Summer in the City by Elizabeth Chandler

Author:Elizabeth Chandler [Chandler, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780060847340
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2005-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

When we arrived home that night, there was a message from Ted on the answering

machine. “Hey, Jamie. I’m painting the living room tomorrow, so I’ll have the game on

inside. If you can stand the smell of paint and are just hanging out, come over.” I saw the

disappointment on Mom’s face when she heard Ted’s voice, and I knew she had hoped it

was Viktor.

Nine o’clock Sunday morning Viktor arrived and settled into making breakfast, fussing

over my mother, insisting that she put her feet up and read the paper. When I asked him

for one of his juice concoctions, he made a pleased fuss over that, too.

Mona drove up at eleven thirty and we walked to The Avenue. Her hair was pulled back

as usual, showing off her gorgeous eyes and cheekbones, but today her long braids were

uncoiled, swinging loose down her back, dancing whenever she laughed. From a shop

called Oh, Said Rose, she bought earrings that also swung. We tried on vintage hats at Fat

Elvis, then I squeezed my feet into several pairs of fabulous slip-ons at Ma Petite Shoe,

but we only bought truffles there—the store sold shoes and chocolate—what more could

a girl want?

During a late lunch at Café Hon, Mona pulled from her bag several copies of coaching

schedules that had been used at the basketball camps in previous years. Each of us was

assigned ten players who would be entering sixth to eighth grade, but that didn’t tell us as

much as we’d need to know to decide on drills and teaching points. We talked through all

the possibilities so that we would be ready for whatever level of player showed up.

While Mona and I were working with middle school girls, Todd and Jake, two of the

guys who I’d met through Josh on Friday, would be coaching middle school boys in

basketball. Josh and Sam, the friendly blond guy, would be running the lacrosse camp for

middle school boys.

“Sam is Josh’s teammate at Hopkins,” Mona informed me. “He’s a defenseman—Josh

says he’s aggressive and a wild man on the field, but a marshmallow off.”

The six of us, plus two more girls, would be working the weeklong afternoon camp with

elementary school kids, grades two though five. The coaches and counselors had met

before lacrosse camp, so Ms. Mahler had given Mona the notes from that meeting and

asked her to go over them with me. Another eight A.M. meeting was scheduled Monday

to straighten out any last-minute problems. I was excited and couldn’t wait to tell Dad the

news that his baby girl was coaching.

Mona and I were eating after the peak lunch hour, so we sat at our table for a long time,

unrushed by the waitress, stirring the crushed ice in our glasses and talking. We switched

from camp and sports to college hopes.

“So, what’s the status with Andrew?” she asked.

“We were talking about colleges,” I replied.

“Well, he’s a college guy,” she reasoned. “But even if he wasn’t, I wouldn’t let you off

the hook that easily. Friday, you had plans for the most romantic date gone on by any girl

I actually know,

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