Our Summer
Chapter 47
Once
Lucas put his arm around me, the guy immediately stopped flirting
with me, which I was thankful for. Because of my lack of
experience, I had no idea what to say to him.
They talked for awhile and then I got a
text from Jamie, asking where we were. A few minutes after I
replied, she showed up with Alex in tow.
A few more people gathered around us, and
talked for awhile. I was relieved when Lucas dragged me to go on
another ride with him. I didn’t like talking to people I
didn’t know.
The day passed surprisingly fast and when
the sun began to set, Lucas led me up the beach away from the
crowd. We went past his house and a little further down until we
got to an old wooden dock.
He took my hand as we walked down to the
end of it and sat down. My feet just barely brushed the surface
of the water.
“Me and Brayden used to come down
here all the time when we were little,” he smiled and
stared out at the horizon, lost in a memory.
“Really?” I asked,
softly.
“Yeah. We loved it,” he
looked at me. “I’ve always wanted to watch the
fireworks from here,” he whispered, pushing a strand of
hair off my face. I bit my lip and looked down.
“Why do you do that?” he
asked, an amused smile lighting his face.
“What?” I asked, feeling my
face heat up.
“It’s like you’re shy
or something,” he said, watching my face carefully. My
cheeks were burning.
“Or something,” I
whispered.
“And what exactly would that
be?” he asked, curiously. I shook my head and looked away,
unable to answer. There was just no simple way to tell this guy
– this guy who could make me smile without doing anything,
who gave me goose bumps when it was at least eighty degrees
outside, and who I was completely comfortably yet nervous around
at the same time - that even though I’ve barely known him
for two weeks, I think I’m falling in love with
him.
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Our Summer
Chapter 46
“Oh, hey Lucas,”
the guy in front of us turned. Breanna turned too. I could feel
Lucas tense up beside me. I slid my hand into his as he greeted
them. I saw Breanna’s eyes flicker towards out hands and
then back up to my face. She bit her lip and looked
away.
Lucas introduced me to the guy, Jace.
They struck up a conversation, which neither Breanna nor I joined
in. Finally, the line moved up and our turn
came.
I had a lot more fun on the ride than I
expected. I was laughing most of the time.
“Now aren’t you glad I made
you do that?” Lucas teased when we got off. I was impressed
at how well he was talking bumping into Breanna and
Jace.
“No,” I joked. I purposely
bumped into his side, and he wrapped his arm around my
waist.
“You’re a liar,” he
accused. I laughed and shook my head.
“You’re the liar,” I
leaned my head on his shoulder. We sat down together on a picnic
table.
“I would never lie to you,”
he whispered into my ear. I shivered as goose bumps covered my
arms. “Are you cold?” he asked, a little confused
since the sun was still high in the sky.
“No,” I assured him with a
smile. He looked at me quizzically, but fortunately he
didn’t say anything else about it.
A few minutes later, a guy I recognized
from Lucas’s – our – birthday party came over
and greeted Lucas. He said hi to me.
“You’re Natalie, right? I
remember you,” he said, giving me a flirty smile. I was
surprised. Guys didn’t usually remember me, and guys
definitely didn’t flirt with me.
“Yeah,” I smiled, nervously,
racking my brain for his name.
“So a pretty girl like you probably
already has someone to watch the fireworks with tonight,”
he said. I looked at Lucas, confused. I didn’t know there
were fireworks tonight.
“Yeah, we’re probably going
to watch them with Jamie,” Lucas dropped his arm over my
shoulders, seemingly casual, but I knew what he was doing. I was
his girl now, and he wanted this guy – whose name
I could not remember for the life me – to know
it.
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Our Summer
Chapter 45
Once Jamie finished venting
about Brayden, we went swimming for awhile. After a few hours, we
headed back to the house for lunch. When we finished eating, I
changed into sweats and sat down in the living room to read while
Jamie watched TV.
“Hey, babe,” Lucas walked in
about twenty minutes later. I smiled and got butterflies in my
stomach. “Go get dressed.”
“Someone’s pushy,” I
teased, closing my book.
“I’m sorry,” he
grinned. “Please go get dressed.”
“What’re we doing?” I
asked.
“I wanted to take you down to the
fair,” he said and slid his hands in his pockets. I smiled;
it was cute when he did that.
