The Trouble with Dating Sue (Grover Beach Team #6) by Anna Katmore

Author:Anna Katmore [Katmore, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1518897118
Amazon: B014Z6J820
Published: 2015-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

MOM SAT IN the kitchen and ate the warmed-up food we’d saved her from our dinner. While waiting for Ethan to come home so I could finally start an undisturbed chat with Sue on the phone, I joined her at the table to kill time with another piece of cake and a cup of coffee.

“Hey, sweetie,” Mom said, scooping up veggies with her fork. “How was the afternoon with Susan?”

She didn’t say my afternoon with Sue, she said the afternoon. Keeping it general meant she still hoped it was Ethan’s afternoon with her. Terrific. I sipped the cappuccino and licked the foam off my lip. “It was nice.”

“Just nice?” She smiled in a very demanding, very conspiratorial way. “Did Susan like Ethan’s meal?”

“Umm…I guess.” I lowered my gaze together with my voice. “And she liked my cake, too.”

Mom cut another piece from her steak and chewed it with way too much enthusiasm. “Are they out together now?”

“Yeahhh…no. Or maybe.” Heck, where were they? Ethan had said he’d drive her home, not stay with her for two and a half hours. “He was just going to give her a ride. I don’t know what’s keeping him so long.”

“Good.” She grinned at her plate, dragging the word out unnecessarily.

Dammit, had she even heard what I said? I spun my cup on the saucer. Ethan was supposed to be home already. Mom should be worrying where he was, not happy that he was out with my girl. To cut off her delight, I muttered, “I don’t think the two of them would make such a great couple.”

“Oh,” she said around a mouthful of green beans. “Why would you say that?”

As the weight of dejection grew heavier in my chest, I looked up and stared into her hopeful eyes for a few seconds, then sniffed defiantly, “Because I kissed Sue today. And she kissed me back. I intend to do it again. Is that okay with you?”

My mother’s jaw dropped, giving me an exclusive view of chewed-up green stuff.

Since I was well on the way to destroying her wonderful evening anyway, I added, “Oh, and Mom—I think Ethan’s gay. You know you can do nothing to change that, not even if you push the girl I like upon him at every given moment.” Eyes narrowed, I let go of the coffee cup and rose from the chair. On the way out of the kitchen, I told her without looking back, “There’s a piece of cake for you in the fridge.”

Now didn’t that go well…

Crabbier than I’d already been the past hour, I trudged to the living room, belly-flopped on the couch, and turned on the TV. Whatever was on didn’t hold my interest, so I started zapping through the channels. It was nine thirty—my special time with little Sue. Where the hell was Ethan?

It took Mom about fifteen minutes to stomach the shock, but when she finally came into the living room, her look was one of pure guilt. She stopped in the doorway, and we locked gazes for several long seconds.

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