Skating With Hearts
yes were fixed on her phone as if it were the only thing keeping her from unraveling. The wind tugged at her braid and the
ike storm dressed i
noticed everything
cracked open like a raw wound under the weight
mpossibly magnetic girl. I still remember the summer she followed Ethan to practice every day and tried to skateboard to impress us and t
ooked and drew a ti
d, "Gross, Ryan," but I caugh
ad haunted m
ering for him like he hung the damn moon, she haunted me even though I k
thought she'd never look at me that way. Because Caleb
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t keep preten
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in her hand. Every time someone came to talk to her, she smiled with her mouth and not her eyes. She wasn't jus
er. God, di
t not like this. Not with whispers still floating in the smoke of the fire p
circus of half-sincere a
ed better
r tha
done pretending I couldn't
as, one of the rookies who nudge
as I reluctantly tore
yan. You've been staring since s
look. "Mind y
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up,
I wondered if he was probably already planning
thinking? This wasn't just any girl. This was Skylar Hayes, Ethan's little sister. The girl
thing I have longed