About Last Summer by Patricia B Tighe

Author:Patricia B Tighe [Tighe, Patricia B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946700100
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Gabby

After lunch, I pulled Kenzie aside. “We need to talk,” I whispered.

Kenzie frowned but then abruptly came to a decision. “Let’s walk,” she whispered and headed for the back door.

I hurried after her. We were outside and down the back steps before I had a chance to speak again. “Hang on. I’m only wearing flip-flops. Where are we going?”

Kenzie slowed her pace. “Just inside the line of trees. I have to get away from the house.”

“Okay.”

We crossed the yard and wandered into the shadows of the trees, where the chattering birds instantly hushed. Kenzie stopped, looked around, and then sagged against a tree trunk. “I’m not sure I can do this,” she said in a low voice.

“What?” I asked.

“Be around Dylan. It was different when he was supposed to get here Friday or Saturday. I could’ve dealt with that. We leave on Sunday after all. But now Geoff goes and invites him to come up early—”

“It’s only one extra day, Kenz.”

“I know. But it feels way longer.”

“I thought he was just a middle school boyfriend. What’s the big deal?”

Kenzie massaged the back of her neck and then started pacing. “You really want to know?”

I pushed out a puff of air. “Of course I do!”

“All right. We met out here when we were little kids, but it was when I was twelve, and he was thirteen that we became girlfriend and boyfriend.”

I wanted to say I already knew that part, but the look of fierce concentration on Kenzie’s face stopped me.

“We walked around holding hands like a couple of idiots,” she continued. “And then when the week was over, everything else was over too. I had a huge crush on him, so you can imagine how I felt. Or how I acted when I got home.”

“You wanted to stand by his locker every morning.”

Kenzie let out a desperate-sounding laugh. “Right. I wrote his name inside all my notebooks. I asked my parents when we would see his family again, and I compared every boy in school to him.” She picked up a twig and trailed it across the trees as she paced. “I didn’t hear from him at all. Not until we were here again when I was fifteen. Everything picked up as though we’d never been apart. That week we made out. A lot.”

“I can’t believe you never told me about him.”

“Yeah, sorry. There was something unreal about the whole thing. I guess because it only came to life when we were here in New Mexico. He wanted us to date, which was ridiculous because he lives in Dallas. So I said no. He said he loved me and always would.”

My thoughts raced to Noah. The situations were so similar. Except, of course, that Kenzie had talked to Dylan, whereas I had just dumped Noah. “Wow.”

“Yeah. He’s always been so serious, so intense. His feelings seemed to overpower mine. Like his were so strong that I could never figure out what mine really were.”

“And now?”

“I have no idea.” She tossed the stick away.

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