When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord

Author:Emma Lord
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“So … Coop’s dead to us,” says Teddy, power walking through the East Village later that night, the GeoTeens app open in his hand.

On the long list of “Moments Teddy Inconveniently Forgets He Is Tall,” attempting to keep up with him on a city street might be in the top five. “Coop’s definitely testing me.”

“But he did try to reverse it.”

“Yeah, but…” I purse my lips, which is a mistake, because I am half jogging to stay on his tail and need all the air I can get. “You didn’t hear him on the phone. I really don’t think he’s going to cave on this. And I’ve only got two weeks to get him on my side.”

“So maybe it’s time to—y’know. Get someone else on your side. Figure out which one of them is your mom.”

“I don’t know yet,” I grumble.

Then Teddy says out loud the very words I’ve spent the last week trying to avoid. “You could just ask.”

It’s true. There are so many moments I could have ripped the Band-Aid off all this. I could have used my real last name and watched to see if they’d react. I could have filed something on the internet to get a copy of my birth certificate. I could have just said to any one of these women, point-blank, I’m looking for my mom, did you happen to drop a baby with a Cancer sun sign and a Leo moon off at the doorstep of a deeply nerdy college junior in the early 2000s?

“I just…” I pick up the pace and it’s less like I’m trying to keep up with Teddy and more like I’m trying to outpace my own thoughts. “I thought I’d just know, you know? And it’s weird that I don’t.”

“Well, let’s recap.” He glances at his phone and takes a sharp turn onto Twelfth Street, so fast my hair flies behind me like a whip when I follow. “All three of them knew your dad.”

“Yeah. And all three of them are arguably kind of like me. Like—Steph’s an actress and even went to school for it, and is also, like. You know. Vain like I am. But in a cool, harmless way.”

“Tell that to the tube of your lipstick that exploded in my backpack when you stashed it in there last summer.”

“And Farrah—yeah, she can actually dance and I can’t, but I feel like we share the same bluntness, and her hair is the exact color of strawberry blond that mine would be if I didn’t dye it. And Beth loves musical theater, and she was a super moody teen, and she has a kid who is just as bad at dancing and weirdly passionate about things as I am—”

“Hey, how did the dance class with Chloe go, anyway?”

“Oh!” It’s a good thing Teddy is navigating, because I’m thinking out loud so fast he could lead me straight into a subway tunnel and I’d mosey on in. “Chloe has a crush on you.”

Teddy looks at me bewilderedly.

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