Watercolor by Moore Leigh Talbert

Author:Moore, Leigh Talbert [Moore, Leigh Talbert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 1492394319
Amazon: B00FIPMA00
Barnesnoble: B00FIPMA00
Goodreads: 18212670
Publisher: Leigh Moore
Published: 2013-09-23T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Spring break was approaching, and after that, we’d be racing toward the finish line with only prom standing between us and graduation. It made me sick and nervous and happy at the same time. I hated the end was looming before us, but I couldn’t deny I was excited about college and the future. My only heaviness came when I tried to fit me and Julian into the picture.

Julian was welding again and busy turning the sketches he’d made for the last several weeks into three-dimensional works of art. I still hadn’t figured out a way to tell him about Loyola. I needed to do it, but I was afraid he’d ask me how long I’d known. Then I was worried he’d be angry that I hadn’t told him right away. I knew the longer I waited the worse it got, but he’d gone from mentioning it all the time to never mentioning it at all. And it was hard to work into conversations.

I’d texted Rachel with the news, and I hoped she and I could talk about apartments and stuff at lunch. It was my plan for letting him know—he could hear us talking, and I’d tell him I’d just found out. But Rachel was tied up planning a senior bonfire and hadn’t been around during lunch all week.

After school, I had to stop by the paper office, and Julian suggested I drop by the garage and watch him work when I was done. I agreed and had my camera ready to take pictures of him working. I also made a firm resolution that this would be the day I’d tell him about Loyola. Of course, I also had to tell my parents. Suddenly college and the future and separation all felt very real, and that sadness pushed even harder in my chest. I didn’t want to think about what was going to happen to us. I just wanted to be happy with Julian, being his girlfriend.

I arrived at the garage a little after five, and I could hear him inside. He’d been collecting pieces of fencing and other large items of scrap to assemble the bench scene he’d shown me. I stopped and put my jacket back in the car. It was still cool, but not enough to compete with the heat generated by the blowtorch in his small garage. Then I remembered how he pulled off his shirt sometimes when he worked and smiled, hoping it would be one of those days. I didn’t expect to hear a girl’s voice as I got closer.

Peeking around the door, I nearly lost it when I saw Renee sitting on his worktable. Her shiny brown hair hung loose down her back, and she was wearing a low-cut blouse and short skirt. Her legs were uncrossed. I could read that body language a mile away, and I was furious. Julian didn’t seem to notice as he moved several of the large pieces of fencing he’d collected to the back of the garage.

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