Five Summers by Una Lamarche

Author:Una Lamarche
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781595146724
Publisher: Razorbill
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

As she sat on the grass near the dock, watching the boats leave one by one, Emma wondered if anyone would notice if she snuck back to the bunk and spent the afternoon rereading Little Women and stress-eating instead of following everyone to Wexley Island. Probably, she decided; Jo almost certainly had some kind of clipboard stashed in her backpack.

Emma looked around for other people she knew, but she couldn’t find anyone else from their year. She knew she had a tendency to self-sabotage and psych herself out, but it seemed pretty obvious that the day was going to be a waste. The red bikini she had on under her clothes—which was a kind of racy purchase for her, and which she’d bought specifically for reunion (and, if she was being honest with herself, more specifically for Adam)—now felt silly. After all, if anything was going to happen it would have happened last night, when she’d basically thrown herself at him in her underwear. The only person who would care what she looked like in a bikini now was Jo, who would probably say something like, “Hey, Em, didn’t anyone tell you they canceled the Victoria’s Secret swimsuit catalog shoot?”

Sneaking back to her aunt’s car and hightailing it back to New York was looking increasingly attractive, until Emma saw a familiar Sox cap in the distance. Sure enough, Adam, Nate, the twins, and a few other guys were making their way toward the dock from the boys’ side path. She thought they were too far away to see her, but then Adam raised his hand in a tentative wave, and Emma’s fight-or-flight response roared into action. If she stayed put, she realized, she would have to talk to him about Skylar and the sandbar and her amateur stripping, and the potential awkwardness of that conversation was too much for her to bear. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a boat with three people in it that was getting ready to leave, and she practically sprinted over.

“You guys leaving?” she panted.

“Yeah,” said the twentysomething brunette holding the oars. “You need a ride?”

“Desperately,” Emma said.

The girl looked strangely familiar, but it wasn’t until Emma already had one foot in the boat that she realized it was Meredith, one of the drunk girls from the bonfire.

“Well get in,” she said. “We need another body anyway, otherwise we’ll get stuck with a weirdo.”

“Yeah,” chirped Allie, whose Jeopardy! buzz had decidedly worn off. “And I’ll give you five dollars if you row, because my head is killing me.”

Emma sat down next to Ruth, the third spin the bottle enthusiast, and helped steer the boat away from shore, just as Adam stepped onto the dock. “Meet me on the beach?” he called. Emma just waved, as if she hadn’t heard him.

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