The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

Author:Rachael Allen [Allen, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781419741128
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Amelia Grace

“Thanks for trusting me on this,” I tell Heidi. “I think it’s gonna look really great.”

“I can’t wait to see the finished product,” she says. Her stomach growls. Audibly. She laughs. “I’m gonna take that as a sign that I should go make lunch for us. You up for a break in about twenty minutes?”

“Sure thing. I just want to get the doors on these cabinets.”

Heidi leaves, and I get back to work. The bookshelves are coming along really well. There’s this one wall of the nursery with a big window looking out onto the lake, and I’m putting a built-in bookcase on either side with cabinets for storage and a window seat in the middle with drawers underneath for more storage and an eensy connecting bookshelf in the triangle-shaped span of wall over the window. The whole thing looks like one cohesive piece, and I’m in love with it. I can’t wait to show Heidi the fabric options I’m thinking of for the window seat.

I attach the last cabinet door and brush my hands off on my shorts.

“Gorgeous,” I say to no one in particular.

I head downstairs for lunch, passing photos of Heidi and Val on the stairwell. I stop in front of a big one of them on their wedding day. They both have on white dresses, but Heidi looks like a wood sprite and Val has on a leather jacket. They’re so happy.

I don’t think I want to wear a wedding dress when I get married. And then I realize: I’ve never thought about getting married until today. Being in their house and hanging out with Heidi—it makes me feel different things. I imagine myself in a house like this, in a photo like that. The girl next to me in the photo starts to take shape.

“Hey there.”

I jump.

Heidi is standing at the bottom of the stairs, watching me in a way that makes me feel like she’s been there for a while. Long enough to see me gazing sappily at their photo.

I blush. “Hey, I was just coming down.”

I head past Heidi and into the kitchen.

She looks at me with eyes that make me feel like I can’t hide anything (she’s definitely going to be a good mom, that one). “Amelia Grace, do you—”

“Want a sandwich? Yes, I’m starving.” I grab a plate and take a ludicrously big bite so I don’t have to answer any questions.

After I leave Heidi’s, I go to the carriage house, and then it’s shower/dinner/SBDC. We don’t have a full-on meeting, we just play cards for a little bit while we wait for it to be optimal Sneak Out to Parties time. Which is good, because I’m not really ready to tell everyone how badly things are going on the youth minister front. Just being with the three of them makes me feel better though. More hopeful. I’m meeting a girl tonight, I tell myself. Zoe, her name is Zoe, and it’s going to be awesome. All I have to do is survive this card game and then sneak out of the house and steal a boat.

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