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He kissed me and walked out.
Ally waved at Lee, who was getting on his bike as she walked in, and announced, “You have to miss a period, but I bought a couple pregnancy tests anyway, just in case.” And she waved around the boxes.
I looked at Eddie.
Eddie smiled.
TWENTY-FIVE
LONG-LASTING RELIABILITY
Ifilled Ally in on the Cherry explosion and the reason for my new bodyguard.
Ally said, “There are a lot of things I imagined happening to her after she tried to trap Lee, but that wasn’t one of them.”
Then she put some Black Crowes in the CD player and turned up the volume.
Ally wasn’t one to reflect. She preferred rock ’n’ roll.
More customers came in, and luckily we were busy enough to keep our minds off the latest disaster.
I was sitting behind the book counter finishing an emergency order for coffee, because if we continued at this rate we’d run out by the end of the week, when my cell rang.
It was Dad.
“Hey, Daddy-o,” I said.
“Hey, sweetie pie.”
His voice was soft and mushy. My dad wasn’t a soft and mushy type of guy.
“Are you okay?” I asked.
“Kitty Sue called. If it’s a boy, you gotta name him after your Grandpa Herbert. I promised him if your mother and I had a boy, we’d do it and we never got ’round to it, so it’s up to you.”
I was sitting frozen to the spot, like a statue.
“Indy?”
I stayed silent.
“Okay, you can use Herbert as a middle name.”
“I’m not pregnant!” I shouted and everyone looked at me.
“Then why’d Kitty Sue call me asking me to your baby shower? Though, I’m not into this co-ed baby shower shit. I’ll send a gift.”
“I’m not pregnant!” I repeated.
“You’re not?” Dad asked.
Man, this was embarrassing.
“I’ll call you later,” I told him.
I flipped the phone shut and glared at Ally. “You called Kitty Sue.”
“No I didn’t,” she replied.
