The Difference Is Love by Christine L'Amour

Author:Christine L'Amour [L'Amour, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Meg spent all week thinking about what would bring Harri’s mood up. Their conversation on the phone that day left a sour taste in her mouth—she hated to see how under her parents’ thumb Harri was, how hard this was for her. She couldn’t forget her own convoluted coming-out, though, and she wouldn’t wish it on anyone, much less her… her something.

So, she pondered how to cheer her up.

She ended up finding out through luck that there was a lake beach not two hours away from them, on a nearby town that not many people went to, since most people preferred to go to the public pools. It was something else to go to the beach, though, and Meg grinned when Fatima told her about it, because she already knew what she was going to do.

“Let’s go,” she said the next time she saw Harri, dropping a kiss on the tip of her nose.

“All right,” Harri said, indulgent and a bit helpless, and the next Saturday she gave her parents another set of excuses and left.

They went with Marcus’ car again, the windows rolled down and the radio blasting one of Meg’s most cheerful playlists. The sky was a clear blue and the sun scorching, and the wind carded through their hair and left them both looking wild and unkept when they arrived at the beach.

There was no one they knew around, so Meg didn’t hesitate to card her fingers through Harri’s locks and bring her closer to a kiss. Harri froze at first, but Meg was too easygoing and relaxed for her worries to survive. She leaned against Meg and kissed her back, hands on Meg’s hips.

“I’ll race you to the lake,” Meg whispered.

“Absolutely not,” Harri said promptly. “We need to put on sunscreen first. My arms are already red just from staying in the car. If I go into the water like this, I’m going to actually turn into a lobster.”

“It’s not even ten in the morning, we don’t need sunscreen yet,” Meg argued, pulling Harri toward the water.

Harri pulled her back. “Do you want cancer?”

“Of course not! Ugh. When I was small, we never had to do any of this.”

“Right, grandma,” Harri said with a roll of her eyes.

Meg stopped complaining once Harri slathered up her hands and applied the sunscreen on her with questionable propriety. They kissed, faces sticky and white, and kissed again inside the lake, Meg finding the lack of salt water strange since it had been so long since she had been in a lake beach instead of the ocean, and once they were back to their little corner of the beach and eating a few sandwiches, Harri pressed her down and kissed her on the sand, too.

On her back with her hair filled with sand she would never wash out and Harri beaming brightly above her like Meg letting her push her down was a personal accomplishment, Meg could admit to herself that she was a big fat liar and that she owed Fatima an apology for it.

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