“I want to know everything about Nate. Give me all the details,” Kaitlin said with a gleam in her eyes. “Or should I ask Connor to give them to me? I believe he said he had images he’ll never forget burned into his brain.” Her sister laughed when Connor scrubbed the palms of his hands over his eyes.
The weight of their questions on her shoulders made Jade drop on a chair at the dining table. “I’m not giving you details, and Connor couldn’t have seen much because it was dark.”
“Not that dark,” he grumbled.
“Why would you do such a thing?” This from Jade’s mother who sat at the opposite side of the table, frowning.
“I was helping Nate tick off things he never got to do as a teenager.” And she got more than she bargained for.
“You did this as a teenager too?” Jade’s mother’s eyebrows disappeared into her hairline.
“Now you’ve put your foot in it.” Connor chuckled.
“Only because I was with Kaitlin and she told me to.”
Kaitlin gasped. “I only wanted to do it because I followed Connor one day and saw him with Penny from his year at school doing it and thought it looked like fun.”
“What the hell!” Connor exploded and pushed from the counter. “Why were you following me?”
“You always told us to get lost. I wanted to see what you got up to when you snuck away.”
“I told you to get lost because I didn’t want you to see what I got up to.”
Kaitlin tapped the side of her head and smiled sweetly. “Yeah. Well, I know a lot, so don’t piss me off.”
They were grown adults still squabbling like little kids. Jade watched her mother make the sign of the cross and look up at the ceiling, probably hoping for help from God for her children.
Connor shook his head. “I’m getting out of here. And you…” He pointed a finger at Jade. “Keep out of trouble. And if I find you doing something stupid like that again, I will arrest you.” With that, he stormed out of the room.
“You’d think I robbed a bank or something. Skinny-dipping isn’t that bad.”
“Where did I go wrong?” Her mother sighed.
“So…who’s this Nate guy you had sexy-time with?” Kaitlin’s eyebrows wiggled as she asked.
“I don’t think Ma wants to hear about it,” Jade said as she looked at her mother.
“I’ve heard more than I’d like to, so I might as well know who my daughter’s been fooling around with.”
“We were just swimming,” Jade lied.
Her mother arched an eyebrow. Jade mentally grimaced. It was mortifying to know her mother knew about last night.
Blowing out a long breath, she said, “As you know, his name is Nate. He’ll be teaching the kids music in our after-school program.”
After a beat Kaitlin questioned, “That’s it?”
“There’s not much to tell.”
“Oh, no way. You have got to give me more. How did you meet?”
“We met at a concert I went to with Liz.” That was close enough to the truth, only omitting a few major details.
“And…” Kaitlin prompted.
“And…he happens to be friends with Toby, and they set it up.”
Kaitlin narrowed her eyes. “How did you go from meeting at a concert to skinny-dipping?”
