Lost in the Moment (A Savioe Family Novel) by Ginny Atkinson Page B

snapped shut and my fist clenched under the table. “My aunt has custody of me.”
    “How old are you?” He leaned back in his chair and gaged my response.
    “Seventeen. Until February.”
    “And you are a junior?” He rested his elbow on the arm of his chair and leaned his chin on his hand.
    “Yes, sir.”
    “What do you plan to do with your life after you graduate?”
    “I honestly don’t know. I would love to go back to England and visit someday. As far as a career? I am completely undecided.” I took a drink of water and placed my glass back on the table when Marie reached over and grabbed my hand under the table to give it a reassuring squeeze.
    “So you plan on applying for citizenship?”
    “ I have dual citizenship thanks to my mother.”
    “ She was related to the woman that currently has legal guardianship of you?”
    I slowly nodded my head. “Yes, sir.”
    “What are your intentions toward Marie?” Eva asked after wiping her mouth with her napkin.
    “I’d like to get to know her to see if her personality is equal to or surpasses her beauty.” I looked over to Marie whose cheeks had turned a very deep shade of red.
    Her father cleared his throat to get my attention. I looked over to him frowning at me. “You said yesterday that your parents had passed. What happened to them?”
    My face dropped. The memories of that day came crashing back. My aunt and uncle were visiting us that week. I had just come down with a stomach flu the morning of the accident. My aunt decided to stay with me and insisted that my parents and brother go on with their plans for the day. A few hours later after my stomach settled down, we were notified that their Discovery 67 yacht had exploded and the only survivor was my uncle.
    I coughed to try to dislodge the lump in my throat. “They were killed in a boating explosion along with my little brother.”
    “Nate , enough.” Eva glared over the table at him.
    “It’s alright, Eva. I understand his need to find out more information about the guy interested in his daughter.” I looked directly at Nate. “But I will refrain from speaking more about my family. I’m sure you can find out the information online. I do remember the papers covering it for few weeks.”
    Charles bit his lip to keep from snickering. Everyone turned to look at him. His body shook with his contained laughter as his face turned purple from holding his breath. “Out with it, Boo. What is so funny?” Eva chastised him.
    “Dev go ahead and ask Marie what you did me.” Charles guffawed.
    Dev, the shy one, frowned at Charles and placed his fork down. “Does this mean you could be pregnant too and will have to get married like Luke and Roxy?”
    Beau snickered behind his hand, Luke spit out his drink, Marie turned a deep shade of scarlet and Eva gasped her hand flying to her throat. Nate sat at the head of the table stunned speechless. Dev looked around the table awaiting the answer from any one willing to offer it to him.
    I carefully set my glass back on the table and shook my head no. “What makes you ask that?”
    “Well the only time we’ve met anyone that one of those four dated was Roxy. And she might be…. Remi what did they call it?”
    “Knocked up but Charles says that means she might have a baby in her belly.” Remi nodded his head matter of factly and took another bit e from his fork.
    “Yeah, knocked up and Luke will have to marry her. So we thought that if we get to meet someone they date that they’ll be knocked up and have to get married.”
    “Your sister is not pregnant and does not have to get married to me.” I leaned a little over the table to whisper to him. “To be honest, I don’t think I’m good enough for her.”
    Remi mumbled under his breath at me. “That’s true.”
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    Marie
    After the fiasco that was dinner, I walked Drez out to his car.