Cool Girl Summer by Amber Eve EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Amber Eve
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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It’s twenty minutes to midnight on New Year’s Eve, and I’m thinking
about the Ugly Sisters from Cinderella. Or one of them, at least.
Okay, it’s me. I’m thinking about me. I’m the Ugly Sister; only Cinderella
isn’t actually my sister — she’s my best friend. And her name isn’t
Cinderella, funnily enough; it’s Chloe. Oh, and while we’re at it, we’re not
in some fancy palace, either. We’re in a ‘fun’ pub called Diamonds in
Margate.
No one ever writes fairy tales about places like that, though, do they?
Even so, everything else more or less scans. There’s even a handsome
prince, who’s currently standing by the bar, looking like he’s about to film a
commercial for an aftershave called Titan, or Conquest, or something else
reeking of toxic masculinity. He’s got one of those ‘chiseled’ kind of faces
that are so perfect they almost don’t look real, and if I were to get close
enough, I just know he’d smell like leather and wood-smoke, and all the
broken hearts he’s left behind him.
Not that I’m going to get close enough, obviously. My heart is in no
danger, because I know I’m just here in my role of Ugly Sister — I mean,
friend — and the first rule of the Ugly Friend is ‘Know Thine Place’. Sure
enough, before I can finish the sticky glass of liquid that passes for wine
here in Diamonds, Chloe’s grabbing my hand and pulling me up onto the
tiny dance-floor that’s supposed to be the ‘fun’ part of this place.
“Come on, Summer,” she hisses, flipping her glossy blonde hair over her
shoulder, then checking to make sure Prince Charming has noticed. “Just
one dance, I promise.”
I follow her reluctantly into the crowd. I hate New Year’s Eve. All that
pressure to have the best night ever. All those random strangers you have to
hug. The blind panic that descends when the countdown begins and you’re
forced to stand there pretending to be having fun when all you can think
about is how you can literally feel time running out on another year in
which nothing really happened, and oh my God, what if this is it? What if
you never manage to do all the things you wanted to do with your life, and
you just find yourself standing here again this time next year, as if no time
at all has passed and you’re still —
“Summer! Focus!”
Chloe snaps her freshly manicured fingers in my face to get my attention.
The nails are long and pointed, like weapons, so there’s no ignoring them.
“This isn’t the time for one of your existential crises,” she yells above the
thump of the music. “It’s New Year’s Eve!”
“New Year’s Eve is the perfect time for an existential crisis,” I tell her,
shaking my hips to the beat. “I’ve had three today already. I might try to fit
in another one before bed.”
Chloe rolls her eyes, then suddenly narrows them as something behind
me catches her attention.
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