“Okay. Give me a few
minutes,” I set my book on an end table and headed to my
room.
I picked out a purple plaid baby doll
tank top, a pair of jean shorts, and flip flops. I brushed my
hair and put a purple headband in. After a few moments, I decided
not to put any makeup on.
It only took me about ten minutes to get
ready and when I came back into the living room, Lucas was
sitting on the couch with Jamie.
“I’ll probably come up later
with Alex,” she told us before we left. “Keep your
phone with you so I can find you, Nat.”
“’Kay, I will. See you
later!”
Lucas and I walked hand in hand down to
the beach to the fair. When we got there, he bought us a funnel
cake to share. He couldn’t believe it when I told him it
was the first time I’d ever had one.
“One year,” he told me,
“all I ate one day was these – and trust me, a twelve
year old boy can down a lot of them.”
“How’d that work out for
you?” I laughed.
“I threw up,” he said,
sadly.
“Bet you learned your lesson,
huh?”
“Nope,” he grinned and shoved
a huge bit in his mouth. I rolled my eyes at
him.
A few minutes later, after we finished
eating, Lucas talked me into going on a ride with him. We got in
line behind a couple our age. After a moment, I realized why the
girl seemed familiar. It was Breanna.
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Our Summer
Chapter 44
“What
happened?” Jamie exclaimed. Brayden
cringed.
“That bad?” he asked, sitting
down in a chair.
“Yeah, kind of,” she
replied.
“I feel like s**t,” he ran
his hands through his messy hair.
“You
look like s**t,
too,” Lucas told him. I slapped his leg and Brayden gave
him a dirty look. “Sorry,” he mumbled, ducking his
head. I tried not to smile at how adorable he
looked.
“What time did you come home last
night?” Jamie asked. Brayden shrugged.
“Don’t
know.”
Jamie rolled her eyes. “What did
you do to your face?”
Brayden shrugged again. “Got in a
fight,” he answered.
“Well, obviously. With
who?”
Brayden shrugged once more in response to
Jamie’s question.
“Whatever,” she shook her
head and stood up. “I’m going down to the beach. Nat,
you want to come?”
“Sure.” I got up and went to
my room to change into my swimsuit.
Rather than go in the water when we got
out to the beach, Jamie and I sat on our towels and
talked.
“I don’t know what
Brayden’s problem is. He’s never like this!”
she complained.
“Like
what?”
“Well, he’s never been in a
fight before, that I know of, at least. And when he punched
Lucas, that was bulls**t,” she said.
“What did he say when you went up
to talk to him after that?” I asked.
“Pretty much exactly what he said
about his black eye earlier. Absolutely
nothing.”
“He’s usually not like that,
though?” I said, trying to defend him while also asking
Jamie if it were true.
“Yeah, but he still almost never
hangs out with us. All he does is sit in his room since Addy
broke up with him.”
I shrugged. I couldn’t really say
much. After all, I’ve never seen him act
differently.
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Our Summer
Chapter 43
The
next morning, I slept in until almost eight. When I headed out to
the kitchen, I realized I was the only kid awake. I wondered what
time Brayden and Jamie had gotten home last
night.
I sat in the living room for awhile until
Jamie came out and sat next to me. She looked tired, but
blissfully happy.
“Good morning,” I
said.
“Why’d you leave last
night?” she asked curiously.
“Got bored,” I shrugged.
“Where’d you and Alex go?” I asked, trying not
to sound annoyed that she had ditched me.
“Nowhere,” she smiled giddily
– was she blushing?
“Ooh,” I pushed her shoulder
gently and wiggled my eyebrows.
“What?” she
laughed.
“You left, too, didn’t
you?” I realized.
“Maybe – but not as early as
you,” she said. I made a face at her.
“So where’d you
go?”
“Just back to his house,” she
smiled. I knew there was more to the story.
“And?” I
prompted.
“And nothing!” she squealed.
I rolled my eyes, not believing it for a moment. “Shut
up,” she mumbled. I laughed. “It’s not like you
can say anything!” she retorted. I rolled my
eyes.
“We watched a movie,” I told
her.
“You’re so lame,” she
told me. I shrugged. I didn’t care if I was lame or not
– last night was a lot of fun.
The two of us quieted when Lucas came
down the stairs.
“Morning, sleepyhead,” I
teased him. He smiled at me and sat down next to
me.
