Watermelon Summer by Hess Anna

Author:Hess, Anna [Hess, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Published: 2013-12-12T08:00:00+00:00

What I didn't tell Mom is that I was starting to wonder if college was the right next step for me. Living at Greensun was turning into a fascinating adventure, and I was pretty sure I was learning just as much by browsing Dad's library as I would have in English 101. Plus, as weird as I found parts of the Appalachian culture—kids toting guns, for example—I felt more grounded here than I'd ever been before. I was literally growing my future when I transplanted raspberries out of the impenetrable patch and lined them up in easy-harvest rows. And the power of working together in a team was inspiring. For the first time in my life, I felt like I was really living, rather than observing the lives of people around me.

On the other hand, Mom had a pretty solid point when it came to the danger of throwing away your future for a boy. Not that she'd ever said so in my hearing, but I knew Mom's life had made a sudden left turn when she'd gotten pregnant with me. I'd also seen how falling for a guy had clouded the eyes of girls at my school, how they'd decide to drop dreams of Harvard then follow a boyfriend to the state university instead, and I'd resolved not to date in high school for that very reason. Plus, I'd read Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed and knew that the chances of a couple staying together if they hooked up before they were 25 were pretty slim. As a certified over-achiever, it seemed to make sense to wait until the deck wasn't stacked against me.

But I was going to need to grow a third hand because...Jacob was just so darn appealing! Hours had passed while all these thoughts whooshed through my head, and now I looked over at Kat, who was busy painting Lucy's toenails on the couch of the farmhouse. (If there was ever a dog who less needed painted toenails, I had yet to meet one, but Kat had trouble sitting still, and Lucy didn't mind any sort of attention.) "Do you think I'm going to make bad decisions because of my crush on Jacob?" I asked her.

"And the ball flies in out of left field!" Kat proclaimed in a sports-announcer voice. "Where's that coming from?" Then glanced over at the phone I was still fiddling with, despite being way outside the cell-phone-reception zone, she added, "Oh, you've been talking to your mom, huh?" At my nod, Kat closed up the bottle of polish so she could keep her attention trained on me. "Look, I won't tell you that I like the kid but, if anything, he seems to be more of a workaholic than you are. Young love appears to be good for getting a community running."

"But is that really what I should be doing?" I pressed. "Mom thinks Greensun is going to stand in the way of me going to college. And maybe she's right—the farm does seem more important right now.

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