Sweet Tea Tuesdays by Ashley Farley

Author:Ashley Farley [Farley, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-09T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Lula

When Lula regained consciousness, she understood right away that she was riding in an ambulance, although she had no idea how she’d gotten there.

“Welcome back.” The EMT’s kind smile and soft voice made up for his otherwise unattractive appearance. He reminded Lula of a gnome, with his pointed bald head and his short gray beard covering only his cheeks and chin. “How do you feel?”

“Like a herd of elephants is tromping on my head.”

He reached behind him for his clipboard. “That’s understandable. You hit your head pretty hard. Do you remember falling?”

Despite the pain, she forced herself to think back. She had no recollection of falling. The last thing she remembered was meeting Brooke’s girlfriend. We’ve been together for two years now. “What day is it?”

“Wednesday, the fifth of July,” the EMT answered.

The fifth of July? She remembered nothing about the party. Had she suffered some sort of stroke that was affecting her memory? “Where did I fall?”

“Down the porch steps at your beach house. You cracked your forehead open on the sidewalk.” He removed a bloody wad of gauze from her forehead and replaced it with a fresh bandage, securing it with first aid tape. “Have you experienced any recent changes in health?”

Her thoughts were all jumbled, as if someone had cracked open her head, dumped her brains into a bowl, and scrambled them with a whisk. Who would that someone have been? Heidi the caterer or Brooke the troublemaker? Did he want to know about the crazy thoughts that kept popping into her head and the strange things that flew out of her mouth unfiltered? She decided not to tell him.

“I’ve been tired lately, and a bit on edge, but I only have myself to blame. For some crazy reason, I decided to throw a last-minute Fourth of July party for ninety people. Oh . . . and I fainted a few weeks back. But that’s because I got overheated. My air conditioning was out, and I was cooking in the kitchen with the oven on high.”

His pen flew across the clipboard as he jotted down notes. “What happened when you fainted? Were you out for very long?”

Lula thought back to that day, nearly a month ago. “I was sitting at the kitchen table. I’d just gotten off the phone with my daughter, who’d called to say she was coming home for a visit. I was excited. I haven’t seen her in a long time. I stood up from the table too quickly, and my knees went weak. I’m not sure how long I was out. My neighbors came to my rescue.”

His beady eyes narrowed as he continued to write. “Sounds like you’ve had a lot of excitement and stress in your life recently.”

“I found out yesterday my daughter is gay. Twenty-six years old and she comes out of the closet by introducing me to her girlfriend of two years.” Tears burned the back of Lula’s throat. Why was she telling a total stranger about her family drama? “Needless to say, the news came as a bit of a shock.

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