Crushing by Elena Dillon

Author:Elena Dillon [Dillon, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-23T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

I didn’t speak to Gage the rest of the week. Not at practice, not by text, and not at school. I was angry still. At myself and him. He gave me a wide berth, so I assumed he was still mad too. I could tell Dom was thrilled that we weren’t speaking but was smart enough to keep it to himself. My mood had been crummy all week. He had an older sister, so he had an inbred knowledge of what not to say to a girl. It was a gift. Something Gage quite obviously did not possess.

During the week we put up posters and talked to people about Lindsay. The kids in Student Leadership all went out and posted stuff all over town and some of the surrounding areas. It made me feel better to be doing something to help find her.

On Friday after school I came home and started getting ready. I took a hot shower. I tried to hold it together while I was getting dressed. What was I doing? I wasn’t this person. I was hurting people I cared about. I had hurt Gage and Dominic numerous times already by not knowing my own mind. I shouldn’t even be going out with him tonight, but I knew how much he was looking forward to it. I may have already ruined things with Gage, but I was going to do my best not to hurt Dom again. I would be my most fun self tonight on our date. Even if it killed me.

When I came downstairs, he was already in my kitchen filching the cookies my mom had left on the counter. Did he ever actually get full? I was pretty sure not.

“Seriously? I think you just come here for the food.”

“That’s the second best thing about coming here,” he said as he wiped his hands on a paper towel. There was also a picnic basket sitting on the counter with his name taped to it. Interesting.

He came over to me and pulled me into one of his bear hugs. “You are the best thing about coming here.”

He was so sweet. I put my face in his chest. I couldn’t get a deep breath. I had been on the edge of tears all week. I needed to pull it together.

I stepped back out of the hug and smiled up at him. “Okay, I’m ready whenever you are.”

He grabbed the basket, and we headed out to his truck and took off.

“Are you going to tell me where we’re going now?” We’d been driving for a bit, and I still had no clue what we were doing.

“The beach.”

“Which beach?” I was starting to get excited. I hoped we were doing what I thought we were.

“Folly.” He grinned.

“Yessss! Night surfing? I forgot it’s a full moon!” I was bouncing up and down in my seat.

“I know we usually go with the Js, but I thought it would be fun just the two of us.”

I loved night surfing. We had started going when my brothers started driving.

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