Summer Girl by Sophie Hill

Author:Sophie Hill [Hill, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Heather

I could feel the sidewalk lurch under me. Barron’s mouth kept moving, words kept spewing out, as the world dropped from underneath my feet and my heart leapt into my throat and choked me.

“We’re due to tour Europe together this summer as soon as Heather finishes up her little Nancy Drew mystery mission here. I guess she decided to do some slumming to pass the time.” He smiled, the smile of a shark about to leap from the water and rip your throat out. “That’s okay. She’s done this before. We’ve always worked it out.”

Lies. All lies. I had never done anything like this before. And my parents had run the engagement announcement in the paper without asking me. My mother had paid for the European trip without asking me. I’d broken up with Barron the day after the engagement announcement ran.

But I could see the look on Slade’s face, the rage and the hurt that briefly flashed there before the doors slammed shut, before they were replaced by something much worse.

Cold, blank, indifference.

He hated me. He thought I’d lied to him.

“Slade, wait! He’s lying to you!” I cried out, but it was too late. Slade turned and walked away without a word, yanked open the door to his car, and flung himself in. He roared away without looking back at me.

I turned to Barron.

“What the hell was that?” I screamed. “You can’t have me, so nobody else can have me either?”

“It isn’t over between us,” he snapped. “You made a total fool of me in front of all my friends. I’ve heard what you’re doing now – working at this stinking garbage heap and fucking that pile of shit? Give this the fuck up, Heather, before I make you really sorry.”

“Shut up, you fucking moron,” his half-sister Veronica snapped. She was definitely his better half. We’d been friends forever; that was how I met Barron in high school and started dating him. We all used to hang out in Hidden Cove every summer; their parents owned houses on the beach near my family’s house.

She turned to me. “I’m really, really sorry. I came with him because he said he was coming here no matter what, and I hoped if I were here I could keep him from acting like too much of a scumbag. I guess I was wrong.”

“You owe me!” Barron shouted at me, eyes practically bulging from his head. “You made me look like a total loser! You know how you’re going to fix this? We’re going to fly the fuck back to Raleigh, together, announce that the engagement is back on, and-“

“It was never on in the first place, you jackass!”

“Really,” he sneered. “Because that’s not what your mother told me. She said that she’d told you I was going to propose, and you were jumping up and down with excitement. If you weren’t going to accept, why the hell did your family run the announcement in the paper?”

I went cold inside. I was shaking so hard I looked like I were about to have a seizure.

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