Things You Can't Say by Jenn Bishop

Author:Jenn Bishop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2020-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

19

“COME ON.” XANDER WHIPS THE sheet off me the next morning, breathing warm maple syrup breath all over my face. “Come on, Doodoo. Mom says we can go to the beach today.”

“I told you a billion times, I won’t be seen with you in public if you call me that.”

When he was just learning to talk, Xan struggled with my name. He couldn’t get his Rs out right, so he called me Doo, and then Doodoo.

“Fine!” he huffs, standing at the foot of my bed, waiting for me to get up.

I should want to. It’s the beach, after all. Swimming until your arms ache (or you’ve swallowed too much salt water, whichever comes first). Lying in the warm sun. Watching Xan chase seagulls and fail to catch them. There’s no such thing as a bad day at the beach.

But after how things ended yesterday, all I want is to skip over the weekend and fast-forward to Monday. After coming out of the bathroom, Audrey didn’t talk to me for the rest of the day. I know I deserved it, but still.

“Okay, okay.” I jump out of bed and run over to tickle my brother.

“Stop, stop!” Xan pants in between giggling fits.

“You know I’ll do it again if you ever call me—”

“I won’t! I won’t! Promise! Cross my fart.”

I release him, and he zooms out of my bedroom, giggling, his tiny feet thumping the hardwood stairs. I flip open my front shade and stare across the street at Filipe’s house. Last summer I would have texted him at the first mention of the beach. But between how he acted when I tried to play basketball with him and Theo and how annoyed he got at me during Crash Landing the other day—never mind the library—I don’t know what to do anymore to make things go back to normal.

If I don’t exist to him, maybe … maybe he shouldn’t exist to me either.

I grab my phone off the bedside table and check to see if there are any messages. Nope. I toss it back on my bed and dig around in my dresser for my bathing suit.

It’s Saturday, after all.

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