No Forever Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer

Author:Grace Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grace Palmer

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Holly

Downtown Nantucket

A little hair of the dog that bit you felt a whole lot like getting bit again, in Holly’s opinion. “I never want to see another mimosa in my life,” she announced.

Holly pushed her glass next away to the bouquet of white daisies sitting in the middle of the table. Daises that looked just as fresh as Lindsay and Diana. Holly had rolled out of bed looking like one of the lumpy, sludge-filled swamp monsters Grady had sitting on the shelf in his room, but her friends looked lovely. Pressed clothes, bright lipstick, artfully coiffed hairdos. Ready for a brunch at The Supper Club, one of Nantucket’s newest and hottest places to spend twelve dollars on a cup of coffee.

“These aren’t even that strong,” Lindsay said, frowning down at her glass, a red smear of lipstick printed on the dainty crystal rim.

“That’s because they didn’t follow your patented one-to-four ratio of orange juice to champagne,” Diana teased, flipping through the brunch menu, her nails sporting a fresh coat of white polish.

Lindsay shrugged. “Well, I’m sorry that I know how to party.”

Lindsay really did know how to party. Apparently, Diana did, too. Holly was the only one not let in on the secret. As far as she could tell, they’d all consumed roughly the same amount, but she was the only one who’d needed to press cold spoons to her eyes to de-puff them enough to see.

“No more partying for me,” Holly said firmly.

“Not until tonight, anyway!” Lindsay shimmied her shoulders with excitement. “I’ve already confirmed with Jamie that there will be a cash bar.”

“Jamie Walker? Is she the one in charge of planning?” All of Holly’s information about the reunion had come directly from Lindsay and Diana. Even though she was the one who still lived in Nantucket, she wasn’t in touch with many people from their graduating class.

Diana nodded and wagged a finger in the air, trying to flag the waitress. “She was our class president.”

“We had one of those?”

“Of course, we did,” Diana laughed. “How do you not remember this? The election scandal of 2005?”

Holly looked blankly at Diana over the table. Finally, she shook her head. “I’ve got nothing.”

Lindsay leaned over and nudged Diana, whispering loudly enough for the whole table and a few diners nearby to overhear. “That was the end of junior year when Miss Holly was head over heels in love with Mr. Pete Goodwin, you’ll remember.”

“That’s right!” Diana grinned and snapped her fingers. “When we didn’t see you for three months straight.”

“That’s a little dramatic,” she protested. But she couldn’t deny that there was a blank spot in her memory of high school. A period immediately after starting to date Pete, where all she remembered was rushing out of school and jumping into the passenger seat of his car.

But she still went to school. She still saw her friends between classes. She couldn’t have missed that much.

“Is it?” Lindsay raised a blonde brow. “If you weren’t with Pete, you were writing him love notes.

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