Turning Home (A Small Town Novel) by Nelson Stephanie

Author:Nelson, Stephanie [Nelson, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Book One
Published: 2014-02-18T04:00:00+00:00

After we got dressed, we sat on the tailgate of my truck. I’d had a lot of sex before, but that was a first for me, too. That wasn’t sex … that was…something else. Making love? Fuck. I hated myself for waiting so long to talk to her. Why had I waited so long?

“I don’t want this to be over,” I told her and reached for her hand. Pushing my pride to the side, I said, “We can make it work. People do long distance all the time, right?”

Brooke squeezed my hand, her eyes focused on our joined fingers. A curtain of blonde hair fell and hid her face from my view.

“Dylan…”she began. “It wouldn’t work. You’d start resenting me for leaving, and I would constantly worry that another girl was in your bed.” She lifted her head and met my eyes. “Let’s not ruin tonight by forcing something that can’t work. Tonight, this memory, it’ll be something we can always look back on.”

Why did my chest hurt so goddamn much? “So, that’s it? We share these amazing days together and you want to leave it in your rearview mirror?”

“Think about it, Dylan,” she said, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. “Can you really see this working out? I’ll be swamped with classes and homework, and you and Jase will be new business owners soon. Our lives will be too busy to just pick up and drive to see each other. Eventually the strain will tear us apart. I don’t want to end on bad terms with you. I just want this,” she squeezed my hand again, “this memory with you.”

Common sense told me she was probably right, but I didn’t give a fuck about common sense right now. The only thing I could concentrate on was the fact that come tomorrow, Roseville would be without the only girl I cared about.

“Is that really what you want?” I asked, shocked I was the one begging for more instead of the other way around.

Before she could answer, red and blue flashing lights lit up the night. Sheriff McDonald’s patrol car slowly came up the overgrown dirt path, stopping just behind my truck. The driver’s side door opened, and Sheriff McDonald got out and made his way over to us. I’d had a few run-ins with the Sheriff, thanks to Jase’s bad temper. Needless to say, the good ol’ Sheriff didn’t think much of the likes of me.

“Now why am I not surprised to find you at the end of a police call?” he asked me.

“Someone called you?” Brooke said, hopping down from the tailgate.

The Sheriff tipped his balding head. “Your parents,” he replied. “Took me a while to find you, but they’ll be happy to know you’re safe.

I remembered Brooke’s cell ringing earlier tonight and sighed. If she had answered it, maybe the Sheriff wouldn’t be giving me the stink eye right now.

“Get your things,” he said to Brooke, “I’ll drive you home.”

“Sir,” I said, hopping down from the truck, “I’ll drive her home.

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