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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in her hand. Every time someone came to talk to her, she smiled with her mouth and not her eyes. She wasn't jus

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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