Wait for It by Mariana Zapata

Author:Mariana Zapata [Zapata, Mariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-06T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Lou, you wanna go with me and see if Miss Pearl and Mr. Dallas want to come eat dinner with us?” I asked.

His hands paused on the remote in his hands as he seemed to mull over my proposal. “Mr. Dallas?”

“Yes.” Josh was over at his friend Kline’s house, so it was just the two of us. “Since he helped us with the backyard earlier,” I explained.

While I’d been in the middle of a shower, I came up with the idea of inviting him over for dinner as a thank-you for helping us clean up the yard hours ago. It was the least I could do. I knew he had leftovers, but that way they would last longer. He’d shown up at ten o’clock on the dot and stuck around for the next two hours, going above and beyond the neighborly and friendly call of duty.

Problem was, I didn’t want to make him feel weird. So I figured, why not invite his nana too? The nana I still didn’t understand he had.

With more grace than I figured the average five-year-old was capable of, Louie nodded. “Okay.”

“Okay, come on.” I gestured toward the door, and Mac, who was lying on the couch besides my kid, sat up, expectantly thinking he was going to get another walk. “I’m making your favorite at least, buster.”

“Chicken nuggets?” he gushed.

I blinked at him. “Spaghetti and meatballs.”

His shoulders slumped forward. “Oh. Yeah. I like that too.”

I sighed. “Let’s go.”

He followed me, pausing his game as he got to his feet. He’d dressed himself this morning and had on a bright green T-shirt with a pizza on it and red and black striped pajama pants. I thought about telling him to change, but who cared? It was only dinner.

Louie and I crossed the street, holding each other’s hands. I reached down and pinched him on the butt as we walked up the path to Dallas’s house, and halfway up the steps to the porch, the little turd smacked me on the butt. We were bickering as I knocked on the door and stood back, waiting. I wasn’t even sure if he was home or not. I was sticking my tongue out at Louie as the lock was turned.

I faced the door as it opened, expecting it to be a certain brown-haired, hazel-eyed man that I owed big time….

But it wasn’t him on the other side of the screen door.

It was a woman. A pretty, natural auburn-haired woman, and she was smiling. “Hi,” she said.

It took me maybe two seconds, but I managed to get out, “Hey. Is—”

The door opened wider and the woman stepped back as another face I recognized came forward with his eyebrows furrowed and the sides of a thinner mouth turned down into a frown. “Yeah?” was the ugly, unfinished greeting I got from the man I hadn’t seen in a while. Jackass Jackson.

“Hi. Is Dallas here?” I asked slowly, with as much patience as I could drag together—which wasn’t much, especially when this small part of my brain wondered if the woman was here with Jackson or… not.

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