The Wallace Girl by Eliot Scott & Anne Eliot & Ginger Scott

Author:Eliot Scott & Anne Eliot & Ginger Scott [Scott, Eliot & Eliot, Anne & Scott, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense
Goodreads: 48325781
Publisher: Butterfly Books, LLC
Published: 2019-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

13.

Alex, Last Day of Summer, Before Freshman Year.

“What? You only told them yesterday? No. Impossible.” Jojo’s eyes are wide, her voice sounds mad. She’s flat on her back next to me, and we’re drying off in the sun from our latest swim. She’s also looking over at me like she doesn’t know me at all. Like I’ve hurt her. I don’t like how this feels.

“Yes.” I push on with what I’ve revealed to her so I can make her understand—make her smile come back. “Yesterday was the first time I mentioned you to my family but I have my reasons—very good reasons.”

While she’s rummaging around in my bag for the cookies I’ve brought, I silently consider how father was also equally pissed off that I’d kept Jojo a secret from him for so long. I could tell her that he was oddly pleased about my announcement, but for some reason, I feel like I shouldn’t share that either.

Unlike when Jojo told her mom and dad about me, her last name Wallace had hardly raised the brows on my father’s forehead.

But Grady— he freaked about it. He started popping off at the mouth, immediately trashing anything beautiful I said about Jojo and the Wallaces, and started up a whole bunch of bullshit-tantrum-style rantings by shouting out that I’d been “fucking a Wallace chick up at the lake all summer while Father had him in an endless SAT study course,” and how “It just wasn’t fair!” Just like it wasn’t fair when Father gave me the lake.

I barely survived telling them more about Jojo after that. Because even Father had started making cracks about me sticking it to a hot little number up at the lake. He asked pointed questions, sneering and egging Grady on, about how I was “more of a man” than Grady. He joked that the leaf, which I guess is me, didn’t fall far from the tree. He said I was just like him, and that he’d fucked a whole cheerleading squad, one by one, like picking apples off a tree, during his summer before high school.

At that point, both my father and brother made my summer with Jojo suddenly feel so wrong, so dirty—everything that it wasn’t. I was red-hot pissed off, and I almost punched both of them in the face, starting with my dad!

Thank God all of my training about being a “good Sincliair” kept my shit under control. I managed to defend Jojo’s honor with politely said words and a heart full of rage—not with my curled up fists screaming let go.

I know if I would have hit my father and then gone after my brother’s face—or worse, hit my father in front of my brother—I’d be in the hospital right now and not here, swimming at the lake, that’s for sure.

These are all things I don’t ever want to reveal to Jojo, but also things I think I need to eventually tell her. Because now—now that school starts tomorrow, and even though she’s

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