The Truth About You & Me (ARC) by Grace Amanda

Author:Grace, Amanda [Grace, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9780738736242
Google: ru8dCLhK3a4C
Amazon: 0738736244
Goodreads: 16088678
Publisher: Flux
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

The air felt like it’d been sucked out of my lungs, in

the same way it’s sucked from a room during a house fire.

“I thought we decided—”

Your look silenced me. It was somehow fierce and soft

at the same time. “We did, and I won’t go back on that. I

want to see what this could be with us. But-—”

“But you’ve thought about walking away,” I said, fear

settling over me, like you were going to desert me at any

moment. And I was too far gone to handle that. “You’ve

thought about what everyone else would think.”

You nodded, but your eyes were trained on the water,

and all I could see was your thick, dark lashes, as for a

moment you closed your eyes and they brushed your

cheeks, and I wanted to touch them, touch you, but

I stayed glued to that spot on the bank, my feet at odd

angles on the rocks. “You’re so much younger than me,”

you said, in a matter of fact voice, in a way I couldn’t

refute. “And I don’t even know if you’re just doing an AA

degree, or planning to transfer and move away, or what,

and I just keep wondering what the hell I’m doing with a

girl fresh out of high school.”

I couldn’t explain the relief I’d felt at the way you’d

worded that, because when I responded I didn’t have to

lie, not so obviously, anyway, because I sorta was fresh out

of high school. I wasn’t going to class there anymore, never

would again.

But it was the out of high school that didn’t totally

work, because really, I was enrolled in high school. For-

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