A Bad Boy For Summer by Blake Joanna

Author:Blake, Joanna [Blake, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-06T07:00:00+00:00

Please

Then I drank myself into oblivion.

Frannie

I stared at my phone. He was texting me again. It had been five days since I saw him.

Jace had texted me every day since then. Multiple times.

I was starting to think he was telling me the truth.

About the girl at least. I still wasn’t sure about the rest of it. Mostly the part about him wanting me. For real.

But I couldn’t dispute the facts”

He hadn’t been faking it when he kissed me.

He hadn’t seemed interested in Shannon at the track.

But none of that mattered.

My Gran was dying.

Gran was the only person who’d ever really loved me. Well, except Nev and her mom. And Clay treated me like an older brother now. But Gran was… she was everything.

I stretched my legs, wandering around Gran’s room at the nursing home. The steady beeping of the breathing equipment and heart monitors were the only sounds. It was so sad… that she had to be here and not home.

Home.

That was a joke.

Home was never a safe haven. Not since Gran had started losing her memory. My parents had shipped her off to this place without missing a beat.

‘Home’ was where I got yelled at. Criticized. Ignored.

For most of my life, I’d felt like a ghost, There, but not. Not counting. Not important.

Not loved.

It was sad but I’d almost thought I’d felt a little bit of that with Jace. I was an idiot obviously. Hot guys like that didn’t like girls like me.

Chubby, bookish, quiet girls like me.

But... He had seemed to like me. More than a little bit. A lot.

I sighed and got some lotion to rub on the thin skin on Gran’s hands. She’d always been so proud of her hands. They were beautiful even now, with long tapered fingers and pretty oval shaped nails.

“Frannie?”

I turned to see Nevada standing in the doorway. My face crumpled as all the tears I’d been holding back started to fall. She was across the room and pulling me into her arms in two seconds flat.

“Oh honey. I’m so sorry.”

“Thank you for coming.”

“Don’t be silly. How is she doing?”

“They said she might pull through. I don’t know. She looks so frail…”

She leaned back, staring at me.

“Well, you look exhausted. How long have you been in here?”

I shrugged. I hadn’t left the room since I got here late last night.

“And I bet you drove all night.”

She tsk’d when I nodded. Then she hooked her arm into mine.

“Come on, we are getting you something to eat and some fresh air. Gran will be okay for a few minutes alone.”

I followed her meekly out of the nursing home. The sun hurt my eyes and I squinted. Nev handed me a pair of expensive looking sunglasses from her bag. I slid them on gratefully.

This was the town we’d grown up in and I didn’t want to run into anyone.

“Sammies?”

I nodded and Nevada took my arm again, propelling me down the side walk. I felt numb, like a robot. I said a quick thank you to God for my friend.

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