A Summer to Remember - By Jessica Gunhammer Page 0,32
the details yet?” Lily asked as soon as she picked up.
“Wow. I don’t even get a hello anymore?”
“Since you’ve been keeping everything to yourself these last few days, I don’t think you’re worthy of one anymore,” she joked. “What do you want to do today?”
“Let’s go to the pool.”
“Great! I’m about to strangle Steven. I’ll be there in about twenty minutes.”
As soon as I was out of bed and had my pool bag packed, Lily was outside my house honking, right on cue. I slid in the passenger seat of her car and we drove off. On our way there, she told me about a fight she and Steven got into over the weekend because she caught him checking out a waitress at the bar the other night, so they weren’t on speaking terms today. Bickering like this isn’t unusual for them, but Steven checking out a waitress was. Lily had always been a little insecure, which threw me for a loop because she’s gorgeous. Guys were constantly throwing themselves at her feet and she had a kickass personality, but she just didn’t see it. I guess it was true, every girl has her own insecurities.
When we got to the pool, we took turns searching for chairs while one of us held our usual spot up against the back fence. I was so anxious to tell Lily about what happened I could hardly contain myself. When she finally got back with her chair I couldn’t stand it anymore so I just blurted it out.
“Adrian asked me to move in with him!” It had been eating me up inside all night and I needed to hear somebody else’s opinion on the situation.
“He what?” Lily sat down on her chair and pulled her sunglasses down toward the tip of her nose. A few strands of hair fell out of her ponytail.
“He asked me to move in with him.”
“What did you tell him?” She didn’t seem as shocked as I thought she would be, which made me a little concerned.
“I told him I had to think about it, but it’s a little soon.” I looked at her for reassurance. “Don’t you think?”
“Well, kind of. I guess.” She shrugged and pushed her sunglasses back up on the bridge of her nose.
“What do you mean, you guess? We’ve only known each other a few weeks and he’s already asking me to move in with him!” I expected a bigger reaction out of her, but she was being nonchalant. This wasn’t helping at all!
“Yeah.” She took off her sheer cover up to reveal the red and white bikini underneath and laid back down on her chair. “But girls are getting married and pregnant after only knowing someone a few weeks these days.”
“Don’t try and put me in that category!” I was a little offended. I took off my cover up and laid back on my chair.
“I’m not, I’m just saying it could be worse. Wait. What would happen when he moves to Florida?” She looked over at me.
“He’s still going and I’m not, if that’s what you’re asking.” We’d talked about this a hundred times. You’d think she’d get how serious I was about staying here.
“Well, that’s more of a reason to try it out, then. You’re supposedly only spending this last summer with him before he leaves.”
“What do you mean, supposedly?” I was starting to get a little irritated with her.
“You really think you’re going to be able to spend all summer with him then fall hits and you’re just going to be like ‘okay bye, have a nice life.’” She laughed a little. “You know that’s not going to happen and you’re just being silly if you think it is.”
“I know it’s not going to be like that, but something is going to have to change because I’m not going with him. It makes me sick just thinking about it.” I could feel my stomach turn. If I wanted to leave this town I would’ve applied for schools out of state. The thought of leaving never even crossed my mind because I knew I would miss my friends and family too much.
“And how does it make you feel knowing that he’ll be leaving in just a few short months?” I couldn’t answer her because I knew if I did the tears I was holding back wouldn’t stay back. “That’s what I thought.”
A few hours later we packed up our stuff and walked back out to the car in the summer heat. I had a