Kimber by Sarah Denier

Author:Sarah Denier [Denier, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780615684567
Amazon: 0615684564
Goodreads: 16002185
Publisher: Little Bridge Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I WAKE THE next morning with a full list of things to do. It’s the only way I can insure my mind stays busy and off of certain people. By that I mean just the one, starting with the letter L followed by EO.

First I call the hospital. From the sound in the background, the hospital is buzzing with commotion. Busy Monday I guess. I tell the nurse I’m Luke’s sister and learn that there has been no change in his condition. On a positive note, the sheer fact that he made it through the night is a good sign. I request to be informed upon any change good or bad. Second, I plan a much needed shopping list. It’s a pathetic attempt. I must be the only girl who has to make a lame to do list in order to forget about a guy who I’ve legitimately forgotten once already.

I text Amber telling her I need to meet up, apologize and reorganize my brain. Forty minutes later I’m outside Amber’s house beeping the horn.

Like me, Amber comes from a broken home. The only difference is that she was raised by her father. Her mom walked out on her when she was little, favoring her pill addiction over her family. Amber’s dad, Edward Dawson, or Mr. Dawson as I call him, is what I expected my father would have been like. Respectable, reasonable and wrapped around his daughters little finger. He’d never have to worry about Amber though. She’s as smart as she is blond. Her personality is the kind that lights up dark rooms.

Amber comes out of the house in a military green romper with a chunky brown belt and nude wedge sandals. Always fashionable. Compared to my, I’m confused but it’s complicated, look. Tattered jean shorts and purple Rocky Mountain tee my mother got me from North Carolina. At least I feel as horrible as I look.

We drive downtown to Dills. It’s a simple little hole in the wall lunch spot. They have the best broccoli and cheese soup served in a sour dough bread bowl. We grab a table outside on the sidewalk.

“Ok, so I’m so very, very, very sorry I took off and left Miami.”

“Why did you just take off?”

“Luke and I had a fight.” Amber eyes me. “Ok, a big, nasty, word calling, fight. And I might have slapped him.”

Her eyebrows rise in disbelief before she retains her composer. “You ditched me.”

“Then I ran into someone.”

“Leo?”

“Yeah.”

“The guy you can’t remember?”

“Yes. The problem is, he’s all over the place. Hot, cold. Up, down. And hey, how come you remember him and I don’t?”

“Luke was talking about it. All Leo this and Leo that, the whole way back. The name finally triggered something and boom!”

“Why can’t that happen for me?”

“I don’t know, but it’s weird. Like everything about him was erased.”

“Exactly! Anyway, there’s something about him, I think…I know I still care about him. But he’s all, misleading. It’s like he can’t get far enough away while leaving a bread trail behind him.

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