“Where’s Brayden?”
Jamie asked.
“I don’t know,” Lucas
dropped his arm around my shoulders. “Probably still
sleeping.”
“He came home, didn’t
he?” Jamie sounded worried.
“I heard him come up,” Lucas
assured her. “Weren’t you with
him?”
“I left,” she told him
casually. Lucas raised his eyebrows at me, and I
shrugged.
“Do I want to know?” he
asked.
“Probably not,” I told him.
He squeezed my shoulder and smiled.
“Shut up,” Jamie hit me with
a pillow. I laughed.
“So abusive!” I
teased.
I heard someone coming down the stairs
and looked over. It was Brayden. When we saw his face, we all
fell silent in surprise. His entire left eye was swollen and
bruised.
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Our Summer
Chapter 42
About
ten minutes later, Lucas pulled up to the curb in his mom’s
car. I shamefully slid into the front seat.
“Did you tell anyone you were
leaving?” he asked.
“No,” I mumbled. He pulled
out his phone and sent a quick text. Then he pulled the car away
from the curb.
“Are you okay?” he asked,
glancing at me, concerned. I nodded.
“I’m fine,” I assured
him.
“Not what you expected?” He
took my hand and gave it a sympathetic squeeze.
“I was ditched and then hit on by a
drunk guy who almost threw up on me,” I replied, bluntly.
Lucas cringed.
“You weren’t even there that
long,” he stated. I pulled off my shoes.
“I know. Thanks for coming to get
me,” I sighed.
“Don’t worry about it,”
he gave me a sweet smile. “Tell you what,” he pulled
into the driveway. “I’ll go make some popcorn and you
pick out a movie. My mom’s got some chick flicks
you’d probably like,” he rolled his eyes. I smiled a
little.
“Okay,” I said, liking the
plan. “Lucas,” I put my hand on his arm as he started
to get out of the car. He stopped and turned back towards
me.
“Yeah?”
“You’re amazing,” I
told him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He gave me a smile and
then got out of the car.
I followed him inside, and then I
went into the living room to pick the movie while he went to the
kitchen to make some popcorn. After a few minutes, I decided on
The Notebook, despite the fact that I’ve seen it a
million times before.
Lucas teased me a little bit on my
choice, but he put the DVD in and hit play. As the commercials
played, we got comfortable on the couch
together.
He had turned off the lights, and by the
time the movie was half over, I was almost asleep. Before it was
three quarters of the way over, I was out cold. The next thing I
remembered was Lucas shaking me awake.
“Movie’s over,” he
whispered.
“What did you think?” I
mumbled, sitting up and rubbing my eyes. He looked at me with the
edges of his lips turned up in a hint of a
smile.
“It was good,” he admitted
and kissed my forehead. “Let’s get you to bed,”
he said. He stood and helped me up, and then he walked me to the
door of my room.
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Our Summer
Chapter 41
When
we got to the house, the sun had begun to set, and the party was
already in full swing.
We walked past a couple making out on the
porch on our way in, and I looked away uncomfortably. Not long
after we entered the crowded, smoke-filled house, a guy came over
and greeted Brayden, and the two disappeared somewhere. Now it
was just me and Jamie.
When I saw Alex walk over, I knew that
soon it would just be me. They started talking, and I stood there
feeling like a third wheel.
Awhile later, Jamie told me she was going
to go get something to drink. Alex tagged along. She said
she’d be back in a few minutes, but fifteen minutes later,
I was pretty convinced that I wouldn’t be seeing either of
them for the rest of the night.
“Hey, I know you,” a
guy’s voice said from behind me. I turned. It was one of
Brayden’s friends from the birthday party. I groaned
inwardly. “You’re Natalie, right?” He was drunk
already. I thought about lying for a moment but decided against
it.
“Yeah,” I forced a smile. For
the life of me, I couldn’t remember what his name
was.
“I remember you,” he grinned.
“Why don’t you come dance with me?” he stepped
towards me and tried to take my hand. I stepped backwards quickly
and bumped into someone.
“Watch where you’re
going!” The guy said angrily. I’d made him spill his
beer down his shirt.
“I’m
sorry!”
“Don’t worry about
them,” Brayden’s friend slurred. “Hey,
weren’t we going to dance?” he looked
confused.
