Waking Up to Boys by Hailey Abbott

Author:Hailey Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780061971655
Publisher: HarperCollins

As Chelsea watched Todd in the rearview mirror, she couldn’t help being amazed at the way he moved gracefully in and out of the wake. She had spent hours and hours of her life watching the pros and semi-pros board in person, on DVD, and on YouTube, and Todd was not the best. He wasn’t the strongest, the lightest, or the fastest, and he certainly didn’t jump the highest or do the splashiest grabs.

But Chelsea had always thought that Todd was the most capable of making wakeboarding a beautiful sport. His body moved with grace and precision; he had a perfect economy of movement and always seemed to know exactly where he was going and what he was doing. Even if he ended up on his butt, his body just flowed. He soared through the air, hovering over the water before coming back down in a perfect white spray of foam. Every move was precise, deliberate, and incalculably beautiful, and watching him made Chelsea’s chest tighten with both admiration and longing. It was like she was falling in love with him all over again.

Which she just couldn’t allow herself to do. It would hurt too much. It already did.

“Good ride,” Chelsea complimented him when he returned to the boat and stripped his wetsuit down to his waist.

“Thanks.” Todd leaned over her to get a towel, and his hair fell forward, dripping water onto her arm.

“Sorry,” he murmured, smiling almost shyly as he offered her the towel to dry off.

“It’s cool.” Chelsea could barely meet his eyes. “I’ll be soaked in a minute anyway.”

“True,” Todd acknowledged. “Hey, did you see that triple handle pass I pulled earlier? How’d it look?”

“All right,” Chelsea said, smiling.

Todd playfully rolled the towel into a rattail and swatted it at her butt. “All right, yourself,” he grumbled. “You get out there and try to top me!”

Plunging into the cool, clean lake water after a long day in the sun was almost more refreshing than her easy banter with Todd. Maybe he really does like me after all, Chelsea thought as she swam out into the wake and found her footing atop the board. Maybe we can be more than just competitors…maybe we can even be more than just friends. But wait…what was she thinking? She already had a boyfriend, and Sebastian was great. He was certainly nicer to her than Todd had ever been—even when she and Todd were getting along, it was more because those were the times she could tolerate his rough teasing. He treated her more like a kid sister than like a potential girlfriend, so why did her hormones always go into overdrive when he was around? Chelsea shook her head and wished she could eliminate boys from her mind. This was her precious time out on the water, and she intended to make the most of it.

Instead of launching straight into her usual gonzo tricks, Chelsea tried to emulate Todd’s smooth, reserved movements, concentrating on the way her body flowed with the water.

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