One Walk in Winter by Georgia Beers

Author:Georgia Beers [Beers, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635555424
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Ever since the Fairy Trail Incident, as Olivia had taken to calling her ill-advised kiss with Hayley, she’d been reduced to doing one of two things. She either worked harder than a one-armed juggler or she stared off into space. Nothing else. No scintillating conversations. No hanging with friends—she’d been avoiding Tessa, who was most certainly going to kill her at some point in the very near future. She’d tried watching television but found that once she finally decided on a show, after twenty or thirty minutes, she had no idea what was happening. Reading posed a similar problem in that she’d read the same paragraph seventeen times before she retained any of it. She had managed to walk with Walter a few times, but she’d gone to a completely different park, afraid she’d run into Hayley if she went to her usual one.

The only person she’d told about the Fairy Trail Incident was her mother when she was at her house on Sunday, and she now wished vehemently that she hadn’t. The conversation had been dizzying.

“You kissed? That’s wonderful!” her mother had said, with enormous excitement, as she rolled meatballs and set them in the electric frying pan.

“It’s not wonderful, Mama. It’s not wonderful at all.” Olivia shook her head as she used tongs to turn the meatballs that were already browning.

“Why not? Tell me why it’s not wonderful.”

“Because,” Olivia stressed and sounded lame even to herself.

“She’s pretty.” She set another meatball in the hot oil.

Olivia inhaled a big breath and let it out very slowly before nodding in reluctant agreement. “She definitely is that.”

“She was lovely on Thanksgiving. Polite. A good conversationalist.”

“Ma. Enough.”

“I think it’s wonderful. I like her.”

And they’d gone around and around like that for what felt like days but was really only the time it took to finish the meatballs.

Thankfully, Hayley hadn’t seemed to be trying to find her either. Olivia had worked Saturday, and Hayley had worked Sunday, and neither of them bothered the other. At all. More unusual for Hayley, as she lived upstairs, but still. Olivia was grateful.

And at the same time, a little bit annoyed.

Whiskey tango foxtrot, Liv? she’d chided herself more than once. She knew she had no right to be upset with Hayley’s lack of contact if Olivia herself wasn’t willing to make an effort either. Maybe Hayley was having the same issue? Olivia sighed. She had no freaking idea.

It was Monday now, the first day they’d have to be together all day, and so far, they’d managed to do exactly not that. It was almost funny, really, how strategically they’d avoided each other, Olivia finding a reason to go to another part of the resort within five minutes of Hayley coming into the office. Hayley doing the same.

With a sigh that was almost more of a groan, Olivia returned to her work, tried to focus on the list of emails she should have answered this morning. Now it was after noon.

She’d only been typing for a few

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