Those Summer Nights by Ivy Smoak

Author:Ivy Smoak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: beach romance, summer romance, summer love, new adult romcom, romcoms, sexy romcom, nwe adult romance
Publisher: Ivy Smoak

Chapter 16

Sunday

I sat down in the back room of the ice cream shop and pulled out my phone. It was hard to get out of bed in the morning. It felt like I was back at school, moping around. But I knew I had to fight the feeling. I couldn't get sucked back into that hole again. And if I thought once more about that blonde slut falling asleep in J.J.'s arms, I'd lose it.

To J.J.’s credit, he did stop by the ice cream shop on Friday. And he hadn’t asked for free ice cream or anything. He just asked if I wanted to hang out. I’d told him I had plans with Kristen. Which was true…dinner with Kristen was one of my favorite things.

Regardless, I was pretty sure he was growing very suspicious that Kristen didn’t exist. But I didn’t care. I wasn’t sure if I knew how to be just his friend, so I had to keep turning him down. It was the only thing I could do to keep my heart intact. How was I supposed to hang out with him for hours as friends when all I wanted to do was reenact our kiss? Or the way he touched me in the sand? It wasn’t possible. There was no way to go back to being platonic.

I looked down at my hand. Reggie's number had vanished a few showers ago. But I found myself constantly staring at my hand like maybe it had all the answers anyway. I wanted to go to the party tomorrow. I’d taken today’s shift partly because I didn’t want to work on the crazy busy 4th of July and partially because I didn’t want to miss the party. And maybe I didn’t want J.J. to know my schedule anymore. To get tomorrow off I’d also had to grab a Tuesday shift. Maybe I’d just change all my days to avoid him.

I sighed. That was ridiculous. I couldn’t avoid him forever. I couldn’t stay fixated on J.J. for the rest of my life. I needed to get out there and make more friends and meet more people. And maybe if I let a few more people in, I wouldn’t be so obsessed with him.

Reggie had invited me to the 4th of July party. I owed it to him to give at least a friendship between us a chance. It wasn’t like J.J. had asked me to the party. We were just friends right now because I was too much of a coward to tell him how I felt. If he was even going, he was probably taking the blonde girl. Maybe she was offering him something I couldn’t…a move to New York. And I definitely couldn’t offer him that. The closest I could get was Newark. Even that was a stretch. I hadn’t heard back from the admissions office yet.

I took a deep breath and typed out a text to Reggie. "Hey! It's Mila. So, where exactly on the beach is that party?" I pressed send.

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