SUMMER SKIN (UNIVERSITY DISTRICT #2) BY DANI LAKELY – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Dani Lakely
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- Genre: Contemporary romance
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“LET ME SEE your class schedule,” Chase’s sister Brooklyn
demanded, grabbing the folded piece of paper from his hands and peering at
it intently. “Pfft, we have, like, none of the same teachers.”
She slid the sheet back to him and shoved a french fry into her mouth.
“Fucking new schools suck,” she mumbled through a mouthful of food,
lightly kicking at his shin from underneath the cafeteria table.
“Ow! What was that for?”
She glanced behind him. “Redirected aggression.”
“Mad at Mom?” It would be fair.
“Pissed at the entire world,” Brooklyn corrected. “Have you taken a
look around? Humans are completely shit for brains.”
Chase considered his sister for a moment. The wisp of a girl she still
was at fifteen-years-old. Box-dyed black hair with a burgundy streak, and
dark eyeliner she’d spent god knows how long drawing on in the bathroom
that morning while he waited, and waited, for a shower. The now toofamiliar perma-scowl she’d worn on her face since they moved to
Washington state a few weeks back.
Still, beneath the teenage fury, there were reminders of the little girl
who wrote letters to fairies and left them under her pillow at night. The
sister who served Chase Play-Doh pancakes in bed, asked him to read to her
when she had a nightmare, followed him through forests, and rivers, and out
to the sea. Who refused to blow out the candles on her own birthday cake
unless Chase got a wish too.
For the thousandth time, an ache for a more stable life grew deep in his
chest. A life for Brooklyn that hadn’t been so relentlessly shaped by their
mother’s reckless choices.
Forcing his face to relax into a grin, he told her, “You’re too young to
be so jaded,” snatching a fry off her plate and swiping it through ketchup
before popping it into his mouth.
“Only two years younger than you are,” she reminded him.
“I’m too young to be so jaded.”
“Yeah, well.” She pushed her fries towards him to finish off. “Can you
blame us?”
Not really. This high school made their third new school in the same
number of years. Luckily for Chase, this was his senior year, and his last
trip around the school track. But for Brooklyn …
“There’s still good people in this world,” Chase told her, using his
thumb to swipe a spot of ketchup from his chin.
“You,” she said.
“Me what?” he asked, looking up to meet her gaze.
“You are one.” She stared at him with cat-drawn-eyes over the grubby
cafeteria table. “A good person.”
He kicked her lightly in the shin with the toe of his shoe.
“Hey!” Brooklyn cried. “What was that for?”
He lifted a shoulder, a grin playing at his lips. “Inability to handle
positive emotions.”
“You’re such a weirdo.”
Chase opened his mouth to retaliate, but his student guide, Andi,
appeared at their table before any comeback could be had. She looked back
and forth between Chase and Brooklyn like she was trying to pinpoint
exactly who he’d chosen to latch himself onto on the very first day of
school.
“My sister,” he said, helping Andi out, “Brooklyn.”
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