Your Love Came Late, I Chose Another novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Tent
"Presented by Brandon Kearney," Bree read out loud again. "He can't present a grilled cheese."
"His father's making him," Ronan said. "He wants his son's face on it when it sells."
I read the line three times.
Then I closed the laptop and went to the back to toast more coconut.
Saturday, July eighteenth, Marion Square was packed by ten in the morning.
White tents in rows across the grass.
Smoke from the barbecue pits. A brass band somewhere. Kids with snow cones melting down their wrists.
The main stage tent sat at the north end, under the old oaks, with a long judging table and three judges in linen.
There were folding chairs for two hundred people.
By eleven, they were full, and people were standing three deep around the edges.
The city paper had a photographer.
Two local news stations had cameras on tripods.
I stood behind table eleven in my whites, with Bree on one side and Ronan on the other.
In front of me sat one seven-layer coconut cake on my grandmother's old milk-glass stand.
Next to it, my grandmother's red rooster tin.
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