Characters in the summer i turned pretty

вЂњI said, what are you going to wear to JustinвЂ™s party?вЂќ Taylor repeated. It was only the second day of July, and already, I was counting the days until summer was over. I was on my stomach, and I could feel sweat pooling in the small of my back. It was eighty-seven degrees already, and it was just after noon.

I was friends with Marcy, but the rest, Katie and Evelyn and those girls, they were more TaylorвЂ™s friends. The boys were messing around in the pool and us girls were lying on beach towels, all lined up in a row. Sometimes I closed my eyes and in my head, I said over and over again, It isnвЂ™t true, it isnвЂ™t true, this isnвЂ™t real. What does it mean when someone is really and truly gone? ItвЂ™s like itвЂ™s happening to someone else. When a person you love dies, it doesnвЂ™t feel real.

It had been- How many days had it been? How many days exactly?-two months since Susannah had died and I still couldnвЂ™t believe it. Conrad and I werenвЂ™t together, and Susannah was dead. Taylor was snapping her fingers in my face. вЂњHello? Did you hear anything I just said?вЂќ Just like always, Cousins was the only place I wanted to be. Jeremiah jumped in too, and he yelled, вЂњCome on, Belly!вЂќ He winked at me as he came from behind, lifted Conrad up, and launched him into the pool. Then Jeremiah said, вЂњYou guys need to get a room,вЂќ but I knew he was joking. He leaned in, and he kissed me, and his lips were cold and salty from the ocean. Let me see.вЂќ And then he peered at my face in his serious Conrad way. He squatted next to me and said, вЂњI canвЂ™t tell. He said, вЂњYou have words on your cheeks.вЂќ Conrad strode over to me, lifted the sweaty magazine from my face, and grinned.

They walked up the steps, cracking up over how Steven had lost his shorts after a particularly ferocious wave. Conrad and Jeremiah came back to the house first. Something romantic.Д¬onrad and Jeremiah and Steven had been surfing all morning. SheвЂ™d probably come out soon with a glass of sun tea and a book I should read. My mother was playing solitaire on the front porch, Susannah was inside puttering around the kitchen. I was lying by the pool with a magazine on my face.

Characters in the summer i turned pretty