Something Blue by Heather McGovern

Author:Heather McGovern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Beth smiled as she finished texting and set her phone down.

Across from her, Cece worked on her laptop, her leg elevated in a chair beside her. She glanced up. “Another text from Sawyer?”

“How can you tell?”

“You make oogly eyes when you text with him. Totally gives it away.”

“I don’t make oogly eyes.”

Cece eased the top of her laptop down just enough to do a dramatic interpretation of mooning over something imaginary, complete with eyelash batting and face fanning.

Beth laughed at the ridiculous display. “Okay, I may be a little oogly-eyed, but I know I don’t do all that.”

“Maybe not that bad, but close.”

She tossed a wadded-up piece of paper at Cece.

“Seriously, though, I think it’s nice. It’s good to see you happy.”

Beth was definitely happy. It’d been a week since their horseback riding date. They’d texted and chatted every day since, and a few days ago he’d asked her out on a one hundred percent legitimate lunch date to the new southern bistro in town.

Turned out both of them had a guilty love of pimento cheese, so when the waitress brought out little pimento cheese sandwiches as an appetizer, they’d not only demolished the entire plate, but ordered a second.

They’d taken a long walk downtown after, to walk off the ’ninner cheese, as her sisters liked to call it, and ended up swinging in the little park. He’d kissed her goodbye at her car and she’d been worthless all afternoon, her mind constantly drifting from Shelby’s seating chart to Sawyer’s lips.

“You’re oogly-eyed again, sis.” Cece threw the paper back at her.

To top off a great week, she and Cece had been fine all week. Under the circumstances, she was particularly grateful.

Over the years, they were rarely if ever openly mad at each other. Any open expression of anger was always between Beth and Aurora.

In contrast, whenever Beth and Cece were out of sorts, they got quiet with each other. Cece hated confrontation and Beth hated who she became when in a confrontation. So they walked around not talking, knowing everything wasn’t okay but never addressing it, until Beth cracked a few days later. By then, time had passed and they usually moved forward without event.

Her rare arguments with Aurora, on the other hand, always included confrontation, yelling, Aurora slamming a door or two and banging around the kitchen.

But this week, she and Cece had gotten along just fine. A stark contrast to any other time Cece was hurt or in need. Plus, she was getting around quickly on her crutches, no more pain meds, and they’d reached a compromise that, at least for the first few weeks once back to hiking, she’d hike with a partner.

Maybe it was the talk with Sawyer that made the difference. She was more aware of her actions and her reactions to Cece, but also gave herself the grace to want to help her little sister and not feel guilty about it.

“Do you two want any more coffee or a snack before we get started?” Aurora popped her head in to ask.

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