Nights Under the Tennessee Stars by Joanne Rock

Author:Joanne Rock
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Family Life, Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781460379899
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SARAH THOUGHT ABOUT checking her phone for the tenth time in an hour. But the last time she’d looked she’d gotten a Twitter direct message from “lockeduplove47.” It totally creeped her out that someone from her mom’s hometown wanted to connect with her. For her last night in Heartache, she didn’t want to think about the past. The soccer game had ended. Everyone was leaving the bleachers to climb up a nearby hill so they could have a party in the middle of nowhere. It sounded fun, and Lucas had told Ally he’d be there even though he hadn’t put in an appearance at the game.

Sarah really, really needed to have fun tonight. Stressed about leaving Heartache, she had called her counselor on her “for emergencies only” private line to confide about the letter from Brandon. She’d regretted the confidence as soon as the words were out. Sure, it had felt good for a nanosecond to share the truth with someone, but what if her counselor told her dad? Theresa had said Sarah needed to think hard about going to her father with the information or else they’d need to “revisit” the issue. Did that mean Theresa would tell him anyhow? He’d lose it.

Plus, what if he made her open the letter? The thing felt like a bomb in her purse that she had to handle carefully. What if there was some weird detail in there about her mom or her mom’s death? She couldn’t stand for the whole nightmare to come back just when they’d finally, finally put some space between them and that awful night. She couldn’t go backward. Refused to return to the days when she woke from nightmares five times before dawn and cried through the hours she didn’t sleep.

“Hey, New Girl,” a guy’s voice called from behind the bleachers. “Are you coming down or do I have to go up there and get you?”

Her heart raced.

She turned on the cold metal seat to see Lucas standing on the grass while kids flooded out of the stands to head either toward the parking lot or up the hill for the party.

“It depends,” she shouted back, a tingly excitement taking hold and chasing away the worries about everything else. “If you keep calling me New Girl, you’re going to have a tough time getting me to go anywhere with you.”

He folded his arms.

“Is that how it is?”

“Definitely.” She had no idea where this boldness had come from. She’d been taking other kinds of risks this year, but not with boys.

Especially not ones she genuinely liked.

“Then I guess I didn’t make the same impression on you that you did on me.” He didn’t seem to care that other kids noticed them talking.

A few even pointed and whispered.

Would he really make a scene like this unless he’d broken up with the girlfriend?

“Is that so?” She edged closer to the bars where she peeped through to watch him.

The lights had gone out right after the soccer game and the sun was setting, but her eyes had adjusted to the growing dimness.

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