The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs

Author:Susan Wiggs [Wiggs, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

That summer, Caroline and Will fell into an easy friendship. Something inside her recognized that it was special, not like a passing acquaintance with a random kid in a beach volleyball game, but real and alive. It was different from the bond she felt with her school friends, the ones she saw all the time. This was separate, and it felt rare, somehow, maybe because they both knew it would end with the summer.

Sometimes she wasn’t quite sure what to make of this boy. It was so easy to talk to him. The two of them got along in a way that seemed natural and effortless. He was kind of on the quiet side, and she was kind of a chatterbox, so maybe that was the reason they got along so well.

They made the most of each day, finding adventure at every turn. They both loved the smell of the sea, the quality of the salt air. She told him Long Beach had the best digging sand anywhere, not that she had dug in any other sand. There were sandcastle competitions, and people came from all over to build crazy sculptures of mermaids and towers, working all day on creations that would be swept away by the tide.

They went on hikes with his dog and hers—Duffy and Wendell. It was obvious that Duffy was the smarter of the two, obeying commands and easily finding his way through the forests and meadows and sand dunes. Wendell was playful and useless, but so ridiculously cute that everyone loved him.

“Wendell and I have the same birthday,” Caroline said. “Well, we don’t actually know his exact birthday, but they rescued him as a puppy the year I was born, so we assigned him my birthday.”

“He gets around pretty well for an old dog,” Will said.

“Wendell’s not old,” Caroline objected. “I guess maybe he is, but I try not to think about that. I can’t imagine life without Wendell.”

“Then don’t,” Will said. “And then one day he’ll be gone and it’ll be the worst thing ever and you’ll get used to it.”

She wondered if that was how he felt about losing his mom. She didn’t ask, though. It was bad enough that he’d lost her. She shouldn’t make him talk about it.

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