Wildfire by Hannah Grace

Author:Hannah Grace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2023-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty AURORA

“WHAT’S A GIRL GOT TO do to be kissed around here?” I grumble as I help Emilia load a serving tray with hot chocolate. The rain has been on and off since it started this afternoon, unusual for this time of year in California and wholly inconvenient for me, since it forced Russ and me to run back to camp. According to Alexander I-Know-Everything Smith, it’s something to do with a remnant of a tropical storm being dragged north and we’re set to have terrible weather for the next twelve hours. I hate thunder and lightning, so knowing Emilia will be watching the kids tonight and I’ll be in our cabin alone fills me with dread. Therefore, I’ve spent the past twenty minutes complaining to my entirely unbothered best friend.

“What happened to sticking to the rules, so you get to sleep peacefully at night knowing you didn’t contribute to someone getting fired?”

“I don’t think I said that.”

Her eyes narrow as she tries to intimidate me into a confession. “I know for a fact you don’t remember everything your rambling ass says, but I do. You definitely said it at least five times. I think I preferred when you were wild. I heard about it less.”

Flicking her forehead with one hand, I throw a marshmallow into my mouth with the other. Emilia can complain all she wants. I’ve liked one guy in our entire friendship; she has been single collectively for about four days in as many years, and I’ve lived through every stage of every relationship.

She owes me after I had to deal with one obsessed girl who turned out to be a drug dealer with scary friends.

“I don’t know how to feel my feelings. It’s like the opposite of the feeling scaries. What do I do?”

“You like him, like him? You don’t just like that he gives you attention? And because you know he likes you, too, and therefore won’t reject you?”

“I like him, like him. I think he’s a nice guy and he makes me laugh. He makes me feel seen and I don’t want to fuck it up because I don’t know how to be a functional adult. Why haven’t you made me go to therapy yet? You’re a bad friend.”

“What happened to ‘I don’t need to pay a therapist to tell me I have daddy issues’?” she says, rolling her eyes. “Okay, you want my advice? You’re not going to like it…”

“I’m ready. Tell me.”

“You need to wait until we’re back in Maple Hills. See how you feel when you get your freedom back and the camp goggles are gone.”

“Ugh,” I groan. “That’s terrible advice. Why won’t you just enable me?”

“Because I love you. Now move,” she orders, picking up the hot chocolate tray and nodding to the other one. “If you’re going to be annoying, at least be helpful.”

I try to be helpful, but my mind is working overtime this evening. Between the storm and Russ, I have too much nervous energy. I

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