Summer Daze by Renee Porter

Author:Renee Porter [Porter, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The end of July brought another half summer gone. In less than a month, I would be in Santa Barbara and El? Well she would be anywhere the wheels took her.

I would find her often, sitting out by the pool or on the grass strumming her guitar and writing down lyrics. Sometimes, she would sing to me – it was cheesy really, something she would make up then and there, but I didn’t quite mind. She knew that by the end of the song I’d be dragging her up to her room to show her just how cheesy I thought she was.

We didn’t talk about the impending end. Any time someone would bring it up we would try and change the subject. El and I had a mutual understanding.

If we ignored it things would stay the same.

But even though we both loved to believe it, we knew it wasn’t the truth. We weren’t kids anymore – we were no longer the children who strived for the hot guy to notice them, who yearned for one small peck of a kiss from their crush. Instead, we were adults, with a future full of plans

Okay, and maybe still striving for another small peck from their crush.

Please don’t go. You’re killing me…it feels so goooood.” I rolled my shoulders as El stepped away from behind me. She flexed her fingers and cracked them for good measure.

“You’re tense, like a rock. It literally feels like I just massaged a rock.” I sat looking into El’s mirror at the dirty blonde. Her eyes held such amusement and laughter. How much longer would I get to see that? “What’s wrong?”

I shook my head and smiled. It was August. Before, I could say that I started school in August. Now I would have to say this month. Soon it will be in three weeks, then two, then one.

A million memories already flooded my head. We had a mutual agreement though. This summer was the summer for me and El. One last hurrah.

We were friends who had amazing chemistry.

We were friends who needed to show each other how much we could care.

We were friends who ended up being girlfriends – but only for a few months.

I was a friend who, begrudgingly, was falling in love with my best friend.

“I’m just stressed. Lorissa quit, Lacey is saying that the store isn’t doing well. Mom hasn’t had a client in well over a month and Dad’s been having to work overtime for the last two weeks. I feel like this whole adult thing is sneaking up faster than expected.” I rubbed my face with my hands trying to have a sense of composure. For the most part, summer has been about hanging with friends, kissing and making love – the actual real world had seemed so far off until today.

El wrapped her arms around my shoulders and kissed my neck. My body immediately responded and I allowed her to place a few more before saying she had to go.

And that was another thing that was not very fair.

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