Quandary by Susan X. Meagher

Author:Susan X. Meagher [Meagher, Susan X.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbian, Fiction, romance, Adult
ISBN: 9780989989541
Amazon: B00OWZHSQI
Publisher: Brisk Press
Published: 2014-10-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

RYAN HUNG UP THE phone on Sunday morning, looking at Jamie plaintively. “I love having my family here, and it’s great to have your mom and Jennie and Mia and Jordan, but everybody looks to me to arrange everything.” She sighed heavily. “How am I supposed to know where all of us can eat breakfast? Every time I’ve been to Fresno I’ve been on a team bus. I’m not a travel agent.”

Jamie was fresh from the shower, and she sat down next to Ryan on the bed. “It’s a mixed blessing, isn’t it?”

“It is. But I hate that it is,” she said earnestly. “I want to enjoy having them here, but it adds more pressure.”

“You’ve got a lot on your mind. I should’ve taken over from the start. You go take a shower and then hang out with your teammates. You need to be in a good mental space to play today, and wrangling this crowd isn’t going to help you.”

Ryan looked like a guilty child. “Could I really do that?”

“You can. Now get going.” She leaned over and kissed Ryan quickly. “You’ve been absolved of all responsibilities…other than playing like a star.”

Ryan kissed her back and gave her a firm hug. “It’s great being in a relationship,” she said, giving Jamie such a happy smile that it warned her heart for hours.

***

After Ryan left Jamie got the phone book out and found that the only place they could all have breakfast was a pancake house just down the freeway. She called everyone and they agreed to meet in the lobby. Jordan was the first to show up, and she signaled Jamie to join her in a darkened conference room. “We’re supposed to go back this afternoon, but if Ryan wins the first game I want Mia to stay. Will you help me work on her?”

“Does she want to stay?”

“Yeah, a lot. But we planned on going home together and she hates to abandon me. Her term,” Jordan added, smiling wryly. “She says she needs to go to Colorado and get ready to go to Switzerland, but I think she just doesn’t want me to be alone.”

“Right,” Jamie nodded, having forgotten the trip. “She’s going with her mom, right?”

“Yeah, I leave Friday and she and her mom are coming over on the twenty-ninth.”

“When is that? I hardly remember what month it is.”

“A week from tomorrow. Knowing Mia, she’ll throw some things in a bag while the cab is outside honking.”

“Yeah, it’s hard to imagine her spending a week getting ready for anything.”

“She’s extemporaneous,” Jordan said, smiling the way she often did when she spoke of Mia.

***

The early afternoon game produced much more tension than it did runs. Florida looked far sharper than they had during their first losing effort against Cal. They were tied at one for much of the game, but Cal squeezed out a run in the fourth inning that they managed to make stand up, winning the emotional game two to one.

The final out had barely shown on the scoreboard when Jordan started to work on Mia.

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