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Chapter 1

Cam

I don’t like being ignored Or, nored by Luc

The guy who’s been my best friend since I was four years old

The guy who taught me how to ride my very first snowboard

The guy who knows everything aboutabout

Or at least I did Now, as he sits across fro around with anyone and everyone butabout hi about me He won’t even look atto end up falling off the back of the dah wave

Which at the ood lances up from his super intense conversation with Ash, and our eyesI start to saze away before he sees it And I’ like a total idiot

And the worst part is, it’s all my fault The weirdness, the aardness, Luc’s inability to even look at ot drunk a few ether with Ophelia I’m the one who threwand pushing until he took me back to his place And I’m the one who freaked out so co He’d tried to be cool, to be nice—and I had lost it completely

Nothing has been the same since

I’ve spent the last fewand everything I could think of to get us back on even ground—but it isn’t working We used to practically live in each other’s pockets, and noe only hang out when the others are around When he can use Z and Ash and Tansy and Ophelia as a buffer between us And only when he doesn’t have to say iven time

It’s driving me absolutely, totally, completely, batshit crazy

Part ofout on hi the whole one-time friends-with-benefits route, especially since I’ But there’s another part of me that wants to slap the hell out of hi after badly But, really, one mistake and sixteen years of friendship are suddenly null and void?

Just the thought makes me mad I’d never shut him out like this—I wouldn’t even kno The fact that he’s doing it so easily hurts me more than I want to admit, even to myself

“So, who’s up first?” Ash calls froirlfriend, Tansy, balanced on his lap

“I a for my wakeboard

“That’s irl!” Z whoops as he starts to slow the speedboat down “Get out there early, show ’em how it’s done!”

“Oh, I plan to”

Z’s girlfriend, Ophelia, laughs even as she holds her hand up for a high five “Ten bucks says Cauys”

“No bet there,” Ash tells her “Ca rules on a wakeboard”

I shoot him a look “Almost as much as I rule on a snowboard”

“Hey now, it’s a little early for trash talking, isn’t it?” Z asks

“It’s not trash talking if it’s true,” Ash’s younger brother, Logan, says He flasheshi I love this fourteen-year-old kid so much it’s ridiculous, and the fact that he can still s he’s had to handle in the last year, blows my mind completely Not only did he lose his parents in a horrific car wreck, he also lost the use of his legs in that sa around like the total badass that he is

“At least Logan knows the truth,” I tell him with a wink “And that’s all that matters”