Page 102 of Opposites (Never) Attract
I pulled over the chair and Amity came out from behindthe kitchen with a tray of food. Fun fact, I’d just discovered on this trip home, my sister cooked like a badass.
And not just the cowboy stuff. She worked with Asian flavors, Indian spices, along with traditional things like barbeque. All of it was amazing.
Harmony held up her phone with a picture of me sound asleep tucked against the naked chest of one Tag Durham on the screen.
“Talk,” Harmony said, and showed the picture to everyone seated at the table like she was showing state’s evidence.
“Oh, it looks like things are certainly progressing,” Mom cooed. “They’ve gone from getting air, to getting lai-”
“Mom!” I cut her off. “Do not finish that sentence. It’s innocent.”
My voice was an octave too high, which always happened when I lied. Because the truth was, nothing about what happened between me and Tag outside of last night had been innocent, but that was the story I was sticking to.
“Oh, that looks so sweet,” Amity cooed.
“Who knew Tag looked that good shirtless?” Bliss said.
I immediately grabbed the phone out of Harmony’s hand. “Stop looking at Tag like that,” I told Bliss. “Harmony, can we put this away? There’s nothing there to talk about.”
“Just a few days ago you were asking about Tag’s former girlfriends…” Harmony let her voice trail.
“I was just curious.”
“Curiosity got the cat pregnant,” Mom interjected.
“Mom,” Bliss said, throwing up her hands. “No one even knows what that means.”
“Ethan said there’s something there,” Harmony said,smugly, taking one of the sandwiches. “He thinks you like each other.”
I kicked her under the table.
“Ow!” Harmony complained. “Mom, Sunny kicked me.”
“Stop kicking your sister and tell me how you just happened to find yourself in bed with Tag.”
“I wasn’t inbedwith Tag! I mean, I was, but only because we fell asleep watching Seth on ESPN.”
“Yes, but why were you at his cabin? How did you end up in his bed in the first place?”
“Uh, well, I…there was all that extra food Amity sent over. And I was playing chess with his dad, and then Tag wanted to lay down and…he wanted company.”
Four pairs of eyes were staring me down with equal measures of incredulity.
“Stop,” I told them. “We just connected, is all. But it’s not going to amount to anything because I’m-”
“Going back to New York,” all my sisters said in unison.
“Remember the city-girl chants from the town meeting,” I reminded them. “It’s not like anyone in this town wants me to stick around.”
“But, you turned them all around on crypto currency,” Amity said. “Even Cookie has bought into it. He’s having a BBQ special at his truck this week where he’ll discount the food if you pay in bitcoin.”
“Okay, that’s not how that should work,” I tried to interject, but Amity was still talking.
“Everyone’s so excited to see what you can do.”
“That’s fine,” I told my family. “But, even if I am successful and I save the ranch, I’m still going back to-”
“New York,” my sisters and mother said in unison again.
