One Time: Summer Loving Book Three by A.M. Daniels

Author:A.M. Daniels [Daniels, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Zeke

Six days.

We had six days left to camp, and today was the start of the final competition.

Up for Monday’s adventure? It was lame, really. A hike was basic. We’d headed out after breakfast with a simple prerogative. Hike six miles toward a remote site where we’d camp in tents. The lesson of the task was planning the packs and stamina of the exercise.

And Evie had no trouble keeping up.

Hell, she’s whooping my ass.

“Why cross country?” I asked her as we trudged along the path.

Each color was given a different route, so Frank and Marin were leading the Cyans to the north of us, and Jane and Kev struck out with the Indigos to the east.

Our Hazelnuts had paired off on this path, all of them hiking and laughing ahead of us. Stuffed backpacks bobbed side to side as the soldier ants trekked on. Evie had fallen back here with me.

“Because the first time I played ding dong ditch, I thought I tore my lungs running away. The worst stitch ever. I wasn’t in shape when I was six.”

Six? I could see her. A hellion little girl raising hell and getting away with it.

“Let me guess. Growing up with four brothers made you more…adventurous?”

She scoffed and adjusted the straps on her backpack. “No. They’re boring as hell. Office jobs. Shopping on QTV. If anything, I’m as full of life as I am because they were so stodgy.”

“You ran in college?” I asked.

“Varsity through high school.” She laughed. “’Til I got kicked off the team for ‘drinking.’”

“Well, were you?”

“It was that cheapo Boone’s Farm shit. That’s not real alcohol. And just a sip. The Worm tattled on me that time.”

The what?

“And I never went to college.” She peered up at me, her face glowing from the exercise. It didn’t make her look tired and spent, but…ready for more. “Where’d you go to college?”

“Miles Community College, no clue what degree. I never graduated, either. I was, uh, discovered during my second year. Good thing, too. My parents were fighting about who should pay my tuition. My scholarships were done. I applied for student loans, but then a friend’s girlfriend said she knew a photographer.”

She frowned. “Photography?”

“I was originally discovered as a model.”

She gripped my arm with a sharp breath of air. “You didn’t remind me of the stud on the Abercrombie & Fitch ads in the mall back then. You were the stud on them.”

I shrugged. “It was just one set. I never wanted to be a model. It kinda snowballed from there. Met the right people. Just in the right place at the right time.”

“And here you are. Retired scenery director and stuntman. Hiking in a knock-off of the Poconos.”

“Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”

“Really? I find that hard to believe.”

I took her hand and gave it a squeeze. Don’t sell yourself short. I’d meant here with her, not this geographical location. “Why?”

“You were in movies. You did kick-ass stunts. That jump in the Bond movie alone…” She whistled. Campers turned back to her.

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