"Clear blue water, high tide came and brought you in. Skies grew darker, currents swept you out again."
Lainey Beaumont is your typical girl next door. Kind, charming, and extremely intelligent. She is attending the University of Michigan in hopes...
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"In between being young and being right. You were my Versailles at night, it was the fourth of July."
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The Fourth of July has quickly become one of my favorite holidays. Only because the Hughes' backyard is filled to the brim with some of the coolest people I have ever met. Hockey players and other athletes alike are spilling from the house into the yard. Quite a few people have made a home on the beach. Kids and dogs running everywhere.
We've been out here all day. Stuffing our faces with food and drinks while the sun burns its presence across our skin. Currently, I have my arms around Jack's neck while his thumbs dig into my hips. The material of my jean shorts are the only thing preventing him from grabbing handfuls of my bare skin.
His eyes are hooded as he looks down at me. "Are you having fun?"
"This is probably one of the best days of my life." I respond back with full honesty. I've met some incredible people and have made so many new friends. I took shots with the hottest athletes I have ever been near and I still get the wonderful view of said athletes parading around shirtless. Thank god it's hot today.
"Stick around, we do this every year." I can feel Jack's hand rise higher as he fiddles with the long strands of my hair, reminding me once again to get a hair cut.
"You are seriously stuck with me. I fucking love you guys." I'm drunk but the statement is true. These people are my new found family and I absoulety love them. I'm still not entirely sure where I'm going after the summer ends but I do know that these people will forever be in my life.
Jack's lips tilt into his signature smirk, if I didn't think of him as only a friend I would drop to my knees right now. I'm not stupid enough to deny that he is hot. Jim and Ellen should win a medal for their contribution of not one but three gorgeous, talented sons. I should thank her the next time I see her.
"Speaking of being stuck with us, what's going on between you and Luke?"
Rolling my head back a little I let a low groan slip past my lips. "You are such a gossip. I don't want to talk about that right now I'm still trying to figure it out myself."
I'm hoping so desperately that Jack won't push me any further because in the absolute sloshed state that I am in I know that I will spill my every thought and feeling. Jack doesn't know it but I am teetering on the edge of a full breakdown.
I don't really have anyone to talk about this with. I love Hallie but I know she is 100% on Luke's side. From the minute I met her she's been nothing but a ride or die for Luke. I know he told her what happened between us because Hallie looks at me like she knows all my secrets.
She hasn't treated me any differently but if it comes down to picking a side, even the smallest things like Luke and I arguing over which ice cream flavor is the best, Hallie always picks whatever Luke says. It's sweet that he has someone that loves him that much but it also sucks because Hallie is the only other person I could tell that would give me real advice.
