How I Fly by Anne Eliot

Author:Anne Eliot [Eliot, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, young adult
Publisher: Butterfly Books, LLC
Published: 2015-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Ellen

I’ve stopped at Harrison’s room—Harrison and Cam’s room—on the way to my evening swim. The door’s cracked open, so I peek inside while I knock.

Harrison’s voice is muffled as he calls out, “Ellen, hi. Come in.”

I crutch around the door and breathe a sigh of relief when I realize Cam’s not in here. “How did you know it was me?”

“I heard your crutches. Is one of your legs bothering you? You were way slower than usual.”

“Saving the energy for the pool, that’s all,” I answer, trying not to feel stung by his comment.

He’s pulled his head out of the closet and he’s got his glasses on, which always makes him seem gentle and cute. The way he’s smiling that happy-to-see-you, dimple-dimple grin at me makes me think he didn’t mean to sound harsh. I’m sure I’m being too sensitive. I know he’s been noticing my slow ways ever since my episode in the stairwell, and how could he not? I’m a bit of a shocker sometimes. Now that he’s totally out of his crutches and only left with his boot, he’s almost back to a normal gait. As if to prove my thoughts, he walks effortlessly over while holding a pile of laundry, pausing to place a fast kiss on my lips on his way across the room. “Cam and I are doing some rearranging in here.”

I let my gaze wander the room, steeling myself for anything of Cam’s that might catch my heart, trip me up, or remind me of our past, but from the looks of things, Cam’s brought almost nothing. A plain retro-looking wool blanket tops his bed along with two overstuffed-looking bed pillows that his mom must have bought for him. Only his heavy canvas jacket is visible as a personal item, while everything else he owns seems still unpacked and zipped in a canvas duffel bag under his bed. It’s like Cam’s just out of the military while Harrison robbed the entire Urban Outfitters store.

That’s when I realize why Harrison’s going back and forth from his closet to the other one. “You’re changing room sides! Why?”

He shoots me a wink. “I couldn’t let your ex-boyfriend sleep in the bed where you and I kissed, now could I? It’s already too strange that he’s here at all. This side of the room has magic memories, and I want to keep them all mine.” He winks and pats the bed where we first made out.

I blush, glancing around.

“Where is he?”

“Worried the ex is going to catch us kissing?”

“Stop.” I blush harder. “We only dated two week. He’s hardly this huge, dramatic ex-boyfriend.”

“That’s not what that blabbermouth Laura told me.”

“She’s not a blabbermouth, and you know she exaggerates everything.”

“So what is Cam to you, then, if he’s not your ex? Because Laura said you were star-crossed lovers, in her words, more tragic-and-mystical-and-magical than Romeo and Juliet’s beautiful sad love story.”

I laugh, hoping to change the subject. “Isn’t Laura the cutest?”

“Hardly.” Harrison scowls. “I asked Cam what he was to you, and his story was rather different.

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