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Author:Riehl, Bethany [Riehl, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

That night Amelia slept fitfully. Dreams danced around her subconscious, of reporters with large cameras following her around. Of parents looking down on her, of McClary calling her names. After a while she drifted into a place between sleep and wakefulness. Memories of a summer day before her junior year in high school floated to mind, playing before her closed eyes like a movie on a screen…

She couldn’t remember why she was on the day trip, other than Creed had made some crack about her never joining in on the fun. When Christy Wilson called to invite her to join a big group at the reservoir for swimming and a late night bonfire, she jumped at the chance to prove Creed wrong.

Especially when she heard that Carter Adams would be there, too.

Carter sat next to Amelia in English and they’d carefully danced around an attraction for weeks before school let out. Carter was unquestionably out of her league. A lean basketball player with a reputation nearly identical to Creed’s, Amelia dreamt as teenage girls often do, of being the one that turned him around. Of course she knew he was most likely leading her on, toying with her. But her stomach quaked whenever he looked her way, clogging all rational thought.

When she and Christy arrived at the docks, her eyes sought him out, splashing in the water with Creed and a few others. Amelia waved back when Creed greeted her, nodded to Carter, and spread her towel on the hot planks. She slipped the sundress she wore over her bathing suit down over her hips and stepped out of it before tucking it in her beach bag. Carter had eyed her appreciatively before diving in the water to race with a group of guys, including Creed.

She and Christy stretched out on their stomachs, making progress on their mid-summer tans. Amelia raised her head and rested her chin on her folded hands, watching the guys across the way easily lift themselves out of the water to the dock that floated in the middle of the reservoir. Creed sat next to Carter, joking around and eying their dock right back.

Amelia wasn’t a fool, she knew they were all elbowing each other over Christy and Vanessa and the rest in their barely-there-bikinis. She found herself wishing she were brave enough to flaunt a two piece. She blushed just thinking about it. Maybe that’s what would be the clincher for Carter.

The thought was unsettling. She’d been reading books lately about dating—or not, actually. About being mindful of the decisions she made and how they could affect her life later on.

Tired of sunbathing, tired of thinking, Amelia rose from her towel and walked to the coolers, in search of a soda. She wasn’t surprised to see that someone had loaded one with wine coolers and cheap beer. Amelia rolled her eyes.

Carter’s twin sister sat on the dock, separate from the rest of them. Amelia frowned at the droop in the girl’s shoulders. Grabbing another soda, she walked over to Taylor and lowered herself onto the dock.

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