Tell Me Everything by Amy Hatvany

Author:Amy Hatvany [Hatvany, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beyond Def Lit
Published: 2019-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

Sixteen

I sent a text to Andrew the next morning, asking if he was still interested in getting together, even though I knew that he was. I told him that my parents were visiting for the weekend, so we wouldn’t be able to get together until the following one, which he said he understood. “Real life comes first,” he wrote. “Literally.”

Jake laughed when I told him Andrew’s last remark. “I see why you like him,” he commented, and I instantly felt guilty for not telling him the entire truth. But I wasn’t technically breaking any of the rules we’d set in place to protect us. He knew our last name and where I worked, but he’d also given me all of his personal information, which I’d confirmed by doing as he had suggested—I Googled him. He was, indeed, the founder and CEO of Lightning Design, a sizable internet design and tech services company. He was also single, according to the King county public records I reviewed online, and his house really was on the street in Kirkland that he’d named. If he’d been lying about any of it, I would have cut things off immediately. But since he’d been honest, I decided to trust him.

“What time are Grandma and Grandpa coming?” Ella asked me when she finally woke up, around noon. Her shift at Olive Garden had ended after ten the night before, but she always spent a few hours scrolling through Instagram while Snap Chatting with her friends when she got home from work, so gone were the days when she used to leap out of bed before the sun came up. Two years ago, as a freshman, she’d abandoned soccer to join the highly competitive Queens Ridge Raiders dance team, so instead of spending my Saturday mornings at short games, once or twice a month during competition season, I endured eight to ten hours sitting on uncomfortable bleachers. Dance demanded a lot of time, energy, and long hours of practice, but it was something Ella truly loved. I’d watched her self-confidence soar since joining the team—so much that she nabbed the position of junior class president without putting much effort into a campaign. Luckily, Bentley had also joined the team, so unless she had an event the same day, Charlotte joined me on those rock-hard bleachers, and we cheered our daughters on, together.

“They should be here around four,” I told Ella, now. Despite being dressed to meet clients, in a knee-length black shift dress covered in a tiny, white-flowered print, I was in the middle of doing an extra wipe-down of the kitchen in preparation for my mother’s critical eye. “How does your room look?”

“Meh.” Ella shrugged as she gathered her long curls into a messy bun on top of her head, securing it with a black elastic tie she almost always wore around her wrist. I marveled as the beautiful young woman she had morphed into over the last few years: she’d grown three inches, and long hours of dancing had carved her body into a lithe, well-sculpted piece of biological art.

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