Falling From The Sky by Nikki Godwin
Release Date: 02/21/14
Summary from Goodreads:
All stability in sixteen-year-old Ridge McCoy's life crashed and burned in the plane crash that killed his dad. This summer-long basketball camp is his chance to improve his skills and escape his problems back home. But his summer plans take a turn in an unexpected direction when he meets Micah Youngblood, the guy who runs the carousel at the local mall and has a reputation for devouring straight boys' heterosexuality for breakfast, alongside his chocolate chip pancakes.
Ridge needs a way to avoid the guys at camp, whose only quest for the summer is to drown in beer and hook up with girls. So when Micah offers to explain how the ten unique horses on the carousel are significant to his tribe, Ridge takes him up on it. Still, Ridge can't decide if this is a bad thing or not. All he knows is that he hasn't felt this alive since his dad fell from the sky, and as the horse adventures come to an end, Ridge finds himself falling as well – for Micah.
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Once we’re at the candy
stand, Terrence places his order while I scope out the scenery. I keep a low
profile until I see Micah. He leans against the edge of the carousel booth and
motions someone over to him. It’s a guy. He’s shorter than me, about Micah’s
height. Brunette. Thin but somewhat athletic. Then Micah hugs him.
“Uh oh,” Terrence says,
following my gaze. “You better go squash that now or someone else will be
playing your Xbox games.”
“Shut up,” I mumble.
But he’s right. Micah is all too friendly with this guy.
It physically stings.
What the fuck is wrong with me? There’s no way I’m jealous. I mean, yeah, if
this dude showed up at his house and crashed an Xbox session, I’d be pissed.
But Micah is free to talk to whomever he damn well pleases.
Except this guy.
I tell Terrence that
I’ll be back and make a beeline for the carousel. I slow down once I’m a bit
closer, shake my hair like an emo kid to look a little more natural, and stand
tall – because you know, male dominance and all that. Whatever that other guy
says is in one ear and out the other the moment Micah sees me.
“What are you doing
here?” he asks. He smiles, though, so obviously this isn’t an awkward
moment…unless he’s expecting an orgy.
“Terrence had to bring
something to his cousin, so I just tagged along,” I say as nonchalantly as I
can. “Busy night?”
Micah shakes his head.
“Nah, dead actually,” he says. “Oh, this is Tyler, Emilia’s boyfriend. You
remember my cousin Emilia, right? Pax’s sister?”
I swear, something
inside of me literally crumbles like a broken statue. I don’t know if it’s my
lungs or my heart or maybe my entire ribcage. I should have the words ‘fucking
idiot’ permanently inked into my forehead, branded like a goddamn cow.
Tyler reaches out to
shake my hand, mumbles something about Emilia wasting too much time looking at
nail polish, and how he better get back and find her. I finally catch a bubble
of oxygen about the time he walks away.
“So, Fourth of July?
You coming?” Micah asks, completely oblivious to my male dominance and green
glow of envy.
Terrence’s shadow
closes in on us just as the question leaves Micah’s mouth.
“What’s happening on
the Fourth?” he asks, looking at me instead of Micah. Terrence is damn good at
playing dumb as shit.
“We’re having a cookout
on the res, pretty huge,” Micah says. “And then we go down to our side of the
river for the fireworks show. It’s epic. You should come too.”
“Hell yeah,” Terrence
says, nodding along like this is such a freaking brilliant idea. “McCoy here
can give me directions. I’ll definitely swing by.”
And then, as quickly as
he popped over here to seal the deal for my weekend, Terrence makes some lame
excuse about going to look for some Adidas shorts and that he’ll wait for me at
the sports store but “no rush.”
When I finally break
away from Micah fifteen minutes later, I take the walk of shame down the mall
to find Terrence. I dread having to look him in the eye when I know, without a
doubt, that he was right.
I want Micah to want
me.
About the Author
Nikki Godwin is a Young Adult author from the southern USA. She is a city girl who can't live without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, Hawthorne Heights, and candles from Bath & Body Works. When not writing, she's not-so-secretly internet-stalking her favorite bands. She is slightly obsessed with rock stars and surfers. She no longer hides her love for One Direction.
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