Held: A New Adult Romance by Pine Jessica

Author:Pine, Jessica [Pine, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna Roberts
Published: 2013-12-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Jaime

I used to think it would be nice to have Amber's kind of problems. No worrying about money, no worrying about whether the school district where your nephew is growing up will still be a good one when he's old enough to enroll. Rich people. Famous people. They're all a bunch of big crybabies, right? It's so difficult having money and fame and a house in the Hills and a pony for every day of the week. We love to hate them for complaining - that was the whole principle behind those dumb Paris and Nicole shows when I was a kid. Remember them? Hard to believe they were even a thing.

But the more time I spend with Amber the more I realize I would pay actual cash money if there was some guarantee that I'd never get fucked up the way she's been fucked up.

There's a time in a boy's life when girls go from being 'just girls' to these magical, sophisticated, unattainable beings. It starts, weirdly enough, round about the time when they're about twelve or thirteen, when they're done streaking skyward like beanpoles and start filling out. Sometimes it's like it happens overnight. One day she's a person you could borrow a pencil from without blushing and the next day when she walks into class it's like she exploded overnight - pow! Beauty. Holy shit - where the hell did they come from?

They leave us guys in the dust. We're the poor pendejos nature has left lagging a couple of years behind in terms of maturity. We can only gawp and yearn while they giggle at the guys two grades above, huge hairy monsters whose voices have stopped wobbling, guys who have actual muscles.

Then a weird thing happens when you get older. Those beautiful girls, and the older guys they went out with? They turn into children. They shrink before your very eyes as you grow upwards, and then the next beautiful girl you see might be your friend's little sister, or your own niece, and when you see her fluttering her eyelashes at older men your heart starts thumping for all kinds of different reasons. No - don't you dare smile back at her; she's only fifteen.

Amber is a little like that. She flirts hard but I don't think she really knows what she's doing. She's a kid - I have to think of her that way, even if she's only two years younger than me. It's the only way I can protect her like I'm supposed to.

After dinner she goes out to fetch wood, which is not a euphemism no matter how much she wants it to be. To my surprise she builds a decent fire that catches almost immediately.

"Were you a Girl Scout?" I ask.

She sits back on her heels. "Nope," she says. "Arsonist."

Her expression is solemn and it's only when she glimpses genuine fear in my eyes that she laughs.

"That's not funny," I say.

"Shut up. It's hilarious."

"It isn't. I don't know what's going on with you.

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