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By the look on Cove’s face, he wants to too. But he’s gone to so much trouble to arrange this date…
He clears his throat. “Are you ready? We should probably go.”
“Absolutely.” I refuse to let my disappointment over not getting laid cloud my joy of this moment. I’m going on an actual real date with a boy I’m crazy about…crazy in the right way.
I grab my stuff and we walk out of my dorm where an electric golf buggy is waiting.
“Is this for us?”
“Yeah…just, let me drive, okay? You scratched it last time.” He laughs and I frown.
“What?”
“When we kissed outside the club, you sort of freaked, jumped in my buggy and stole it.”
My eyes widen. “No way.”
“Yeah.”
“I wish I remembered.”
“So do I. It was an epic kiss, and it could have saved us a lot of time getting to know each other again.”
“So this is like Fifty First Dates?”
“Not quite that bad, thankfully. I mean, not you aren’t worth the effort because you absolutely are, but I’m just glad it was a small portion of time together that you lost, and not a total reset every single day.”
“I can’t imagine living like that.”
“Well, thankfully you don’t have to.”
We climb into Cove’s cart and he takes off. He passes me his phone. “Code’s 2902. Choose the music.”
“My birthday?”
“You said that last time too.”
I select the playlist entitled Malia’s Tunes and hit shuffle. ‘Daydream’ by Ruelle begins to play through the buggy’s built-in Bluetooth speakers.
“So, where are we going?” I ask as Cove navigates our way out of Avalon.
“You’ll see.”
“You’re not going to give anything away? Even now?”
“Nope.” He grins at me and I shake my head, not really minding, but amused at his secrecy. Have to admit his excitement is contagious though. I was already looking forward to our date, but now that Cove is here and we’re actually on it, I’m giddy with anticipation.
When he reaches over, takes my hand and squeezes it, I almost swoon. He doesn’t let go and we drive towards Two Harbours with our fingers entwined, ‘Let Me Hurt’ playing in the background.
When Cove bypasses the smaller town on the island, I stop humming along to the music and turn to him with a frown.
“We’re not going to Two Harbours?”
“Not this time.”
“I didn’t think there was anything else north of the town.”
“There’s not. A couple of campgrounds, some coves and beaches. Surfing and fishing spots, but it’s mostly unpopulated, in the tourist sense of the word.”
