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“Mom,” Vannah lowered her voice glancing back at her sister as she opened her bottled water. “Where’s dad and the boys? Are they listening?”
“No, I purposely passed on going into the comic book and gaming store so that I could call you.” Vannah heard her mom thank someone then was back to talking to her. “I came into the coffee shop next door instead. Seriously, Savannah, your fathers all worked up over this. Thinks you’re keeping stuff from us. You know we don’t have secrets in this family, honey.”
“I’m not keeping secrets, mom,” Vannah insisted even as her sister smirked and shook her head. “My first official date, if you could even call it that, was just this past Monday. He’s just . . . I don’t know. Intense?”
Vannah knew it sounded insane, but fact was just one week or not, she’d already shed a few tears over this guy. She explained about not having been able to see him but having kept in touch all week and how their much-anticipated lunch date yesterday was cancelled last minute.
“It’s when he saw Nena with another guy.”
She smiled remembering how relieved he’d been about getting it straight today. “Yeah, I’ll get to her too when we get home. You girls have always been so good about being able to tell me everything. I don’t want that to change.”
“It won’t. It hasn’t.” She assured her then heeding her mother’s worries and feeling a little guilty she decided to tell her more. “He’s not a boy either, mom. I didn’t meet him at school. He’s twenty-five, has his own apartment and just recently became part owner of his own business. An auto repair and restoration shop.”
Her mother’s response was not anything she’d been expecting. “Are you in love, Savannah?”
Feeling her face flush and slightly scandalized, Vannah walked into her bedroom. “Mom, I told you, it’s only been a week.”
Her mom chuckled. “Doesn’t make a difference. I didn’t even witness the outburst up close, but I saw and heard enough. With some guys it could be nothing more than them being territorial. But that boy and yes, I saidboy,twenty-five is still pretty wet behind the ears, has got it bad, honey. I see your dad and the boys headed out now,” she added quickly. “We’ll talk privately about this another time. Only piece of advice I’ll give you now because clearly this was a misunderstanding ofepicproportions and that only ever happens when there’s failure to communicate. Don’t do what your dad and I did for years, babe. You have something to say or that you want to know, you ask him straight out and encourage him to do the same. Trust me, you’ll save yourself a ton of heartache, not to mention eruptions like todays.”
“Okay I will,” Vannah said smiling weakly despite the flutter her mother’s words had given her heart. She thought about how she hadn’t dared question Byron’s text before today. Instead, chose to dissect it to death with Xochitl before crying about it. “And mom?”
“Yeah?”
“I love you.”
“Love you too, baby. See you in a few.”
