This Summer
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  • Reads 605
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  • Parts 14
  • Time 1h 19m
Ongoing, First published Feb 20, 2015
He lightly brushed his thumb along her cheek wiping away a tear that escaped from her eye. His hand lingered on her face. She held her breath and looked into his eyes. He brought his forehead down to hers so that their faces were inches apart. She had stopped crying and hadn’t noticed that her heart was beating furiously against her chest.
"Hope." She heard him whisper against her cheek. She let out a sigh and closed her eyes.
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Hope Adams spent every Summer at the beach house with her family since she was a little girl. 


Liam Smith used to spend every Summer at the beach house, but then his parents got divorced and nothing was the same. This Summer, Liam and his mom return to the house. Hope and Liam reunite and sparks fly, emotions are all over the place and a love triangle begins to form.
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Like the ocean

11 parts Ongoing Mature

His gaze was piercing and endless. His eyes vibrant, blue and luminous; like the ocean. Every time he looked at me it was as though they resembled a hurricane, fierce and captivating. His hair was shining in the pale light of the rising moon and setting sun. It glimmered gold, like crisp leaves in Autumn and fell along his face. The water dripping, falling upon his smooth muscles. Everything about him made my insides go crazy, I couldn't think properly. The ocean crashing against the shore gave me a lulling temptation to just step closer. His face was chiseled by God himself, and his lips, oh his lips. They were pink and pouted; they looked so soft, so poisonously kissable. The desire was inextinguishable. The fire in my heart could not be burned out. I just wanted to know. I needed to know. I leaned in and our lips met in a kiss that felt like every bridge that had ever burned, had been burned for me. It felt like nothing imaginable, almost like time had stopped in place and we were frozen in this moment. No rest or peace was placed along those ominous eyes that resembled the chaos beneath the crashing waves. When he leaned in and closed them, they suddenly looked calm. Like the ocean.