Popsicle ☮︎︎ [Joey McIntyre]

Chapter 1 ☮︎︎ 𝕊𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕤

Chapter 1 ☮︎ 𝕊𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕤

Cape Coral, New Hampshire
Summer 1995

It was already hot as well as muggy outside. I had opened the windows in the old seaside cottage for the musty air to blow away. There was not yet any central air unit yet. I planned on installing one in. ASAP.

We had one little air conditioner in the window it had to stay in the living room window so air could flow all in the large house. If I turned on one in the bedroom then it would kick off the electric box because this old house was not really up to code yet.

Thanks Dad....

My father passed away in the fall. He left me some cash as well as my half sister Ivory. I was not at all close to her. But that was her mothers fault. She didn't like or want another child around from the previous marriage.

I get that but it kept me away from my dad and sister. Dad still paid child support. Dad still sent birthday gifts as well as Christmas gifts to. But gifts don't mean shit. I would have liked to gotten to know my dad before he died.

My former stepmom let me have the old vacation house that sat here rotting away. Dad used to visit once a summer hoping Ivory and I might come see him. I didn't feel wanted enough to do so. I wished I had.

I glanced at a photo on an in table. It was one of dad and myself when I was four. I smile. It was on a fourth of July. We had rented a boat saw the fireworks show on the lake. Then dad, mom and I had s'mores by the fire on the beach.

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"Erynn Fields, what room can I have again?" wonders my best friend Mandy. She's Amanda but she prefers Mandy. She looked as hot as I felt.

"Any of them you want upstairs. Mine is down here. Always had because I loved sleeping by the ocean. Hearing the waves. And the big old reading window I could sit in" I say with a smile.

"Fantastic! But you get to be closer to the air unit" she sighs.

"True"

I was hoping to start a job in town so I could earn more money to fix this house up. I was so grateful my best friend Mandy was moving in with me. She also said she's help me paint and fix things that she could do.

I had applied for a few jobs in town the first week we arrived here from Michigan. I hadn't saw the old neighbors next door yet and I was glad. They haven't been here in a few years.