Summers are inspired by romance.
Summers never can make one last.
Not when you are young. Not when fate won't help you hold onto it. But sometimes fate decides to bring a former love back to you.
Now is his chance. He's gonna love her for a lifetime...
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Chapter 5 ☮︎︎ 𝔽𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔
I was off work for the day. I managed to get alot done around our place. Mandy was at work. I was home alone. Joey hadn't bothered me since his last little outburst. He knew I was still upset with him.
I could only hope by the time he was off jet setting around the world on another tour then I would be long forgotten again. Like always. It sucked because I always missed him.
I missed us.
And I knew he didnt give a damn. He only was thinking about me now because he was here and he saw me the other day. I knew very well I never passed his mind. One day my broken heart would heal.
But it was going to take a lot of time to do that. It was a nice day out. I spent most of my day here in my stuffy of house getting rid of clutter that my dad had held onto for all these years.
I needed a break. I get some shorts and a tank top on then I do some warm ups before I go jog down the beach for a little bit. It was supposed to storm out later that night here.
I go at a slow pace jogging down the beach. Then work my legs into a faster one. The wind from the water beside me felt good in my hair as I ran.
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"Erynn!"
I hear someone calling out to me. I glance back already knowing who it was. Joe. I groan as I pretend not to hear him. I run faster.
"Hey! Erynn! Wait!" he calls from behind me.
He is faster than I thought. We soon are racing each other. Just running down the beach as though we were both after a medal at the end of it. Suddenly he stops me. Nearly causing me to fall over myself. Grabbing my arm.
"We are going to have this out once and for all Erynn. You hear me? We can't keep doing this. We are going to see each other alot more. We can move on then act like decent human beings" he breaths out as we catch our breath from running.
"We don't have to do anything" I state sternly. "I have nothing more to say to you"
"I beg to differ with that" he huffs out as his blue eyes flash with annoyance in them at me.
"Joe, please just leave me alone! I have done fine without you in my life. You, clearly have done well without me in yours. Let's leave it at that! Why are you even back here anyway?" I demand to know.
"Well, my folks want to sell the place. But we needed a place to crash for a break. I bought it from them. I plan to let the other guys use it for their families whenever they want to. When I am not here. That's why Jordan and John came. To check it out" explains Joey. "I was very sorry to hear your dad passed away. My mom told me"
"Thanks. He left me this crap hole to fix up" I sigh.
"If you and your friend need help we can help you out" he offers. "John is a great handyman type"
"Thanks but no thanks. As I said Joe, I don't want you back in my life. My life is fine the way it is" I say sternly. Hoping he would take a hint.
"You, are just afraid to find out the truth. You, know there is so much we have yet to talk about" he softly says.
"Remember when, you promised that you would always stay in my life? That you would be there? You'd write me. Call me when you began your new boy band life. I remember. You didn't keep your word Joe. We lost touch. I tried and I tried. Every time I held on you let go. I can't hold on anymore" I say to him. Tears surface in my eyes and I blinked them back.
"Erynn, I did! I called. Your dad would say you were out! I wrote all the time! You never wrote me back!" he lies to me. I fume with anger. I shake my head.
"Dad would have told me that you called me. I was home! You never called you never sent me letters or postcards. I tried to wait for you Joe! For nothing! To watch other girls go after you! For you to break my heart! I can't...this is really it. I'm sorry Joe but I can't relive this with you" I sigh feeling defeated.
"Erynn, you call me a liar. When you know I never once have lied to you in the past. I am telling you. I wish...I wish you could see the truth" he stammers.
"I can't do this right now" I say. Thunder booms over head in the skies. I run back to the house. The rain begins to pelt down on me. I go in and have to change clothing.
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I head back to my dad's room to clean out more junk. Joey said he wrote me letters here. I never got any. He never called. He had to be lying. But what did he have to gain by lying about it?
I throw stuff out of dad's closet. Soon I find a stack of letters. Postcards. Of all the odd things! It was addressed to me. From all over the world. From Joey! I gasped. Tears come to me.
Why had my dad lied? Why did he keep these from me? I thought he liked Joey. I couldn't believe the timing of finding these right now.
I open up a letter.
Dear Erynn,
Being on tour is great. I have gotten to see so much of the world out there. But I wish I could see it with you. I know how much you long to see England. One day I swear I will bring you here. I hope your dad will let me see you when I get home. I tried to call. But I guess I got the time difference wrong. I woke your dad up. He was furious with me. He said you had been crying over missing me. He asked me to stop calling as much that it would make things easier on you to move on. But I thought we agreed to see each other long distance. You never told me you wanted to see other people yet. Please write me back. I will be at this address for a week here. I miss you so much. I hope you miss me. I can't wait to go home to see you...
Yours Joey
My hands shake as I read over everything he sent. My dad had not wanted us together! He was the reason I lost Joey! I feel tears come to me. I had to explain this to Joey. And at least apologize for what my dad had done in the past to keep us apart!
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