Unforgettable by Karin Kallmaker

Author:Karin Kallmaker [Kallmaker, Karin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Lesbian, Contemporary, Romance, General, Lesbians, Class Reunions, Women Singers
ISBN: 9781931513630
Google: 13VCPgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1931513635
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Rett didn’t want to have this conversation again. What did Cinny expect her to say? “I’m not going to deny there’s a stigma. It’s hard enough to handle without generating homophobia from your own fears.”

“This isn’t all in my head!”

“Don’t you think I know that? I was the one they called lesbo, remember? I just found a way to stare them down. A way to say, ‘So what.’ Jerry Knudsen called me that and tried to feel me up. I kneed him in the nuts so hard his whole family felt it. I don’t know where I found the strength for it when everything else they called me hurt so much.” The memory of Jerry Knudsen gasping for breath on the ground turned her frown into a smile. Thereafter he’d stuck with calling her names from a safe distance.

Cinny drew in a long, shaky breath. “I don’t know what’s happening to me. I was okay until I saw you. I was managing. I want you so much I can’t think,” she whispered. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Rett knew that ache, and part of her wanted to comfort Cinny, but she knew it would be unwise to touch her. She had thought on the way to the reunion that she’d be happy if Cinny got just the tiniest taste of her own high-school medicine, but now it didn’t please her at all. “I’m sorry, really.” She could think of nothing else to say.

“So am I.” Cinny waded back to shore and ran over the grass, pausing in the trees to glance back briefly before slipping on her sandals to return to the picnic.

Poor Cinny, Rett thought. How do you take the cheerleader out of the all-American girl? She had not considered that Cinny had felt the weight of other people’s hopes and expectations and had never learned to put them in the perspective of her own happiness. Rett wished that she could make it easier, somehow, but only Cinny could decide what to do with the choices she’d made.

She waded along the shore for a few minutes, stopping to hold one foot after the other out of the water to feel the sand drip off. Mosquitoes only plagued her in the deepest shade, so she waded out to the sunshine. It took her a few minutes to realize that someone on the shore was keeping pace with her.

From the way her body tightened and her heart pounded, she knew who it was before she fully registered the small, dark-haired woman. They stared at each other over the strip of water separating them.

“Mind if I walk with you?” Angel balanced like a flamingo to unstrap first one sandal, then the other. She waded into the water and it seemed to Rett that the water glowed where it was lucky enough to embrace Angel’s calves.

“Not at all,” she said in a belated squawk.

They waded along the shore for several minutes, then Angel finally said, “I have a lot of flaws.”

Rett hadn’t known what to expect but it certainly hadn’t been that.

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