Total pages in book: 117
Estimated words: 113934 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 570(@200wpm)___ 456(@250wpm)___ 380(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113934 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 570(@200wpm)___ 456(@250wpm)___ 380(@300wpm)
“What’s coming up?”
“In a few days, there will be a meteor shower. He was reminding me of it. Now, I just drive out a little ways and park on the side of the road or at Inks Lake State Park.”
“Does he text you what time he’ll be looking up?”
She nodded, and I saw her eyes glaze over. “Yeah. Like I said, it’s stupid.”
I reached across the table and took her hand in mine. “I don’t think it’s stupid. I actually think it’s cool that you and your brothers are so close.”
Her grin turned into a full-on smile. “It is nice, but they are still pains in my ass.”
Laughing, I motioned for her to get back to studying. “Study up, girl. Tomorrow’s test is not going to be easy.”
The way Skylar was looking at me had my pulse speeding up. I could tell she wanted to say something, but she held it back. What I wouldn’t do to get her to trust me a hundred percent.
***
Mitch and I were both jogging on the track during football practice when I motioned for him to fall back behind everyone. I asked him to help me with my plan to take Skylar out to watch the meteor shower tomorrow night.
“What do you mean, you want me to help get my sister out to Inks Lake State Park? What in the hell for?”
“I already said—to watch the meteor shower tomorrow night.”
Mitch turned to me. “Have you been talking to Skip? Did he put you up to this?”
“No. Skylar mentioned that she loved doing stuff like that with your brother. I want to surprise her by setting something up and taking her.”
He snarled his lip up. “Like the picnic?”
“Yeah. But I’m going to need you to bring her bike.”
He stopped running. “Her bike?”
Running in place, I slapped his arm. “Yep! Make sure the tires are aired up, too.”
Rolling his eyes, Mitch mumbled, “I swear, I will never understand you. Ever.”
“Get running, Woods, or you’ll be doing extra laps!”
“Shit,” Mitch mumbled before taking off in a sprint to catch up with everyone else.
I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face for the rest of practice. The idea that I could do something to make Skylar happy had me feeling like I was walking on cloud nine. The coach must have screamed at me a dozen times to get my head out of my ass.
After practice, I looked up and saw Skylar in the bleachers. She was sitting on the opposite side of the field from everyone else, and I immediately knew why. Jenny and her loud mouth would agitate her if she’d sat on the home side.
Running over, I took off my helmet, and Skylar walked down to the field.
“Hey,” she said with the cutest damn smile.
God, the things this girl did to my heart.
“Hey back atcha.”
“Smith! Get in the showers now!” Coach yelled out.
Skylar looked at Coach and scrunched up her face. “I didn’t get you in trouble, did I?”
Laughing, I said, “Nah. Besides, seeing your beautiful smile is worth it.”
Her eyes lit up, and my stomach felt like I was on a damn roller coaster.
“I have tonight off work,” she said.
My heart started beating faster, and it wasn’t from all the running I had just done in practice. “Oh, yeah?”
“I was wondering if you might…like to go to a movie? I mean, it would be a double date ’cause Mitch and Michelle would be there.”
I wiggled my eyebrows. “A date, huh?”
“A double date,” she replied with a chuckle.
“Smith! Less than thirty seconds to get your ass moving and into the shower!”
Skylar glanced over to Coach again and then back to me. She jutted her lip out into a pout and said, “You’d better go before you get in trouble.”
My heart stopped as my eyes fell to those lips. I was falling hard for Skylar, harder than I’d ever dreamed I could.
I started to run backward. Winking, I said, “Count me in!”
CHAPTER NINE
* * *
Skylar
MY HEART WAS pounding when Mitch pulled up to Wyatt’s house. The three of us walked up to the front door, and I couldn’t believe how my heart was racing.
Leaning in closer to me, Michelle said, “You should probably take a breath, so you don’t pass out when you meet his parents.”
My head jerked over to her. I hadn’t even realized I had been holding my breath. I dragged in a deep breath. “Why am I so nervous?”
“Seriously, you have to ask that, Sky? You’re meeting the parents of the guy you’re crushing on.”
“I’m not crushing on him. We’re friends, that’s all.”
She gave me a blank expression. “Uh-huh. Yeah, okay…if you say so.”
Pinching my eyebrows together, I replied, “I say so.”
Mitch rang the doorbell, and less than ten seconds later, the door opened. A beautiful woman with dark hair and the greenest of green eyes smiled at us. “Hey, kids. Come on in.”