Page 14 of A Home for Harmony

Yeah, that sounded really mature!

Even if it was the truth.

It’s not as if they asked to live here for free, but her father said the house was just sitting empty. Theo didn’t pay for anything more than utilities and taxes when he lived here.

Well, she and Erica split that, so it wasn’t really free, just rent free.

She shook her arms out, did a little butt wiggle, and then let out a breath.

“I will not have a pity party. I’m the happy, carefree one of the family. I’m going to make the best of my first Christmas Eve alone. Starting with dinner.”

She pulled out all the takeout menus, spread them on the counter upside down, and shifted them all over the place. Erica would shudder over choosing dinner this way, but Harmony was more easygoing about things.

This was fun. Things she did with friends in the past.

Just because she was alone didn’t mean she couldn’t do it.

She closed her eyes, spun herself in a circle, slapped her hand down and lifted a sheet up in triumph.

Normally she and a friend would shout out, guessing about what she had. She’d pass on that tonight and flipped it over.

“Chinese food it is,” she said. “Yum.”

Now she had to figure out what to get on the menu.

To continue with the fun, she pulled up a randomizer app on her phone that she used for giveaways, put in the numbers of the meals she liked, then hit spin.

“Looks like dinner has been chosen,” she said.

Since she got her car back two days ago, she’d take it for a drive again to pick up dinner.

The restaurant told her she had twenty minutes before it would be ready and it was ten minutes away.

After the last time she went out to run errands and got stuck on the side of the road in her leggings, she was going to be more prepared this time.

If the sexy Micah Barnes popped into her head, it was only to be expected.

She had spent a few days searching for him on social media.

He had no accounts and that did not surprise her. He didn’t seem the type.

But she had found out some things about his career and read everything she could.

No clue if he was single or not, and she wasn’t sure why she needed to know that.

She ran to her room and changed out of her sweats and put a pair of stretch jeans on. Her purple cotton shirt from one of her sponsors was fine to keep on, then she grabbed socks from another sponsor and pulled on her black UGG boots.

She even grabbed her winter jacket when she was walking out the door and flung her floral purse from Blossoms across her chest as she had a pep in her step.

Harmony interacted and communicated with people nonstop all day long. Just because they weren’t in her presence didn’t mean it was a bad thing. It was just getting used to this new life here with less to do.

When she was driving into town, she had a moment of panic that it was dark out and if her car died again, she’d be a sitting duck.

She’d never felt so paranoid before and had to get it out of her mind.

There was no reason to be scared that someone was sending her emails and DMs saying they missed her. That they wanted to know why she wasn’t posting as much or they didn’t see her around New York City anymore.

There was nothing threatening there, just creepy.