Love Surfaced by Michelle Lynn

Author:Michelle Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: March Release, Romance, New Adult
Publisher: Michelle Lynn
Published: 2015-03-28T23:00:00+00:00

thirteen

CURTIS AND I SIT BY the pool, our feet mindlessly swishing the water back and forth. The guilt eats me up about the lie I told him about Tanner and me. Maybe my confession of a previous relationship with Tanner wouldn’t have bothered him. He’s not a self-conscious person, and he definitely has self-esteem—maybe too much at times.

“How’s the internship going?” I ask. I allow his foot to mingle with mine, but it leaves no goose bumps rushing up my spine.

“It’s good. Dad is . . . you know.” He shrugs his shoulder.

Truth is, I don’t. I met Curtis’s dad once, passing him in the hallway of the office. He barely acknowledged me, except for squeezing my hand so hard that I thought blood was going to burst out. I doubt he remembers my name or anything else about me. From what Curtis says, his dad’s a workaholic to the top degree. He’s never home, always at the office or in court. When he isn’t, he can be found at the corner bar with his partners or high-profile clients.

“You positive law is what you want?” I’ve asked this exact question to Curtis other times because he’s beyond unhappy too often.

“It’s the family business. Not to mention, I’ll have security, and we’ll never want for anything.”

He knocks shoulders with me, and I hesitate to find my voice. Curtis constantly throws hints out about marriage, making me think the firm has some kind of contract stipulation about getting married before joining the firm. It’s an absurd thought. I guess the book Marry Me for Money by Mia Kayla that I read last week stuck with me.

“Happiness is important, too.”

I stare out at the calm water of my parents’ pool, remembering all the laughs and jokes the three of us have made here. The annoying middle school stage when Brad and Tanner made fun of my friends and me only because they were curious about girls. There was my first kiss during a game of Marco Polo when Vinny Montaldo surprised me in the corner of the pool.

“It is.” Curtis leans over and lowers his voice. “But you can’t survive on happiness. Plus, when you have as much money as we’ll have, it’s guaranteed that we’ll be happy.”

I release a breath when he moves back over to his own space and out of mine. Tanner’s been here less than twenty-four hours and already I can’t stop comparing him to Curtis.

“There is a phrase about that . . . money doesn’t buy happiness,” I mock him because he’s ignorant and I’m annoyed.

The kids I teach at the community college struggle to make themselves better and to get an opportunity to become more. Then, there are people like Curtis who went to an Ivy League college and haven’t held a real job ever. For my students, money would buy them happiness because they strive and earn what they achieve, but for Curtis, the same phrase doesn’t hold true. Trust fund babies like Curtis, will never fully appreciate the money they have because they’ll never have enough.

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