Saving Hadley_Boys of Summer by Amy Sparling

Author:Amy Sparling [Sparling, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07R933QS5
Published: 2019-06-03T23:00:00+00:00

Six

The ride back home feels too short. As soon as I see Grandad’s house in the distance, I’m suddenly not ready to get off the scooter again. I certainly don’t want to go back up to my room. I might not admit this to Jeremy but getting out of the house today had been a great idea. We walked all around the gift shop, played with the hermit crabs, and picked out matching neon green sunglasses. I put them on just for fun but Jeremy had insisted on buying us both a pair.

I’m wearing them now as we ride back home, the shopping bag filled with Jeremy’s nephew’s gift tucked in the crook of my arm. My other arm is wrapped around his side. I try to keep my grip as loose as possible but occasionally we hit a bump in the road and I can feel the ripples of his abs. Lane did not have abs like this.

Not that it matters, I tell myself. Lane is no longer my boyfriend and Jeremy never will be.

My grandad stands at the top of the stairs when we arrive. I wonder how long he’s been there, if he’s keeping tabs on me. Or maybe it was just a coincidence.

Jeremy stops, but keeps the motor running. I want to ask him to stay a while but I can’t find the words to say it, so I just climb off the scooter. “Thanks for the emergency fix,” I say, smiling at him. Our sunglasses have an orange-blue mirror tint to the lenses and I can see myself in the reflection while I look at him.

“Anytime.”

He looks like he might want to say more, but then he looks up instead, and waves at Grandad. “Thanks for letting me borrow your granddaughter.”

“You hungry?” he calls out.

“Always,” Jeremy says.

Grandad nods. “You can stay for dinner. I’m grilling ribs. They’ll be ready in about an hour.”

“Sounds good, sir.”

Grandad nods once and then walks off, presumably back to the grill at the other end of the porch. Jeremy turns off the scooter. “You know… I don’t think we’ve fully fixed your emergency,” he says.

“Oh yeah?” My heart jumps for joy. Maybe our little hang out session doesn’t have to end so soon. “What else do we need to do?”

His hand reaches behind his head and he stares up at me. I’m the taller one now that he’s sitting on the scooter and I’m standing. He gives me an unsure grin. “Walk on the beach?”

I grin right back at him. “Sounds fun.”

We walk to the edge of Grandad’s property, where the grass thins and then becomes sand. My dad always talks about how he could sell this place and make a lot of money because it’s right on the ocean and ocean properties are highly coveted. My grandad always says that my dad can do whatever he wants with the place after he’s dead. I know Dad will probably want to sell it right away when that fateful day comes,

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