Meet Me at the Summit by Mandi Lynn

Author:Mandi Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mandi Lynn
Published: 2021-08-10T17:37:01+00:00

Chapter 17

The plan is in place. The last weekend of August, Dylan and I will hike the route my dad and I take every summer. Dylan has his plane tickets picked out, though he’s using an app to track the flight and waiting for the prices to drop. If worse comes to worst—he promised he would drive out if needed. Lori, of course, is thrilled.

“Oh my God!” she screams when I tell her. I called her on video chat almost as soon as Dylan left. “I knew it! I knew it had to be the reason you haven’t been texting me as much!”

I tell her everything in one swoop, trying to get the words out as quickly as possible before she can interrupt me. “Calm down, you act like I’ve never gone out with a guy before,” I say. I’m sitting on the bench seat of the bus, my laptop resting on the table. The bus windows are open to let some of the fresh summer air in, even if it is a little muggy today.

“No, you’re right. But this has a sort of Hallmark movie vibe. I mean, come on, Marly! And he’s coming here?” she asks, eyes wide.

“At the end of the month. To hike, yes.”

“Either way, I’ll get to meet him, right?” Her smile is huge. I swear she enjoys watching me date more than she enjoys dating herself. Much more fun to observe from the outside when you’re not the one whose heart is at risk.

“I think so. As long as you don’t scare him away.”

She raises her eyebrows at the sarcasm, but lets it slide. “Is he going to take the rest of the trip with you? Very Hallmark inspired right there if he travels with you in the bus.”

“He’s going to fly out to meet me,” I say. I push my laptop away to make some space on the table and grab food from the cabinet next to me.

“Are you making lunch right now?” Lori puts her face closer to the screen as if that will help improve her view.

“Yes,” I say, bending down to reach the fridge that’s located in one of the bottom cabinets and pull some cold cuts out.

“Marly, now is not the time for eating! You still have things to fill me in on!”

I grab a few slices of ham and cheese and top it with ranch, not bothering to make anything fancy. “No, I told you everything,” I tell her, shaking my head as I take a bite.

“No kiss?” she asks.

“No kiss,” I repeat.

“So you’ll bare your soul to him, but not kiss him?”

I roll my eyes at her. “Totally different things. We’re still practically strangers,” I tell her.

“You would tell a stranger about you and your dad’s hiking traditions?” she asks, raising an eyebrow.

Most people who know me know I hike Mount Washington every year, but Lori and my parents were the only ones to know about the bubbles. And I guess Dylan knows now as well. “Okay, I get it,” I tell her, laughing a little.

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