Diclaimer: I hate these things! I own nothing, it is all Ann Brashares!
Lena slumped forward in her chair. She didn't understand why Carmen had made her come to this restaurant…
Didn't she know how she was feeling…?
After Kostos…
She wasn't sure that she would ever feel normal again.
Lena didn't even know what normal was… let alone did she think that she would ever experience it again…
Carmen had a boy with her. Lena had never seen him before. What was his name…? Peter? Perry? Percy? No… Porter! That was it! But it didn't really matter, though did it? If she didn't have Kostos… nothing really mattered anymore, did it?
Wait… there was someone else sitting at their table… who was he?
Lena had never even seen this boy before… was he a friend of Carmen's? Surely Lena would know him if he knew Carmen… All of the Septembers knew all of each other's friends…
So who was this…?
"Lena, this is Paul." Said Carmen as if reading her mind.
Paul…
She had heard of Paul before… Who was Paul?
Carmen had talked about Paul before… so why wouldn't Lena remember who he was… how did Carmen know him?
The wedding! That was it!
He was her stepbrother!
Lena felt like an idiot, and it showed in her eyes, even though no one else in the room could tell what she had been thinking.
She looked at Paul closer. Then he saw that she had been looking… she looked down at the marble tabletop.
She saw Carma looking at her. She raised her eyebrows. Lena didn't take her eyes off of the table.
Paul was cute…
And at that moment Lena knew that for her normal wouldn't always be the same, but she would definitely experience it again.
