A Grateful Kind of Love by Ellie Wade

Author:Ellie Wade [Wade, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Ellie Wade
Published: 2019-09-14T05:00:00+00:00

Amy

My parents.

My sisters.

Confidence-building black sweater.

I open my dorm room door and am surprised to find my sister Lily on the other side.

“Surprise!” she squeals and pulls me into a hug.

“Hi! Oh my gosh. What are you doing here? I thought Mom was picking me up,” I say as I hug her tightly, so happy to see her.

“She was going to, but she forgot that she’d signed up to make all of this food for Keeley’s classroom’s holiday party tomorrow. You know Mom; she’s not the out-of-the-box kind of girl. She’s at home, making everything from scratch.”

“I’m really surprised she let you drive up here by yourself.”

Lily just turned sixteen a few months ago. It’s only about an hour and a half drive from our house to Ann Arbor, but our parents didn’t let me drive more than a ten-minute distance my whole first year of driving.

“They didn’t. They made Jax come with me. He’s out in the car because we’re totally illegally parked. There’s no parking around here.”

“I know, which is exactly why I decided to leave my car home this semester.” I grab my bag and lock the door before following Lily down the hall. “They do realize that Jax is also just sixteen?”

She laughs. “I know. But they trust him.”

I hop in the passenger seat of my mom’s SUV.

“Hey, Ames!” Jax greets me.

“Hey!” I say with as much gusto as I can muster, but the truth is, seeing Jax makes me think of Landon. They are similar in appearance.

Lily hops in the backseat, and Jax pulls out into Ann Arbor traffic.

“How was your first semester?” he asks.

“It was great,” I lie.

“I’m surprised you didn’t hitch a ride home with Landon,” he says casually.

I haven’t seen Landon in over a month—well, technically. I saw him walking across campus once, but I turned the corner before we met on the sidewalk.

Honestly, I’m still in a funk. It’s a struggle every day just to function. I hate it. I’m taking anti-depression meds, which are definitely helping, but it’s still been rough. I stayed home for a few weeks at the beginning of November to see my doctor and try to get my meds right and to have a handful of sessions with a therapist. My professors were all very understanding and allowed me to do much of my work at home.

I just wish the loss of the baby and Landon didn’t affect me as much as it does. I’m still not in a good place, but I’m a great actress, and the only people who really know my true heart are Sebastian and Mom.

When I came back to school after my mental health hiatus at home, I met with Landon and told him that I needed to focus on myself and school, which was the truth, but not seeing him every day is hard.

“Yeah, um,” I answer Jax, “I finished my classwork a couple of days early and wanted to go home. I haven’t been home in so long. I didn’t want to wait for Landon to finish.

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