one extreme to the next, preventing me from falling back to sleep.

I also couldn’t get Andy out of my head. My brain kept coming up with the most ridiculous ideas. I’d come up with reasons why it would never work, to get my mind and heart to see reason. The top of that list being my sudden feelings were probably not reciprocated. Then, of course, on the

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