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“You’re ashamed,” Mom said.
My eyes moved to Mom and I stared at her. “What?”
“You’re ashamed of me. That’s why you didn’t bring him up here,” she declared.
“I’m not ashamed,” I snapped.
And I wasn’t. There were far more complicated reasons why I didn’t bring Eddie up and it had nothing to do with being ashamed of my mother.
“There’s no other reason,” she accused.
“I told you, he had to get to work.”
“You didn’t want him to see me like this.” Mom indicated her chair.
“That’s just not true,” I replied.
“I don’t believe you. You never bring anyone around. I can’t help how I am right now, but I’m getting better all the time,” Mom went on.
“It’s not that,” I said.
“Then what is it?” she asked.
“We were kissing, all right!” I shouted.
Yeesh.
Mom’s mouth snapped closed and her eyes got all bright and dreamy. Ada clasped her hands in front of her with obvious joy.
This was not a good sign.
“Ladies, don’t get excited,” I warned.
“How can I not get excited? He’s cute. He has a good job and a fancy truck. What’s not to get excited about?” Mom asked.
“And he looks good in those mirrored sunglasses. I bet most cops wish they could wear those sunglasses like your Eddie can. He can really pull them off,” Ada put in.
I turned to Ada first. “Ada, honey, he’s notmyEddie.” Then I turned to Mom. “The reason you shouldn’t get excited is because he’s a nice guy. That’s it, the end. At first, I think he was curious, but now he’s…”
I didn’t know what he was. I had to find an explanation for it, for the kiss, his defending my virtue last night, everything. I usually did this in my head, where it was safe, not out loud to my mother.
My mind whirled to find an explanation.
He was a good guy, a cop for goodness sake. He had to wonder about me, especially since I spent time with his friends. Now he’d figured me out and obviously wanted to rescue me. And although I wouldn’t mind being rescued by Eddie, what happened after that? What happened when he realized that I wasn’t interesting and exciting? What happened when he found out I was really Just Jet?
I didn’t want to know.
“He’s what?” Mom snapped me out of my thoughts.
“Nothing. We’ll see. Just don’t get excited, okay?” I told her.
She nodded, but she still looked dreamy.
Wonderful.
I thought about the fifty in my wallet. “You’ve been cooped up in here for days. I’m wheeling you down to Chipotle for lunch. Ada, you comin’? My treat.”
Ada smiled. “I’d love to. I never go anywhere.”
