Life's A Cappella by Smith Yessi

Author:Smith, Yessi [Smith, Yessi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fiction, contemporary romance, drama, chick lit
Publisher: Yessi Smith
Published: 2013-11-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Erin

A week after my court date, Shayna was allowed to stay the night with me in my hotel room. One night turned into two, and two had somehow turned into a month. While I had reassured my job I would return, my boss had been forced to find a temporary replacement. And Dan being Dan, had given me a few hours of work during the morning shift so I could have some sort of cash flow. It wasn’t much, but I made it work.

After a month and two weeks in Alabama, I finally had temporary custody of Shayna and could return to Miami. I’d have to return to Alabama to finalize the adoption, but the dread of my hometown no longer haunted me. With my mother in the ground, I felt safe. Content even.

Shayna and I had said our goodbye’s to Emily and Dan the previous night at the diner where Dan had prepared Shayna’s and my favorite: the world’s best bacon double cheeseburgers and fries. Nate had promised to take us to the airport so I knew it was him at the door when I heard knocking.

“You keep packing,” I told Shayna, who was stuffing her dolls in the princess suitcase Nate had bought her. “I’ll get the door.”

I let him in and quickly took away the box of doughnuts he had brought with him.

“How do you stay so skinny?” he asked.

“Good metabolism,” I told him between bites. “And I envision myself running every morning as I peel myself off the bed.”

“It’ll catch up to you,” he said far too happily. “Then you’ll have a gigantic butt,” he said, spreading his arms apart.

“Great! I’ll finally have curves,” I laughed.

“What’s that?” Shayna came out of the room we had been sharing carrying my pack of tampons.

I turned to Nate who was bent over laughing and felt myself turn red until I remembered the good looking man I had met at the airport no longer existed. He had been replaced by an old friend who had turned into family. So I thoroughly explained what the tampons were for and watched Nate squirm as I explained what happened to the female body once a month.

“Cool!” Shayna exclaimed and then skipped back to our room to continue packing.

“Great parenting skills,” he told me and I agreed.

So far, Shayna had been easy to take care of. I had worried the first week she stayed with me because I didn’t want to have to call Emily or Nate with questions. I wanted to do it on my own, without screwing up too badly.

But she had made the transition from my old life to my new one so easy, and I couldn’t bare the idea of going back to my old life. She was such a naturally happy girl and rarely complained that she actually made me happier just by being near her. I had been reading about how to best parent a four year old and found myself exceptionally lucky that she seemed to be skipping the fearsome four’s.

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