Breaking the Rules: The Honeybees, book 1 by Archer Amy

Author:Archer, Amy [Archer, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-11T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

When my alarm clock went off the next morning, I dragged my eyelids open and stared up at the big, dark windows of my bedroom. I always slept with the curtains open so that the sun would wake me up in the morning, but now that I was marathon training and waking up early most mornings to run before work, my wakeup time happened before the sun’s.

“No,” I groaned in the general direction of my alarm clock, reaching out to swat at the snooze button. Instead, I missed, and the clock crashed to the floor. Taco yipped in excitement.

I’d gone to three different stores the night before looking for popsicle sticks for the art project I was doing with my students. Right around the time I started wondering about buying several boxes of popsicles and pulling out the sticks, I’d finally found some—but I was cursing myself for letting my guard down and staying out so late with Devin.

Then, of course, I’d gotten home and been unable to sleep. My mind swirled with thoughts of him, memories of sinking into his lips out on the cool sand of the beach while the sun disappeared behind the horizon. Lying in my bed well past my normal bedtime, I’d wondered: is he thinking of me right now too? Or is he sleeping soundly?

And, furthermore, what did it all mean?

I didn’t know whether anything more would happen with Devin—whether our kiss had meant as much to him as it had, whether I wanted it to or not, to me.

I pulled myself out of bed and righted the spurned alarm clock, shutting off its horrible beeping and rubbing at my tired eyes. No matter what had happened with Devin the previous night, I was not going to lose sight of my goals. It was time for a training run. Nothing was more important than the marathon.

I snapped Taco’s leash to him while he bounced around in anticipation of our outing. Outside in the first dim wisps of morning light, I shivered. The fog had come in overnight, and it was chillier than it had been the night before. Or had I just not noticed? I remembered the goosebumps up and down my arms that had prompted Devin to loan me his hoodie.

My body protesting, I started to put one foot in front of the other, slowly at first and then faster and faster. But my body felt sluggish, exhausted.

I paused for breath only five minutes in, and then again a few minutes later. How could I have done this to myself? Sure, it was only one night, but if I was letting myself lose track of time and lose track of my obligations when I was with Devin, what else would slip?

With difficulty, Taco and I finished up our normal route and arrived back at my front door, feeling a mix of fear, anxiety, and excitement. I hadn’t stopped thinking about Devin once during the run—the way his hoodie smelled like him, the

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