Dog Beach Unleashed (The Seagate Summers #2)

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him all I can picture is what he looked like at the end of last summer shaggy hair cargo shorts with holes in them pizza stained T shirts I'm sure he's gotten taller Maybe he'll even be wearing new summer clothes They won't be torn or stained They'll look crisp the tags just cut off Everything fresh for a new Summer I thought about Bennett this whole year We e mailed a lot and talked on the phone But none of that's the same as being with him in person I flip flopped back and forth all year long Did I like him as more than a friend Sometimes I thought I did And sometimes I thought I didn't I kept telling myself that I'd figure it out on Seagate Things always seem clearer there Everything makes more sense when you're near the ocean But there's one conversation we had that lingers in the back of my mind We were on the phone one Saturday night It was February the month when the past summer feels like a million years ago and the next summer feels like a million years away It was after ten at night and I'm never supposed to be on the phone that late But my parents were out and'd told the babysitter I was going to bed Which I was But then Bennett called And we were talking Mostly about stupid stuff like this crazy new burrito he’d tried and the fact that people camp outside certain stores so they can be the first ones to get the new sneakers But then he brought t up first kisses Something about this girl Mara who keeps a list of who in the grade has kissed Someone and who hasn't You haven't kissed anyone yet right he asked