Road Trip with a Nerd: A Sweet Young Adult Novella by Stephanie Street

Author:Stephanie Street [Street, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Mallory

Tucked under Grant’s arm, I let him lead me back to his truck. The evening had gotten dark. Campfires lit our way. I tried to remember the last time I’d sat around one.

“I wish we could have a fire,” I said before thinking.

“We can. We just have to look around for some firewood. Actually,” he said, glancing around our campsite. “Sometimes, people leave some. I didn’t notice earlier, but I wasn’t looking, either.”

“Do you have matches?” I asked him.

“No, but I have a lighter. Hang on a second.” He let go of me long enough to dig around in the bag he’d left in the bed of his truck. A few seconds later he held up a flashlight. “Let’s see if there’s any here. If not, we can go looking around. We don’t need much.”

He swept the area around our campsite with his flashlight. There was plenty of wood lying around for a small fire, so we began collecting it into a pile near the fire pit. Once we had enough for a nice sized fire, Grant dug around again in his truck and emerged with a bunch of papers I recognized as the program from Nationals. He tore out several sheets and wadded them up, placing them in the bottom of the fire pit. Then, he carefully built a small log cabin looking thing with various sizes of sticks and twigs before setting a couple of larger logs on the top. Lastly, he took more paper from the program and rolled them together, lighting the end then used it to light the papers under the sticks and twigs.

Soon, we had a crackling fire going.

“I didn’t bring any chairs,” he said but lifted the latch to let down the tailgate. Then he turned to me with a flourish. “Best seat in the house.”

With a little giggle, I turned my back to the tailgate, bracing my arms on the edge, ready to boost myself up. But before I could, Grant’s hands settled firmly on my hips.

“Jump.”

I did, and he lifted, setting me gently onto the tailgate.

“Thanks,” I said, my hands resting on his shoulders, hoping he didn’t notice how breathless I sounded.

Grant didn’t move from where he stood between my knees. For what felt like the millionth time that day, I got the feeling a kiss hovered between us, only a breath away. But that was wrong. I’d sent a text to Matt not twenty minutes ago before exiting the bathroom after my shower. I’d been blunt, upfront about why I contacted him. I sent the photo Bria forwarded to me, again, and asked him what was going on. And, still nothing.

At this point, after today with Grant, I didn’t know if I wanted to even work things out with Matt anymore. Not that I was assuming Grant liked me or would even want to be with me like that. But the way he’d been affecting me for the last ten or so hours had me reevaluating my relationship with Matt.

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