The Right Way by Katie Ashley

Author:Katie Ashley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katie Ashley Productions

Chapter Fifteen: Jonathan

Three Months Later

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I was in love with a girl. One who made my heart flip-flop whenever she reached out for me. One with chubby cheeks and a gummy grin.

Evie was the sun to my world—my world revolved completely around her. She truly was the sun—the only real bright light in my life. Sure, there was the upcoming football season to think of, especially since I would be a senior, but it paled in comparison.

She was the air I breathed.

I could be having the shittiest day imaginable and one smile from her would change everything. Before she was born, I had to make myself go home on the weekends. Now I found myself constantly working out scenarios of how I could spend time with her not just during the weekends, but during the week as well. I was becoming a stranger most nights in the dorms, and I’d have to get up at the ass crack of dawn to beat the rush hour traffic back into the city for

class.

The more time I spent with Evie meant the more time I spent with Presley. And out of nowhere, that became problematic. One day Presley and I were just going about our lives as friends. Then like the flip of a switch, something changed in the way I saw her. The kiss at Christmas . . . It was so fucking weird. I’d relived that brief peck on the cheek, and it wasn’t even reciprocated. Yet the look on her face . . . confusion . . . but was it almost surprise? Like a good surprise? Needless to say, there had been no more of that. We’d both been pretty shell-shocked throughout Christmas, the first without Jake. Especially for Mom and Dad. I thought I’d feel alone and miss him something horrible. But I’d had Evie, and she helped heal like nothing else.

But then there had been Presley too. It was almost like she was a stranger to me. Someone new to discover. She didn’t have a past with Jake. She was just here with me in the present.

Sure, I’d been physically attracted to her before, but I suddenly found myself connecting with her on an emotional level. I blamed the fact I even used the phrase “connecting on an emotional level” on Ziegler. Yeah, I was still seeing him. He was becoming one of my longest relationships. Even though football was over, I still had winter workouts, so it was still hard finding time to talk. Of course, I’d thought by now I wouldn’t have as much to talk about, but with the one year anniversary of Jake’s death coming up, my progress had started “regressing” as Zeigler called it.

In true avoidance, I had yet to tell him of my evolving feelings. I could barely admit it to myself, least of all anyone else. In spite of what I might or might not have been feeling for Presley, there was no way I could act on it. Every time I thought of something with her, I didn’t just think about dishonoring Jake.

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