Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer

Author:LaVyrle Spencer [Spencer, LaVyrle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101537916
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2003-08-05T04:00:00+00:00

Inside the house Mary and Renee were watching 60 Minutes. Tess came charging in the back door, dripping. “Hey, will somebody bring me a towel, please?”

Renee showed up a moment later and tossed her one.

“About time you got here. We were getting worried.”

“Sorry. I should have called.” She threw off her cap, mopped the ends of her wet hair and sponged her soaked T-shirt.

“You weren’t out riding all this time. Not in the thunder and lightning.”

“No. I went to the Sonic Drive-in with Kenny.”

“With Kenny. Well.” Tess sat on a step and pulled off her boots while Renee studied the top of her red hair. “I thought you went riding with Casey. I didn’t know he was going along.”

Tess stood up, damp but no longer dripping, and set her boots against the wall. “Hey, listen, are you in a hurry to get home or could I talk to you for a minute?”

“I can stay awhile longer.”

Tess led the way across the kitchen and said quietly, so Mary couldn’t hear, “Come upstairs with me.” In the liv ing room Mary said, “You’re back, did you have a good time?” and returned to her show.

“Sure did.”

Upstairs Tess stripped off her wet clothes while Renee sat cross-legged on her old bed. “Just like when we were girls,” she said. “So what’s going on?”

Tess threw on a cotton pullover, pulled the rubber band out of her hair and sat at the vanity table, facing Renee, combing her wet bangs straight back, flat to her head. “It’s bizarre,” she told Renee. “You aren’t going to believe it.”

“Something with you and Kenny, obviously.”

Tess looked down at the comb in her hands and said, “Talk some sense into me, will you?”

“Maybe you’d better tell me what’s going on first.”

“I kissed him about five minutes ago in his car. He wouldn’t kiss me so I finally kissed him. Pretty stupid, huh?”

“That’s all. Just a kiss?”

“Yes. But, Renee, something has happened to me in these couple weeks I’ve been home. I’m bumping into him all the time and he turns out to be about the nicest guy I’ve met in years, and all of you treat him like he’s your brother, and he treats Momma like he’s her son, and then Casey gets into the picture and I’m just crazy about that girl, and I see what a good father he is, and the next thing you know we’re going to choir practice together, and this afternoon he shows up at Dexter Hickey’s and I start acting like a lovesick teenager. Renee, that’s not like me.”

Renee digested this for a moment. “Is he the reason you’re taking Casey to Nashville?”

“No! Renee, what do you take me for?”

“You’re sure?”

“Of course I’m sure. The thing with Casey started before I even said two words to Kenny.”

Renee took stock of her sister, weighing the situation for some time before speaking again.

What about Faith?”

“He won’t tell me anything about their relationship.”

Renee’s face looked as if she’d given this plenty of thought on her own.

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