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.”
She rolled her eyes at me and shook her head, “Girl you are a lost cause.”
I sighed and turned to Janette, “Well? Why am I supposed to care?” She just shrugged and giggled. The thing is, this wasn’t the first time this happened, I just didn’t care for gossip. I didn’t want people talking about me, so why should I want to hear about them?
We neared the beach, and the feeling of my swimsuit became more obvious to my skin. I loved to swim at the beach, I wasn’t one of those girls who could just sit still and tan for hours, like Mindy and Jan, I had to be in the water when near it and as much as it would drive Mindy crazy, that’s what I was doing today.
When we reached the thick sand of the beach I pulled of my tee-shirt over my head and kicked of my jeans to reveal the bright blue sporty two piece underneath. It was unlike Mindy’s in the way it was made for swimming and not for tanning, and when she saw it she groaned loudly. “Jules, your seriously abandoning us to go swimming?”
I tossed my hair back and grinned at her cheekily, “Duh Mindy, you brought me to the beach.”
I could hear her sigh, “Why, why this every time?”
I could hear Janettes soft chuckled response, “You did bring us to the beach, you know what she’s like.”
And then I leaped off the shore and into the waves that lapsed against it. The cool water enveloped my skin and swallowed me whole. I kicked my legs forward to propel ahead. Because of the lack of salt in the water, opening my eyes was easy, and though I couldn’t see clearly general shapes were made clear to me.
I had probably swum one-hundred feet off the shore before I brought my head up gulping for fresh air. I had over swum again without air; I tended to do that when first diving into water. I could see Janette and Mindy giggling on shore with each other.
I felt hands cover my eyes, blocking my sight. I sighed when I felt a mouth close to my ear whispering, “Guess who?”
I turned around and shoved him off me, “Get off me Kyle.”
“Jeez Princess, I wasn’t even on you,” he said, a sense of complaint in his voice.
“But you were touching me, ew,” I stated dryly.
A deep throaty chuckle reverberated through him, “You know you like me touching you Julia,” he snickered and tossed a wink at me.
A made a sound of disgust as I inched away from him, “Ew, no.”
A full out laugh busted through him, “That’s all you have,” he said forcibly in between gasps for air.
I stuck my nose up at him, “Yes actually, it is, I don’t want to talk anymore, go away.”
“This is a public beach, I don’t see your name written in this spot anywhere,” he chortled.
“Please Kyle? Just go away, I’m sure Mindy wants to talk to you, “ I stated, fully knowing that as much as Mindy crushed on him, he handled her with disgust.
He sighed, all playfulness dropping from his face, “I’ll leave if-“
“Thank god!” I yelled, interrupting him rudely.
He rolled his eyes at me, “If you kiss me.”
I made a mock sick face and pretended to hack up my lungs, “K-kiss you?” I said, trying to maintain a straight face.
“Kiss me,” he affirmed.
I broke out laughing, clutching my stomach, I gasped out between laughs, “A-are you serious?”
His face was baffled and there was no trace of a smile on his face anymore, I of course was now trying to hide my smirk as he huffed out, “Yes.”
“Sorry Kyl-ie, but I wouldn’t touch your lips with a ten-foot pole, who knows where they have been?” I could hardly hold back my laughter. Kyle was a year my senior and the schools ‘in thing,’ in fact he was so in, that most girls in my grade had even gone after him, last year at the carnival he ran the kissing booth and on the sign out sheet filled his name in for every slot.
Kyle was also my neighbor, and what do you know it, his mom was my mom’s friend, meaning I saw Kyle frequently and we were actually kind of friends. But we didn’t call each other that. I glanced in on him and he looked hurt, this was to good, “Kyle, if you really want, I’ll kiss you.”
His face lit up and he exclaimed, “Really!”
I giggled, “No.”
His face dropped again and I covered my mouth to hide the giggles and he narrowed his eyes at me, “Sorry Kyle, I gotta go, kaye?”
He nodded reluctantly and I turned away to leave a pouting Kyle behind me.