99 Days by Cotugno Katie

Author:Cotugno,Katie
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Balzer + Bray

It’s hotter than I realize, and when I wake up on Imogen’s flowered sheet sometime later the first thing I register is the red roasting sensation all up and down the skin of my arms and legs, on the tops of my feet and the bridge of my nose around my sunglasses.

The second thing I register is Patrick.

“Mols,” he says, looming above me, so his face is all in shadow, nudging my hip with his ankle until I startle. I sit up fast and disoriented. Everything stings.

“Did you just wake me up?” I ask stupidly. I’ve been avoiding him on purpose since we got here, trying to give him and Tess their space. Not that they need my help, really—after they got here they spent most of last night sitting on a huge rock near the water, heads tipped close together, telling secrets I couldn’t even begin to guess. I’d taken the beers Gabe offered and sat with everyone else around the fire. Tried not to feel jealous about that. “Where is everybody?”

“You’re frying,” Patrick tells me now, not particularly friendly. “Come on, you gotta put sunblock on, get in the shade or something.”

“Oh,” I say, disoriented, that underwater nap feeling where you’re groggier after than you ever were before. I’m eye level with his knees, ripped denim he’s had for as long as I can remember and a swatch of tan skin showing through. It occurs to me to wonder how long he’s been standing there, and what went through his mind while he did. I’m sorry about earlier, I want to tell him. Gabe was being a jerk, and I’m sorry. “Okay.”

“Here,” Patrick says, thrusting a bottle of Coppertone in my general direction, the callused pads of his fingers brushing mine. By the time I get it together enough to look up and say thanks, he’s already gone.

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