Friends With Boundaries by Brooke Kane

Author:Brooke Kane [Kane, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Present Day

It's late in the morning and I'm still in bed. The mountain of pillows my mom gave me is surrounding me, I’m burrowed deep in the blankets. I've been looking at our moms' blog for hours. I just want to lay here for a while longer. I’m not ready to face the day, or the people downstairs. They’ll all be leaving for beach day soon, and I’ll have the house to myself. My stomach growls, and I promise it some food as soon as the house is empty. The door to the bathroom swings open.

"Are you ready to go? Everyone's packing up the cars." Carter leans in the doorway dressed for the beach. I don't look up from my phone.

"I'm not going." He pushes off of the door frame and walks over to my bed.

"What do you mean you're not going? You love beach day." I still don't look up.

"I love many things. Right now, I love this bed, and not leaving it." Carter flops onto my bed. "Carter! Boundaries!" I push at him, but he doesn’t budge. He rolls over to me and puts his head on my shoulder.

"Maddie."

"What?"

"You're avoiding." I keep scrolling through my phone, but I’m not looking at what’s on the screen anymore.

"Right now I'm avoiding leaving this bed."

“Are you fused to the bed?”

“I might be.”

"It’s beach day."

"I don't want to go."

"You don't want to see Arthur, and have what is probably a difficult conversation with him." Yes, that is exactly right, so please leave so I can avoid all of that.

"Enjoy your beach day, Carter." And because I really want one, I add. "Bring me back a pretzel." They have these amazing pretzels the size of a pizza pan with several sauces to choose from.

"Nope, no pretzel."

"What do you mean no pretzel? I've brought you back one before."

"I was sick. Are you sick?"

"I'm sick of something," I grumble. Him.

He reaches over and feels my forehead. "Nope, no signs of illness. No pretzel."

"Audrey will bring me one." I can just bypass him and go straight to her.

"If anyone attempts to bring you a pretzel, I will throw it out the car window on the ride home."

"You wouldn't." He makes a throwing motion.

"Right into the bay." I glare at him. "Whereupon the seagulls will descend upon it and tear it apart."

"Whereupon?"

"You heard me, Maddie cakes." He pats me on the leg. "The only way a pretzel is getting into that stomach is if you get it yourself." He pushes off the bed and walks towards my dresser.

"Let's see if we can find you some long sleeved one piece to frump around the beach in." He starts opening drawers and digging through my clothes.

"Boundaries, Carter!"

"They're just clothes."

"And your fingers are all up in them." He grabs my bikini and tosses it directly in my face.

"You women like bathrobes or something over your swim trunks right?"

"They're not swim trunks when it's a girl." I’m trying not to laugh, because I know he’s doing this on purpose. Carter thinks he’s a full comedian sometimes and I’m not trying to feed that ego.

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