Somebody Else's Sky by Jessica Hawkins

Author:Jessica Hawkins [Hawkins, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 34402134
Published: 2017-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

14

Lake

I went to the living room window to look into the front yard for the third time in an hour.

“Don’t worry,” Mom said, appearing behind me. She drew my mass of curls off my neck, settling them on my back. “He’ll be more nervous than you.”

I stared forward, wringing my hands. I wasn’t on edge about Corbin. Maybe I should’ve been. He’d taken a weekend off from studying for finals to fly home and take me to the prom. I hadn’t asked him to, but when he’d found out I wasn’t going to go, he’d insisted. I hadn’t fought him as hard as I should’ve, because spending time with Corbin was always good, and truth be told, I missed him.

But it was Manning who had my nerves buzzing. I wanted him to think I looked pretty. To wish he was by my side the way I did. To break things off with Tiffany and take me in his arms, to hell with everyone else. I’d be eighteen in just over a month. It wasn’t that I thought we’d be together right away. Tiffany would need time to forget about Manning, but she would. She always did.

“I want you to be careful tonight,” Mom said. “Corbin’s been in college almost a year now. He has more experience than the boys you know.”

I made a face. “It’s not like that, Mom.”

She cocked her head. “It isn’t?”

“He’s just a friend.”

“Does he know that?”

“Totally.” We’d kissed that one time on the couch, but he’d never brought it up or tried again. I mean, I didn’t see him a lot, just during his breaks from NYU, but we spoke on the phone all the time, and Corbin even told me about the girls he was dating. “He’s just coming because he didn’t want me to miss tonight.”

Mom fixed my hair, plucking at some curls. “That’s sweet of him. I still don’t understand why you didn’t have a date, but I’m glad Corbin is such a gentleman.”

I’d been asked, but I’d turned everyone down. They were children compared to Manning, the only one I wanted. In size, he dwarfed them, but it was more than that. He carried himself differently. He looked at me like he owned part of my soul. The confidence that came through when he spoke, the ways he used his hands. I shivered as goose bumps traveled up my spine.

“Mom,” Tiffany said on her way out of the kitchen. “You’ll mess it up. You don’t understand how easy it is to lose volume.”

Mom stepped aside to give Tiffany access to my hair. “It looks beautiful, Tiffany.”

Tiffany checked the bobby pins. She’d spent over an hour drying and curling my long hair, then pinning half of it up. She’d hairsprayed the rest of the curls, but somehow, they were soft and bouncy on my shoulders. I hadn’t asked her to do all that, but I had to agree with Mom—it looked beautiful.

Tiffany turned me around by my shoulders. Eyebrows drawn, she scanned every inch of my face as if she’d be tested on it later.

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