Return to the Beach by Suzanne Jenkins

Author:Suzanne Jenkins [Jenkins, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Alison and Julie had everything ready for Lisa and baby Madelyn’s homecoming. They brought the bassinette in to place at the bedside. Pam had her cleaning crew in to do a thorough cleaning. “I’ve wanted to do this since the day she moved in, but she wouldn’t let me.”

The logistics of living together would be worked out in time. For now, Alison would keep Megan upstairs with her, assuming the boys would stay with Dan and Julie until Lisa got on her feet. Diana was thrilled they were living at Lisa’s house, and Alison had perfect behavior from her when she threatened, “We’ll go back to Dave’s if you’re not good.”

With all the shuffling around—Marian buying Ted’s house, Ted moving out to live with and possibly marry Charles Monroe, Alison moving into Lisa’s house, Will moving into Dave’s, Laura moving out of Pam’s house—the preparations for the Memorial Day party were a present but inconspicuous activity.

In between doing what she could to be a help to Lisa, Pam was orchestrating the biggest party of the year in Babylon. Everything needed was ordered, purchased, delivered or assembled. Now it just needed to be put into place. On Wednesday, a cadre of workmen were at the house, used to taking direction from Miss Pam.

One older man, Jose, reminded her that he’d been coming there to work for over fifteen years.

“Jose, this year come to the party. Please, bring your wife, too.”

Jose had been a constant in Pam’s life since she moved to Babylon. He was the handyman all of her neighbors lusted after because he was a dying breed, and she rarely shared his phone number with them unless he approved it and promised not to defect to their house. She’d never had Jose to a party before. It was time.

She thought of the people who were once important in her life, like her sisters, who she rarely heard from any longer, who would not be invited to the party. She thought of her acquaintances, like the women who worked the library book sale days with her for all the years she’d lived in Babylon. Besides their hours at the library, she ran into them at the grocery store and the gym, but beyond that, their lives didn’t cross. They were busy with their own lives and friends and families.

Natalie Borg, probably the only true friend she had left, was arriving in the morning with Ozzy, her longtime boyfriend, to stay the weekend. They’d act as quasi hosts. Her former friends came to mind. Jeanie was the one person no longer in her life that she missed.

After leaving her husband, Dave from Organic Bonanza, Jeanie had moved in with Ted Dale, Pam’s former neighbor, who was gay. Now Jeanie was living happily with John Zapelli, Pam’s former husband. On the rare occasions that Jeanie and Pam ran into each other in town, it was always congenial. Why did Pam cut off a friendship with someone she’d once loved and considered her best

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