Lee Ann still couldn't say she was on the right track. She'd lost touch with her mother's sisters who were on the west coast. If she'd been wise, she would have gone to them, maybe. But last word she'd heard, they were will with cancer or mental problems. Hardships seemed to be their last name.
She couldn't say she was at complete rock bottom. Cole helped so much. She knew she owed him.
She was working in her sister's salon that she now owned. But it had been a devasting yet elated experience. She missed her sister and was nervous about managing a salon. There were days she stood for hours cutting hair. Lee Ann couldn't admit she was the stylest her sister had been, but she knew enough to get by.
Still, in her heart she was unsure of a lot of things, but the moments she wasn't full of anxieties she was glad to have one true friend, Cole.
Oh, she knew his brother didn't like her much and now he was seeing some redhead in the wee hours of the morning. Lee Ann wasn't so sure she wanted to live here with her little one.
"Well, he's not old enough to really know, what's going on," Cole told her it was all right. After all, she'd moved in. They needed to meet Jared halfway.
"But..but what if she's into drugs," Lee Ann shook her head. She watched the local news every night. Bad things were happening all around. People getting shot in their sleep.
"Just stop worrying," Cole's words didn't put her to ease. Sure he had his buddies. She didn't have friendships like he did.
Most she'd gone to high school with had moved away or had really great jobs. No way would she be in their circle. Still, Cole pulled her in to all the cookouts and weekend dinners with his pals.
She'd met Char that way and some girl with a baby named Sal. She could hardly say they were even acquaintances. It wasn't like she could text them on a daily basis.
Why had she wanted to grow up so soon? She thought she'd made it when she married, but that ended in divorce and she wasn't so sure she'd ever marry again. And yet she counted on Cole for so much.
And then she cut someone's hair.
"Oh, you've got a little one, too?" Soon enough, she felt connected to another young mother. They'd gone to the same high school but never knew each other and yet remembered some of the same people. Finally, Le Ann found a friend and her name was Josie.
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