Lost and Found in Cedar Cove (Short Story) by Debbie Macomber

Author:Debbie Macomber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780804177863
Publisher: Random House LLC
Published: 2013-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

After a dreary day, late that afternoon the rain had tapered off and the sun broke out over Puget Sound as Travis and Amanda walked side by side down the boardwalk that edged the waterfront.

“Our marine biology class was here last week, and we saw a starfish that I swear was about the size of a basketball,” Travis commented, looking over the railing and into the water that gently lapped against the rocks below. “It had wrapped itself around a big rock. I could barely believe my eyes.”

“Was it pink?”

“Pink? No, it was white.”

Amanda had to be careful—she didn’t want to intimidate him by rattling off a bunch of facts about local sea life, although she knew quite a bit. It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him starfish weren’t the only species that grew to inordinately large sizes in Puget Sound. Octopuses did as well.

Travis leaned against the railing, focusing his attention across the water to the lighthouse in the far distance. “I didn’t thank you for helping. I appreciate it, Amanda.”

He was actually thanking her.

“You’re welcome.”

“The truth is, Hailey stopping by rattled me, and I might have given you the wrong impression with what I said. I didn’t mean to do that.”

He still hadn’t looked at her. “What do you mean?”

He exhaled as if to say she wasn’t making this any easier by asking all these questions. “Mainly that it wouldn’t be that big a deal to me, for the two of us, you know …” He let the rest fade.

“The two of us …” she pried.

“You know, to be seen together.”

Amanda moved closer to the railing and rested her arms across the top rung. “The truth is, I wouldn’t mind it, either.”

He glanced her way and smiled.

She smiled back.

“I knew who you were long before you were named valedictorian.”

“Oh?” She wasn’t sure how else to respond. Earlier, he’d mentioned her date for the Valentine dance, and that had surprised her.

“You play the flute, right?”

“Yeah.”

“You were in band?”

“When I was a sophomore and junior. You weren’t, though.”

“No, but I play the guitar and was in the music room just before the band came in for practice.”

Amanda searched her memory for any clue she remembered. It came back blank. She didn’t recall ever seeing Travis in the music room. “Were we ever in any classes together?” she asked, but she doubted it.

“Junior high.”

“No way.” Amanda didn’t believe it. She’d gone through twelve years of school in the Cedar Cove system, and she would have remembered Travis if he’d been in any of her classes.

“The end of seventh grade,” he clarified. “My mom and I moved to Cedar Cove the last week of school after she got a job with the shipyard.”

“You remember me from seventh grade?” Unbelievable.

Travis hesitated and then spoke so low she had to strain to hear him, and even then she wasn’t sure she’d heard correctly.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that.”

His gaze remained focused in the distance. “You were the first girl I ever noticed in Cedar Cove.

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