Forever Together (Forever Love #2) Read Free Page A

my eighteen-year-old brother and sixteen-year-old sister both have jobs and I don’t? I think it is.
    "Yeah honey, maybe you can get a job while you’re here. Actually, I’m sure you could do with some help answering the phones couldn’t you, Jim?" She says, raising her eyebrows towards my Dad.
    "Come on Deena, the girl just got here." My Dad thankfully comes to my rescue and gives her a look that tells her to cut it out.
    "I’m just saying." She holds her hands in the air in surrender. "It would help get her mind off everything."
    "Uh hello! I’m still standing right here and I don’t need to get my mind off anything." I say.
    "Of course you don’t dear." My Mom smiles sweetly in a bid to placate me.
    My Dad simply throws a wink my way and sits down on a stool.
    "Where am I sleeping anyway?" I ask to change the line of conversation. The mantra in my head right now is "please don’t be with Bailey, please don’t be with Bailey." I’m almost tempted to put my hands together in prayer.
    "Oh, with Bailey but don’t worry, you get the choice of bunks." Someone pass me a gun so I can pop myself in the head please? I can’t really argue the point though. As I said before, I don’t live here anymore.
    "Ok." I sigh. "I'll go and get my stuff."
    I have a pout on my face that could rival Bailey’s as I walk out of the house towards my car. I've not even been here half an hour and I already want to leave. The only thing that could make it any worse is bumping into a certain guy whose name begins with B. Well, it was definitely a bad idea to even think of him. I have no idea how I’m going to spend the next three months living in the same town as him. There’s no way I'll be able to avoid him for long, not in a town as small as Franklin. What am I going to do when I do see him? What if he has a new girlfriend? Oh crap, there’s no way I could bare to see him with another girl, that'd just about finish me off.
    I pop the trunk and bite my lip while thinking about how much coming home was a bad idea. Not only do I have to avoid a certain someone, but I just can’t face Noah and Liv either, not after snubbing them for the past six months. She probably hates me now anyway and Noah probably hates me for hurting her feelings. On graduating from High School with dreams of getting out of Franklin, I definitely didn’t think that I'd find myself back here for the Summer two years later, single and friendless.
    Anyway, it looks as if it'll definitely be an interesting Summer. One other things for sure, I’m definitely not the same Cindy who left two years ago or even drove away in tears six months ago. The thing is, I’m not totally sure if I like this new Cindy or if I want to try and recapture the old sweet happy go lucky one. Well, I've got the next three months to find out at least.

Chapter 2
    Brady
    I stare down at the phone in my hand and only one word comes to mind.
    "Shit!" I shout, causing the damn dog to jump halfway up in the air.
    Only two words are on the screen and they cause my heart to almost beat out of my fucking chest.
    She's home.
    As soon as I saw the text from Cindy’s Mom Deena, I thought I was gonna keel the hell over. After shooting a text over to my boy Noah, I’m expecting him to come through the door any minute. I've been waiting for this day for nearly six fucking months and now it’s finally here, now I haven’t got two and a half thousand miles between us, I’m fucking stumped as to what to do. That’s why I need my boy here, he’s all experienced in romance and shit considering he’s getting married next month, so he’s the one that I want advising me. I can’t exactly ask that gigolo - Tucker.
    I pace the living room floor, Brian’s wide brown eyes following me as I do. I don’t know what the hell to do. Maybe I should buy one of those white board thingies to plan my attack. Shit! I sound like a fucking psycho. Yeah that'll work, I can be like "Hey Cindy, how you been? Good? Yeah