Page 25 of Broken Pieces
Chapter Twelve
Raelynn
I don’t know how I could have been so stupid to not think that someone might see me sitting out by the pool. I knew there were no guests today, but it doesn’t mean that someone else wouldn’t have seen me.
And why did he have to try to console me. What could he possibly know about losing your best friend? Or being the reason they died? Why did I tell him what I did? He does nothing but drive me absolutely crazy every time I see him. So why am I getting so emotional over this now? The last thing I want to be thinking about is the feelings growing in me over Brooks when I am still torn up over the loss of Tyler and the empty hole that he left in my chest. The broken pieces I let shatter over the floor for getting involved with Logan. The mess I turned my life into with one stupid decision.
I hear the doorbell ring and it shakes the thoughts from my head. I throw a robe on over my bikini and run down the stairs. It must be Anna May from The Scrambled Egg. Ivy said she was going to be picking up the order today.
“Hey Anna,” I say as I open the door.
“Hi. How are you doing?”
“Great,” I say overly cheery.
“Glad to hear. I hate to rush you, but I have some things to do after running the bakery items over to the diner.”
“No worries. I was just about to jump into the shower anyway. I have them all packaged for you. You’ll have to apologize to Ivy for me, Brooks ate one of the damn muffins.”
She laughs as she follows me into the kitchen. “Can’t say I’m surprised. The last time he dropped them off for her she was missing one item from each package.”
“Please tell me she charged him for those.”
“She told him that if he was gonna keep eating all those treats his six-pack would go away, he’d start getting a dad bod and have to start wearing shirts and then he would never get laid.”
“Sounds about right. Too bad he didn’t listen.”
She pushes her red curls behind her ear and places the containers in bags. “I didn’t think he would. Besides it ain’t all that bad looking at him.”
I glance out the window and see him sitting at the pool where I left. “Yeah, you might be right.”
“Do I sense love in the air?”
“Ha! More like hate. He annoys me more than anyone. He started calling me Blue and it’s driving me crazy.”
She grins as she puts the last pie into a portable cooler. “That’s cute, he has a nickname for you. Did you give him one?”
“Yeah, arrogant asshole.”
She laughs at that. “It does have a nice ring to it.”
I shake my head as I walk her to the door, “Well thanks for stopping by. I’ll see you later.”
“See ya.”
I shut the door behind her and head upstairs. Thoughts of Brooks still in my head.
* * *
“She’s going into labor?” I scream into the phone.
“Yeah, we are just getting to the hospital now,” my brother replies as I throw clothes around my room looking for something clean.
“Isn’t she early?”
“Only by a week. The doctor said it was fine.”
I find a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and try to put them on while still talking on the phone. “Okay, well I’ll be there as soon as I can. I think Summer is around.”