Mina turned her head to look out the window.
Arianna closed her eyes. How embarrassing. She opened her mouth to say something, but Trevor spoke first.
“Ouch.” Trevor glanced over at her.
She averted her eyes. “She’s not all together wrong.”
Trevor glanced in the rear view mirror at Mina and then looked over at Arianna. “I can guarantee if you and I ever break up, it will have nothing to do with your daughter.”
“What?” Arianna stared at him. Was he serious?
He took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. “I’m not going to leave you, just because you have a daughter.”
She took a deep breath, a tear crept into the corner of her eye, and she smiled. “Thank you.” Perhaps there were good guys out there after all.
*****
March 30th
The days passed slowly for Arianna. Her patience for the other mothers was getting slim.
She sat high in the bleachers and pulled out her phone. Clicking the Facebook app, she logged in. The friend request button was red. She clicked to see Trevor added her.
Arianna smiled and approved the request. She clicked on his name and scanned his page.
His relationship status changed to it’s complicated. She chuckled and sent him a message.
A: Why is your relationship ‘it’s complicated’?”
T: Because we’re still not telling my family.
A: Come on it, can’t be that bad.
Arianna looked around the room two of the mothers looked backed at her. One of them laughed. She glanced back down at her phone.
T: Did you check out the comments under my relationship status?
A: Checking.
She clicked on the status and saw there were five comments.
Julian: It’s complicated? Is that your way of coming out?
Drew: No, it means he’s met someone and doesn’t want to tell us about her.
Julian: Why are you afraid we’ll steal her from you?
Julian: You do realize I have a girlfriend, right?
Drew: I think it’s funny he’s been home for two weeks, hasn’t set foot in Mom and Dad’s house, but has a girlfriend.
Arianna laughed.
A: I guess your brothers can be a handful.
T: It only gets worse from there. Those are the twins, by the way.
A: For the moment, it’s complicated does work for our relationship.
T: If it weren’t for my family insisting on meeting you and dragging me to Sunday brunch. I’d change it to in a relationship and tag you.
A: One of these days I’m going to talk you into going to Sunday brunch.
T: I have a better idea, I’ll change my relationship status and then send you and Mina to Sunday brunch. They’ll be so excited to find out about you and Mina, they won’t even know I’m not there. I was invisible half the time growing up anyway.
A: Not a chance!
T: It was worth a try.
A: Are you still planning on coming to Omaha?
T: I talked to my friend, we’re supposed to meet Saturday morning.
A: Cool, we’re leaving Saturday night. I wanted to give Mina a day at home to get back into things before she had to go back to school.
T: Give me your flight information and I’ll make sure I get on the same plane at least.
A: No problem.
Mina came up the bleachers and plopped down beside her. “It’s time for lunch.”
Arianna sent Trevor a final message.
A: Gotta go, kid thinks she needs to eat.
T: How awful? Must suck being a parent. LOL. Later.
A: Later.
Chapter Five
April 7th
Arianna unlocked the house. “I’m almost done, I just have a few more things to pack up.”
Trevor shadowed her inside. “So this is where you grew up?”
She walked over to a radio and turned it on, leaving it play softly in the background. “From the time I was fifteen until well into college.” Arianna glanced around she picked up a box and started to take pictures off the wall. She held one up. “This is Scott and his parents. It’s the last picture they took before he died.”
Scott was dressed in a blue football jersey. He had ginger colored hair a bit of a goofy looking smile.
“Mina took after you.”
“You
Arianna closed her eyes. How embarrassing. She opened her mouth to say something, but Trevor spoke first.
“Ouch.” Trevor glanced over at her.
She averted her eyes. “She’s not all together wrong.”
Trevor glanced in the rear view mirror at Mina and then looked over at Arianna. “I can guarantee if you and I ever break up, it will have nothing to do with your daughter.”
“What?” Arianna stared at him. Was he serious?
He took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. “I’m not going to leave you, just because you have a daughter.”
She took a deep breath, a tear crept into the corner of her eye, and she smiled. “Thank you.” Perhaps there were good guys out there after all.
*****
March 30th
The days passed slowly for Arianna. Her patience for the other mothers was getting slim.
She sat high in the bleachers and pulled out her phone. Clicking the Facebook app, she logged in. The friend request button was red. She clicked to see Trevor added her.
Arianna smiled and approved the request. She clicked on his name and scanned his page.
His relationship status changed to it’s complicated. She chuckled and sent him a message.
A: Why is your relationship ‘it’s complicated’?”
T: Because we’re still not telling my family.
A: Come on it, can’t be that bad.
Arianna looked around the room two of the mothers looked backed at her. One of them laughed. She glanced back down at her phone.
T: Did you check out the comments under my relationship status?
A: Checking.
She clicked on the status and saw there were five comments.
Julian: It’s complicated? Is that your way of coming out?
Drew: No, it means he’s met someone and doesn’t want to tell us about her.
Julian: Why are you afraid we’ll steal her from you?
Julian: You do realize I have a girlfriend, right?
Drew: I think it’s funny he’s been home for two weeks, hasn’t set foot in Mom and Dad’s house, but has a girlfriend.
Arianna laughed.
A: I guess your brothers can be a handful.
T: It only gets worse from there. Those are the twins, by the way.
A: For the moment, it’s complicated does work for our relationship.
T: If it weren’t for my family insisting on meeting you and dragging me to Sunday brunch. I’d change it to in a relationship and tag you.
A: One of these days I’m going to talk you into going to Sunday brunch.
T: I have a better idea, I’ll change my relationship status and then send you and Mina to Sunday brunch. They’ll be so excited to find out about you and Mina, they won’t even know I’m not there. I was invisible half the time growing up anyway.
A: Not a chance!
T: It was worth a try.
A: Are you still planning on coming to Omaha?
T: I talked to my friend, we’re supposed to meet Saturday morning.
A: Cool, we’re leaving Saturday night. I wanted to give Mina a day at home to get back into things before she had to go back to school.
T: Give me your flight information and I’ll make sure I get on the same plane at least.
A: No problem.
Mina came up the bleachers and plopped down beside her. “It’s time for lunch.”
Arianna sent Trevor a final message.
A: Gotta go, kid thinks she needs to eat.
T: How awful? Must suck being a parent. LOL. Later.
A: Later.
Chapter Five
April 7th
Arianna unlocked the house. “I’m almost done, I just have a few more things to pack up.”
Trevor shadowed her inside. “So this is where you grew up?”
She walked over to a radio and turned it on, leaving it play softly in the background. “From the time I was fifteen until well into college.” Arianna glanced around she picked up a box and started to take pictures off the wall. She held one up. “This is Scott and his parents. It’s the last picture they took before he died.”
Scott was dressed in a blue football jersey. He had ginger colored hair a bit of a goofy looking smile.
“Mina took after you.”
“You
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