Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares

Author:Ann Brashares [Brashares, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780440239833
Publisher: Dell Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

"And what will you do?" she asked, her voice hardly above a whisper.

She could practically see the opposing forces duking it out in his head. She wasn't sure which side was winning or even which side she was rooting for.

A weariness came into his eyes, giving her a clue. "We'll kiss, because it's my thirtieth birthday and it's what I've been wishing for. And then I'll walk you to your cabin and say goodnight."

"Okay," she said, happy and sad.

He did kiss her. He rolled her over onto the grass and kissed her passionately. His hands reached under her shirt to press against her naked back. She felt the strength of his longing and it made her woozy.

She sat up before they could be sucked into the next phase of what he wanted.

They held hands on the way back to camp. He kissed her on the cheek at the entrance to her cabin.

"You better get out of here before this thing goes the other way," he whispered in her ear. "You know, the rollingdownthe-hill way."

She nodded against his cheek. "Happy birthday, mister," she said out of the side of her mouth as if she were Mae West. And so she lay on her crappy metal cot in a cloud of desire. But even in her cloud she perceived a buffeting sensation, a brooding feeling of discomfort beneath her.

They had withstood this night for the most part, but what about the next one and the one after that?

She had the taste of him now. She had the feel of his 198 body. They had said things you couldn't forget and couldn't take back. All the ordinary boundaries between them lay in ruins. What was going to keep them apart now? She feared they had both seen the place where they could have turned back and, knowingly, they had passed it by.

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Leo looked surprised to see Lena at the door of his loft on Sunday morning. She was surprised to be there.

"I wasn't sure you'd come," he said. "I wasn't either."

"I'm glad you did," he added. He did look happy, and also uncertain. He was looking at her in a different way. "I'm nervous," she said honestly. "But fair is fair."

His eyes on her were different. She couldn't say why. "You are fair," he said. "But you don't have to do it." She smiled nervously. "Thanks."

"Do you want a cup of coffee?"

"Sure." She considered the state of her nervous system. "Maybe tea," she mumbled, following him into the kitchen.

He put the kettle on and sat down. Northern lightartists' light?fell all around them from the high windows. "Where's your mom?" Lena asked.

"She volunteers all day at our church," Leo said. "I thought the privacy might make it easier."

She nodded.

"But I understand if you don't want to." "Okay."

She sat and thought.

He looked at her, his elbow resting on the table, his chin in his hand.

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