The Rules of Engagement: A Lesbian Romance by Cara Malone

Author:Cara Malone [Malone, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-09T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Ruby was a little buzzed by the time she watched Max retreat into the house for the second time, and she was a little annoyed at the necessity of having to chase after her again. She told Max to come find her when she was done in the bathroom, and instead she’d apparently gone to sit by herself on the other side of the pool. Ruby would have joined her, but her father had sat down next to Max instead. She thought it was nice that her dad was keeping Max company, and it looked like everything was going well until Max suddenly ran back into the house.

Ruby wasn’t used to this level of diligence in making sure that Max was comfortable and enjoying herself, and she felt a little guilty – both at the fact that Max was obviously not having fun, and at the fact that she found herself irritated by this. She just wanted a chance to catch up with some people she hadn’t seen in a long time, and if she were with anyone but Max, that wouldn’t be too much to ask.

Before Ruby had a chance to extricate herself from the conversations going on around her, Lamar came over to the table looking bewildered.

“Hey, baby girl,” he said to Ruby. “I think I just screwed things up a bit with Max.”

“What happened?” Ruby asked.

This was not what she was expecting – usually it was Max who made the bad impression and had to apologize for things she didn’t realize were callous or inappropriate. Other people weren’t generally the ones apologizing for their interactions with Max. Ruby got up so that she wouldn’t have to have this conversation in front of everyone at the table.

“I think I touched on a sore spot,” Lamar said, glancing over at Megan apologetically.

“Oh, daddy,” Ruby said with a groan. “What did you say?”

“I was just trying to find something to talk about,” he said sheepishly. “She’s kind of hard to talk to and I may have started rambling a little bit. I told her how you and Megan have been friends for a long time, and I think I gave her the wrong idea.”

“I’ll go talk to her,” Ruby said with a sigh.

“I’m sorry, kiddo,” Lamar called after her.

Ruby gave him a half-smile and a shrug, letting him know he was off the hook, but he really would have been better off talking about anything under the sun instead of Ruby and Megan’s history. She went inside the house, thinking she’d find Max in the bathroom again and wondering how the night had gone so wrong so fast. When the party started, she had every intention of staying by Max’s side, being cordial but cool toward Megan, and making sure that Max was comfortable the whole time.

Then she had a beer, and then a whiskey sour, and then another one, and she remembered how nice it was to sit around and shoot the shit with old friends, and she forgot about being mindful of Max.

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