Summer of Seventeen by Jane Harvey-Berrick

Author:Jane Harvey-Berrick [Harvey-Berrick, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Amazon: B00MWC9H5S
Publisher: Harvey Berrick Publishing
Published: 2014-09-21T23:00:00+00:00

The next few days were strange. Awkward. But it was getting easier.

Yansi was grounded. It was obvious that she got into a shit load of trouble for coming to see me when she did. She’d never had much freedom, but now her parents wouldn’t let her leave the house unless one of them was with her, although she wouldn’t tell me what they’d said when she went back home that day. I tried to ask her, but she just said it wasn’t important. I wasn’t sure how that squared with her insistence on complete honesty—from me—but I didn’t want to push her either.

It was getting good again, and I wasn’t going to risk that.

Mr. Alfaro wasn’t happy. Not that he ever looked anything other than a Hispanic grim reaper—or maybe he was just constipated. Either way, the sight of me made him pissed, and I kept expecting to be fired, but he never did.

Although I wasn’t allowed to sit in the truck’s cab anymore, but I was used to that by now.

Yansi sent me at least a dozen text messages each day. Every time Mr. Alfaro saw me checking my phone, this weird vein throbbed in the side of his head. On the third day after we got back together, he made me leave my phone in the truck while we were working. But then I spent my whole lunchtime texting, just to piss him off some more. Well, that was part of it, but I really wanted to hear from her. Whatever, I think it worked. Not that I was trying to give my girlfriend’s dad a coronary, but he was being a complete douche canoe about it.

I changed the password on my phone, because if any of my friends saw the messages I sent her, they’d take away my man-card; probably tear it up and burn it, too. But knowing that she was thinking about me and wanted to be with me … it felt damn fine. A lonely corner of my mind wondered if maybe Yansi was right: the time we’d been apart had shown us both how much we had to lose. Well, I’d already known that, but I was glad that Yansi did now. I hated that I’d put her through so much shit, but we’d gotten better at talking to each other—the important stuff.

I thought Sean was going to be a dick about it when I told him that me and Yansi were back together, but he wasn’t.

“No, I get it,” he said. “I don’t get her, but what you guys have—that’s real.”

I had to let that register in my brain, and then check that the words really had come from Sean.

He gave me an irritated look and then shrugged.

“I can think deep shit just as much as you can, bro. You were turning into a cock-sucking emo bitch without the ole ball an’ chain around.” Then his voice turned serious. “If she’s what you want, hang onto that. Because if there’s nothing you want, life is shit.

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