Okay so I got excited for this and am posting it early. But I NEED a cover, and until I get one, the rest of the book will not be posted. Whoever gets me a cover will recieve a dedication. If you go to a cover maker, YOU and the COVER MAKER will both recieve a dedication.
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Chapter One: Kiss Kiss
Sometimes life can be altered for us, without our consent. Life can move so fast, so swift, that we lose our footing, the inevitable happens and we fall. I remember the summer I fell, life was moving so slowly, so lazily, and I guess that’s why it happened. When the speed picked back up, I fell; I didn’t resurface, not for a long time.
It was late summer, and it was dry. The leaves were already starting to brown in the summer’s insistent heat, I knew it would be an early winter; snow would be on the ground in mid-October. On this particular day, the day that I remember it all starting, I had been walking from the towns ice cream parlour with my two best friends, my phone was in my hand constantly sending text to my latest flavour. However, when I look back on it now, I realize that this had started long before this, probably long before I was born. Anyways, my phone was constantly buzzing and I was constantly pulling it out to text Gordan back, we had been flirting almost all day.
There’s something people usually learn about me pretty fast, I didn’t stick to relationships long, which surprised my friends they thought I was very pretty. It wasn’t because I had my fill of the relationship and skipped on to the next, I just found myself unhappy, often. I guess I hadn’t found my ‘one’ yet, and being in high school, it was unlikely that I would just yet. I didn’t like leading people to far just to break their hearts in the end; my relationships usually lasted two to three weeks before I realized I just couldn’t do it. I didn’t hop right into another one right after; in fact I cruise around enjoying single life for about a month before I finally said yes to the current boy chasing after me. Because most girls in my grade were in relationships for months before ending things, my way was confusing to them, I was quickly labeled. My new boys were now titled as my new flavour.
Gordan and I went back pretty far, in my first year of junior high, he was the ‘nerd’ that sat beside me and helped me out. We became friends. This year, after Brody last month, Gordan became my fourth relationship, kind of. People were telling me in the last few weeks that Gordy wasn’t my usual ‘flavour.’ Which I guess, considering Brody, Ajay, and Keaton, their right, but we were different. I found his glasses and dark hair cute, and already we had spent more time together. But I guess when your friends to, it does that.
I felt a tap on my arm and turned to face my friend Mindy, her dark hair was tossed up in a ponytail and she was chattering to me expressively. Of course she had caught me in a moment where I’d drifted off to space, I placed my hands on her shoulder, “Woah woah woah, Mindy, slow down. Please repeat that.”
She sighed and rolled her eyes, “Cairo, the new kid, I think he likes Stacie.”
I looked at her with a bemused expression and rolled my eyes back at her, “So? How’s that my business?”
She looked at me wide eyed and shocked, “Julia Anne James! This is gossip time, what did you think would happen if we had a girl’s day today? We’d talk about football plays and girls?”
I looked at her kind of confused and glanced over beside me to Janette for help, however, she was to busy trying to stifle giggles to help me, so, with a defeated sigh I turned over to Mindy, “I don’t know, I just don’t see why I should care who Cairo likes, I don’t even know who he is. Besides, I thought we were talk about, I don’t know, the dance coming up? I don’t see how Cairo and Stacie fit into that.”
