The Truth About You & Me by Amanda Grace

Author:Amanda Grace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, teen fiction, teen novel, teenlit, ya, ya fiction, ya novel, ya book, young adult, young adult novel, young adult fiction, young adult book
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2013-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

We stayed on the riverbank for almost two hours, sitting on the rocks until we were both more than a little frozen. It was a different world there, on the shores of the river, where time seemed to stop around us as if that superpower of mine actually worked. But eventually we had to give in to the cold, and we traced our path back to your adorable little house. I leaned into my jacket, wishing I’d worn something a little warmer, rubbing my hands together, willing them to warm, driving away the tingly feeling just as we stepped through your back door and went to the kitchen.

I stayed quiet as I watched you work, pulling things out of the fridge, stepping out back to light the grill, turning and twisting and cooking like you did it every day, were at ease in the kitchen.

My parents thought I was going to the library, then studying with friends. I had never ever lied to them like this, and they had absolutely no reason to think I wasn’t telling the truth. That’s why it was such a piece of cake. Sixteen years of being the model child—screaming inside for some kind of relief and yet marching on like a soldier, doing every little thing expected of me—and in that instant I’d given them the first bald-faced lie, the first one of many that would lead me down to the cliff, the cliff I’d jump right off of in a few short weeks as my lies snowballed.

“It’ll be done in a few,” you said by the time I’d fully warmed. “There’s Snapple and soda in the fridge.”

I got up just as you stepped outside to pull the chicken off the grill, stopping to pat Voldemort as I headed toward the fridge. It’s funny how different your dog was when he was home, how often he just slept on his bed, occasionally thumping his tail on the ground. So different from the dog who bounded up the trails with us.

When I peered into your fridge, I saw Snapple and soda, but I also saw beer and a six-pack of hard cider and I was so damned tempted to grab one, twist it open, and walk out to that patio like there was nothing wrong. I wanted to be old enough to do that so you wouldn’t feel so wrong about us.

All I ever wanted was to be free with you, but every time I turned around there were more restrictions, more evidence that I wasn’t as old as you were.

So I grabbed a half-lemonade/half-tea Snapple and popped the top, reading the silly little fact under the lid. Relative to size, the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

God, I did not need to be thinking of the tongue.

I had to wait to kiss you.

Later, so many people told me that your allure had to do with you being forbidden. Like somehow knowing I wasn’t allowed to be with you is what made me want to be with you even more.

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