Up on the Roof by A.L. Brooks

Author:A.L. Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ylva-Publishing
Published: 2018-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Leading Lena back into the house, Megan tried hard to tamp down the glow that had taken over her whole being at the course of events over the last twenty minutes. Lena calling out her entire family on her hated nickname had first stunned her, then pleased her in a way she couldn’t define. She’d wanted to hug Lena but had been aware of Lena pulling back from the closeness of the moment they’d shared in the garden and decided not to push it.

They walked back into the kitchen to find Karen cutting slices out of a chocolate ice cream dessert.

“The boys,” she said, waving her knife at the dessert. “They couldn’t wait. If you don’t want any now it’s fine, I’ll put it back in the freezer.” Karen placed two hefty chunks of the treat onto some paper plates. “And if those two little arseholes throw up after this, I’ll kill them.”

Megan snorted and delighted in hearing Lena chuckling beside her. Megan’s family could be a bit rough round the edges, so it was good to see Lena rolling with the punches.

“I’m going to use the bathroom,” Lena said, and walked quickly out of the room.

“Everything okay, Megs?” Karen had paused in her slicing and was looking at Megan in concern. Her sister-in-law was usually brash and loud, her personality as big as her body, but every now and then she displayed a softer, more intuitive side.

“Yeah, all good. Don’t worry.”

“She’s a nice girl. How long you two been seeing each other?”

Megan’s eyes widened and her cheeks turned pink. “Oh! No, no, we’re not together. She’s just using my spare room, that’s all.”

Karen’s eyebrows rose. “Oh. Okay.” She turned back to the dessert and pushed the remaining chunk back into its box.

Megan should have let it go, she knew that. But she couldn’t help asking, “What? Why did you think we were a couple?”

Karen turned back to her, smiling. “Nothing in particular. You just seem really…comfortable with each other. I assumed…”

“Oh.”

Weird. First Dorothy, now Karen. What were they seeing? And was it really there?

When Lena returned from the bathroom, Megan had a hard time meeting her eye, as if what Karen had said had somehow been audible to Lena too.

“Want some tea?” she asked, reaching for the kettle. She knew from their time together that Lena usually wanted tea after a meal; it was becoming second nature to ask the question while automatically reaching for the kettle anyway.

“Please.”

Megan turned back briefly to Lena, and it was her undoing. Lena was gazing across the kitchen at her with an expression so full of warmth and appreciation, it had Megan’s breath catching in her throat. Which was swiftly followed by hacking coughs and splutters as she choked on her own oxygen intake. Lena was across the room like a shot, pounding on Megan’s back before reaching for a glass and running tap water into it.

“Here,” she said, passing the glass over, which Megan took hold of gratefully in a shaking hand.

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