“Actually, I don’t really
want – “
Before I could finish, he curled over and
threw up on the floor next to me. I gagged and rushed out of the
house, thankful he had missed my new shoes.
I started walking down the street and
realized I had no idea where I was going. I stopped and looked
around. I didn’t recognize anything. I pulled out my phone
and called the beach-house.
“Hello?” I was grateful to
hear Lucas’ voice.
“Hey, it’s Natalie,” I
bit my lip.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” he
said, suddenly alert.
“Nothing, I was just – I was
wondering if – is there any way you could come get
me?”
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Our Summer
Chapter 40
The
next few days passed similarly. When people were around, Lucas
stuck to the more subtle ways of touching me, but when we were
alone, he was constantly hugging me and holding my hands,
although he didn’t kiss me again.
Then Friday, the night of the big party,
came around. The fair had started in the early afternoon, and
before the party, Jamie and I walked down.
We didn’t do much except eat some
cotton candy that Alex bought for us. We headed back to the house
around suppertime.
After we ate, Jamie and I went to get
ready. Jamie helped me pick out my outfit – short
white shorts, a bright blue halter top with a cute beaded front,
wedges that were the same blue, and some earrings that matched
the beading on the top. She dressed likewise.
“Are you sure I look okay?” I
asked for the third time.
“Yes, Natalie. You look
great,” Jamie said as she finished straightening her hair.
I sighed.
“Maybe I shouldn’t go.”
I’d never been to a party before, and with the knot in my
stomach, I didn’t know if I wanted to change that. Jamie
gave me a look.
“You’re going,” she
said firmly. I sighed again.
After what seemed like forever, it was
finally time to go. When Jamie and I walked into the kitchen,
Lucas looked up and caught my eye, but he quickly looked away
again.
“You ready?” Brayden, who was
sitting next to Lucas, asked.
“Let’s go,” Jamie said.
Lucas wasn’t going.
As I followed Jamie out the door, I took
one last look at Lucas, still sitting alone at the island,
holding his glass of water in his hand.
I shook my head and followed Jamie out to
the car that Brayden and Lucas now shared – not that either
of them used it much. When you lived right on the beach like
that, everything that you can do in a town like this is just a
few steps out your back door.
I slid into the backseat and tried not to
think about Lucas as Brayden pulled out of the
driveway.
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Our Summer
Chapter 39
We
both stared at each other for a few moments, before smiles spread
slowly across each of our faces. His hands were on my neck, just
at my jaw line, and his thumbs gently brushed over my cheeks. My
hands rested on his muscular biceps. He slid his arms around my
waist and pulled me into a tight hug. He laughed. I pulled back
enough to see his face.
“What’s so funny?” I
asked.
“Nothing. Everything,” he
contradicted himself, pulling me tight again.
“You’re always laughing, and
I don’t know why!” I accused, with a smile
myself.
“Is there something wrong with
that?” he finally let me go, and stood back a little, with
his arms still at my waist.
“No,” I smiled, and I know I
blushed. “I like it when you
laugh.”
“Well, that’s good,” he
took a small step toward me and leaned his forehead against mine.
“It’s cute when you do that,” he said, touching
my check.
“Do what?” I asked. My face,
by now, was surely fire-engine red.
“Blush,” he said softly, and
came ever closer. I glanced down at my feet, digging my toes into
the sand.
“Are you nervous?” he
whispered.
“No,” I
denied.
“Then look at
me.”
I did as he said, just to prove I
wasn’t nervous – although the butterflies in my
stomach said otherwise. My gaze was instantly caught by the
blue-green beauty of his eyes. I noticed for the first time that
there were also tiny flecks of grey, making them all the more
attractive.
This time I stepped closer, and our
bodies were pressed tightly together. I found that it was getting
a little harder to breath.
“Natalie,” he whispered,
taking my head in his hands and tilting it upward. I loved the
way my name sounded coming from those lips.
“Lucas,” I breathed, and my
eyes flitted to his perfect lips. They were coming closer and
closer to my own. There we so close, almost
there…
“Lucas!”
We jumped apart guiltily, but Lucas took
my hand as Brayden jogged up.
“Hey, you guys want to watch a
movie with us?” he asked, glancing at our intertwined hands
and then up to my face. I looked down to the sand,
uncomfortable.
“Sure,” Lucas decided.
“We’ll be up in a few
minutes.”
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