A Pinch of Salt by Bethany Lopez

Author:Bethany Lopez [Lopez, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Pinch of Salt
Publisher: Bethany Lopez
Published: 2017-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Millie

“OKAY, THERE’S AN IMPORTANT TOPIC you’ve been avoiding, and we need to get serious. We’re running out of time,” Dru was saying from my chaise, where she was currently snuggled up with a glass of wine. “Our birthday party.”

“Ugh,” I groaned, throwing my head back and grunting as I hit the cushion behind me. “We’re going to be twenty-nine, not nine, Dru. Aren’t we getting a little old for parties?” I asked. “It’s not even a milestone.”

“Every birthday is a milestone,” Dru said dryly, then looked to where our sister was laying on the floor and added, “Tasha’s got my back on this one.”

“I don’t know,” Tasha replied, tilting her head back so she was looking at us upside down. “Maybe Millie’s right and we’re getting too old to make such a fuss.”

“Too old?” Dru asked with mock fury, sitting up so abruptly that she almost spilled red wine on my gray sofa. Luckily, she didn’t. “We’re still in our twenties, for crying out loud. We should be hitting the clubs, going nuts, instead we work our butts off and a night in with a bottle of wine is considered living it up. Come on, you guys, don’t take my birthday away from me.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at my twin’s dramatics, she’d always been more into parties and celebrations than me.

“What if this year, we only celebrate your birthday with a party, the way you want to?” I suggested. “Mine can be more low key, the way I want it.”

Dru looked at me as if I’d grown another head in the last few minutes.

“We share the same birthday, Millie,” she said, telling me something I obviously already knew. “We’ve always celebrated together.”

“That’s my point. Wouldn’t you rather have a party focused solely on you, instead of on both of us?”

She narrowed her eyes on me and asked, “Do you already have something planned with Jackson, is that why you’re trying to separate things?”

“No, I haven’t even told him our birthday is coming up yet.”

“You totally need to tell him. If he recited Keats to you while making love, I bet he’d do up your birthday all kinds of romantic,” Tasha said on a sigh.

I’d regretted telling them about Jackson’s words almost as soon as they were out of my mouth, but I’d been floating on a cloud and it had just spilled out.

“Shut it,” I ordered as I threw a pillow at Tasha’s head, which she avoided with a giggle.

“Are you serious about this?” Dru asked, still hung up on the birthday thing. Seriously, the girl loved parties, especially in her honor, and I’d never really cared one way or another. Maybe it was time for us to start doing things separately. Our lives had always been practically interchangeable, and although it was scary, I knew they couldn’t remain that way forever.

“Yes,” I replied, smiling at my sister. “Do it up however you want. Whatever theme, whatever food, anything you want.”

“But, what about you?” she asked softly.

“We can go out to lunch or something .

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