Dog Days 01 - Autumn by Sierra Dean

Author:Sierra Dean [Dean, Sierra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781939291004
Publisher: Sierra Dean
Published: 2013-06-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

If someone had told Cooper a month earlier he’d be lying in his truck bed on a blanket, listening to baseball with a totally adorable girl, he’d have called that person a liar.

Had that same person told him they’d be sharing an awkward silence and not looking at each other, he’d be a bit more willing to listen. Awkward might as well replace Eugene as his middle name.

He wanted to know what the deal was between his family and Lou’s. His mother and Elle Whittaker had never been best buddies, but he hadn’t thought there was more to it than that. When people told Lou to steer clear of him, he’d assumed they were looking out for her new social standing, nothing more.

It wasn’t until his mother told him in no uncertain terms that he was forbidden to spend time with Lou that he started thinking there might be more to it than he’d originally suspected.

He had to figure out what was going on, but in a way that would keep his secret protected. Lou was clever and had a level head on her shoulders, but he couldn’t exactly say, “My brother turned into a coyote, and on my eighteenth birthday, I will too. What do you have to do with that?”

There was no evidence Lou had anything to do with it, so to spill the beans seemed reckless. Unless she did something to prove she needed to know, he wasn’t going to tell her anything.

But they still had a weird Hatfields vs. McCoys thing going on with their families, and since neither side was interested in sharing details, they needed to figure it out for themselves.

During a lull in the bottom of the fourth inning, Cooper finally broke the ice. “What did your grandmother tell you when she said you shouldn’t hang out with me?”

She sat up, resting on her elbows, and looked at him. “Pretty much the same thing everyone else in town said. You’re bad news. I think she implied that Reynolds men had a bad habit of bailing and you wouldn’t be any different.”

Cooper covered his eyes so he could glance at her without being blinded. She had no idea how right she was. “I guess that’s true.”

“What, that you’ll run away?”

He shrugged. “That men in my family have a history of doing that.” It didn’t matter than most of them ran away on four legs instead of two. The truth didn’t need to be so well defined.

Of course, his dad had left for more old-fashioned reasons. Nothing turned him furry, but he sure had run off with his tail between his legs.

“What I don’t get is what your mom could possibly have against me.” Lou sounded more hurt than she was offended. “I’ve never even met her. And I’ve only been in town for like two weeks. I haven’t exactly been stirring up trouble in all that time.”

Cooper sat up and crossed his legs, turning to face her. “She got weird about your last name.

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