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Getting to my feet in this heavy snow is a struggle, but I manage. I’m breathless before I even get to the top, but I make it.
My heart is pounding, my entire body has broken out in a sweat beneath the layers I’m wearing, and my breath has escaped me.
“I’m here assholes,” I shout into the night sky. “Are you happy now?”
Anxiety rears its ugly face when I see my snowboard bag with a note on it.
My throat opens up and I scream at the top of my lungs, “No!”
I pace for what feels like minutes in front of the bag, before finally grabbing the note and reading it.
Go down.
Heat rushes through my body, starting at my toes and working its way up, until my head feels like an inflated balloon.I can’t do this.
All the memories I’ve repressed hit me all at once. Like a wave crashing on the shore, they break and scatter, and I can only hope they will disappear. Because I don’t want to remember.
“Where’s Maddie?” Crew asks, walking toward me from the backside of the hill. His slow swagger and the smirk playing on the corner of his mouth has my heart skipping beats, so I quickly turn around.
“Maddie is taking a piss and Finn went down already.”
“That fucker. He was supposed to wait for me.”
I can feel his presence drawing near. His warm breath trickling down my exposed neck. “You nervous?” he asks.
“Not even a little bit. Besides, I’m too stoned to be nervous.”
“True.”
He’s close. Really close.
I spin around and we’re face to face. “What are you doing?” I ask him, warranting another sly smile.
“Just waiting.”
I quirk a brow. “For my best friend? Your girlfriend?” It’s more of a statement than a question to remind Crew that he’s dating my best friend.
“I’m breaking up with her tonight.”
“No, Crew!” I gasp. “You can’t do that. You’ll break her heart.”
“I’ve thought about it for a while and I have to. Her heart will heal, but I need to follow mine. I don’t love her, Scar. Not like I should.”
“You’re only sixteen, Crew. You’re not expected to love anyone in any certain way.”
“I do, though.”
My heart swells at his words because I know what he’s getting at. Crew’s told me many times that he has feelings for me. And I’ve told him just as many times that regardless of how either of us feels, we can’t act on it.”
Before I can even react, Crew grabs my face and pulls my mouth to his. The harder I try to fight him off, the deeper he kisses me.
Once I break free, my fist lands on his face. “Why the hell did you do that?” I hiss, wiping his kiss from my lips.
“Scar!” Maddie snaps. “Did you just hit him?”
She didn’t see the kiss. Thank God, she didn’t see the kiss.
“I…umm. He tried to steal my board.” I bend down and pick it up as if it hasn’t been lying at my feet the entire time.”
