Loving You Is Easy by Wendy S. Marcus

Author:Wendy S. Marcus [Marcus, Wendy S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780553391237
Google: x20OBAAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 22747255
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2014-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

She eventually accepted Shane’s invitation, swayed by his words, “We may not have forever, but we have right now,” and by the simple enjoyment of lying beside him on the blanket, both of them looking up at the sky, finding shapes in the clouds. Of playing the word association game they’d played in their letters, which was much more fun in person. Of watching him play Frisbee with Jillian. Of the three of them enjoying a mini picnic snack on a beautiful day, Shane laughing at Jillian’s silly jokes.

It all seemed so normal, such simple pleasures.

So as they were packing up to head home she’d told him yes, she’d go out on a date with him. They could be boyfriend and girlfriend for the night.

Then he’d lost his balance while trying to load the bikes into the back of his Jeep and flew into a nasty rage when Brooke tried to help him, and she’d immediately regretted her decision.

Sometimes he felt so familiar, like she’d known him for years. Other times he felt like a total stranger, a man she had no interest in knowing.

Yet both men were Shane.

The good and the bad.

Which version would show up for their date?

To keep her mind off of the potential disaster looming, after returning home from the park, Brooke kept busy all afternoon, helping Patsy do more baking for the luncheon to follow Tommy’s memorial service—while Shane had gone mysteriously absent, again. From the amount of cookies, pies, and cakes lining the counters in the kitchen, the big dining room table, and each of the eight chairs, Patsy had prepared enough desserts to satisfy the sweet tooth of well over two hundred guests.

The baking done, Brooke waited until the last possible second to go upstairs to get ready, so she didn’t have time to second-guess her decision or think of an excuse to get out of going.

She wanted to go.

Except on the way to the restaurant, in the close confines of Shane’s small Jeep, with his large body so close, the darkness started to close in and she plummeted into first-date anxiety like someone had tied a dozen cinder blocks to her waist and shoved her off the edge of sanity. Her mouth went dry and her heart fluttered in her chest as she stared out the window, trying to distract herself by watching house after house pass by, some with porch lights on, some without, all crowded one right after the other.

It made no sense. A date with Shane should be easy. She didn’t have to work hard to impress him, didn’t need to study up on current events beforehand or stress about being a good conversationalist and enjoyable dinner companion. She didn’t have to adhere to strict cultured and decorous behavior; her mother would not be following up with him to see how the date went. Brooke wouldn’t have to dread her mother’s morning-after interrogation phone call or prepare excuses to avoid another date, or endure her mother’s harsh criticisms and demands Brooke try harder to make a respectable match.

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