City Love by Colasanti Susane

Author:Colasanti, Susane [Colasanti, Susane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, young adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780062307729
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2015-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

SADIE

HEAT WAVES IN NEW YORK are not pretty. Sweaty people crammed up against you on the subway. Stenchy garbage bags on the street. Slamming into a wall of hot humidity the second you step outside. Everything slows down. I’ve been trying to use the lethargic pace as an opportunity to be present and look up more. But all I want to do is run to the nearest air-conditioned space.

I wipe sweat off my upper lip. Austin is late. He told me to meet him here on the corner of 11th and Bank. He didn’t tell me what we’re doing. It’s a surprise. As much as I love surprises, if Austin doesn’t get here soon his surprise will be finding me dissolved in a puddle of sweat.

One cool thing about this corner is that it was a set location for 13 Going on 30. This is the corner Jenna rounds on her way to Matty’s place when she’s looking for his building. I love the plot of that movie. Jenna and Matty grow up next door to each other. He loves her. She sees him as just a friend. Seventeen years later, Jenna realizes that they belong together. They have been soul mates all along.

Two sweaty women in their twenties walk by, complaining about the heat. One of them says it’s 103 degrees. The other insists it’s 107. Any temperature over 80 is too extreme for me. I try not to panic that I’m going to be totally disgusting by the time Austin gets here. Even in this suffocating heat, Austin is the only thing I can think about. A few times I even catch myself making googly eyes at the streetlight. We haven’t seen each other for four days. Four long, excruciating days. It will require every shred of strength I can gather to resist pouncing on him the second he pulls up.

What may or may not be Austin’s car pulls up in front of me. All big white SUV-type vehicles look the same. I have to remember to memorize his license plate number so I can identify his car that way.

Austin leans over the front seat and opens the passenger door. “Sorry I’m late!” he says.

I jump in and slam the door. The air-conditioning feels so good I almost kiss the dashboard.

“Hot enough for you?” he asks.

“It could be hotter. The egg I fried on the sidewalk took a whole ten seconds to cook.”

“Sorry you had to wait out there in the heat, sweetie. I promise to make it up to you.”

Austin just called me sweetie. I love it. Even though I promised myself I wouldn’t pounce, I throw my arms around him and kiss him. He kisses me back passionately.

The immense anxiety I felt after our phone awkwardness disappeared yesterday when Austin called to ask me out to dinner tonight. He said he couldn’t wait to see me again. It was making him crazy that his weekend was so busy we couldn’t get together. I was worried for nothing.

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