When You Start to Miss Me by Stacy Claflin

Author:Stacy Claflin [Claflin, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacy Claflin
Published: 2020-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Malia

My heart races as we near the fairgrounds. I’m glad Lincoln is driving this time because I’m actually nervous about my friends meeting him. They’ll love him, no doubt about that. And though they might be a little much for him all at once, I can’t see him not loving them back. But these four people have become my two favorite, but very separate, parts of my life.

Now they’re going to collide together. And meeting my friends is the equivalent to most people’s meeting the parents.

I don’t want Linc to meet my crazy family. Not that I should worry, I suppose. Our first meeting was Holden in all his glory, and Linc still likes me. Still, meeting my parents isn’t something I want to do to him. And he’s definitely not meeting my extended family. My parents are actually sane compared to them.

“You okay?” Linc’s voice brings me back to the moment.

I turn to him and smile. “How could I not be? We get to spend the whole day together.”

“You sure you don’t want to do one of our experiments today? There are going to be a lot of people to test our ideas on.”

“I don’t want to think about school today. Let’s just have fun and put everything else behind us for the day.”

“Can’t argue with that logic.” He smiles, melting my insides. If he’d asked again about the project, I’d probably give in. It’s getting harder and harder to say no to him, especially when he looks at me like that.

Linc turns back to the road and hits the gas.

Now the fair is in sight—tall rides and balloons in the distance. Not to mention all the signs pointing us there. We couldn’t get lost if we wanted to.

A text comes in from Samara letting me know they’re stuck in traffic and to go in without them. They’ll catch up to us.

“Everything okay?” Linc asks.

I update him on my friends’ tardiness.

He takes my hand. “Just gives us a little more alone time.”

“We’ll have to get a bunch of selfies.”

“Are you going to put that on your social media?”

“Maybe.” I say it in a teasing tone. “Don’t think you can replace your brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s photo though.”

“I wouldn’t dream of it.”

I laugh, but I’m already planning on replacing it later after I’ve had a chance to find the best selfie of us. I’m picturing one on a Ferris wheel with as much of the fair behind us as possible, but maybe I’ll have a favorite somewhere else.

We pull into the parking lot and follow the long line of cars until we find a place to park.

I step outside and am greeted by the scent of manure. “We must’ve parked by the farm animals.”

Linc steps out and wrinkles his nose. “You think?”

We share a laugh and make our way down the long aisle before we come to another. My legs are going to be tired before we even get there. But then a cross between a tractor and a bus stops.

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