Suddenly This Summer Novels & Stories

That thought—that ache—keeps trying to push into the front of my mind. I push it back. Chris and I will ascend tonight. Our blood mingling with our fathers’ and the other core leaders. We’ll be more connected to the pack, to the Moon Goddess. And to each other. I’m just tying my tie when there’s a knock at the door. “It’s open!” I catch her scent before I see her. Summer. My body relaxes—and tightens all at once. Calmer, but horny as hell. That’s the Summer Effect. And now that I know what she feels like in my arms, in my bed? It’s worse.

He was always so swift to catch the slightest change in my mood and I was so used to shaking my head and brushing it off like it was nothing. “Nothing I’m just excited” I shrugged my shoulders. “For most of this summer, I’ve wallowed in sadness and anger and all the emotions except the ones I ought to feel. I mean it’s Summer! My name is Summer” I yelled. “But inside me, it feels like fall. The deepest depths of fall…” Vincent chuckled.

It feels like the first week of summer all over again where we hosted this Welcome party. Now we're hosting another, and this time it's a send-off party. The kind of gathering where we say goodbyes to the friends we made over the holidays. I overhear a couple promising each other to call and text everyday, some breaking up because they can't commit to a long distance relationship. I can't even find Noah anywhere, and I'm nervous about how we'll end up after this summer. I don't want to be remembered as some random girl he hooked up with during a summer vacation in Hawaii. Yes, I want to be remembered, but not that way.

Dorian yelled back at her as coldly as ever making Summer flinch back in fear. "Why are you so cold huh??" Summer asked as her eyes began to tear up. The word "useless" had reminded her of her dad death, she was there yet she couldn't do anything, guess she was really "useless" after all. "I don't want to talk about it Summer" Dorian said and turned his back on Summer. "Just spill it out and stop this cold attitude of yours!!" Summer yelled as tears dropped from her eyes. "You really want to know huh? my mom made me this Cold Summer, my mom fuc*ing made me like this!!"

I lost it. "Summer, quit thinking about stuff that doesn't matter. Just stay alive."

The email was written in usual formal tone, but it seemed to have been written in a hurry. Dorian closed the laptop with more force than necessary and stood up. He picked up his phone from the nightstand and scowled at the number of missed calls and messages he had received from Kyle and Viviane. He scrolls to Summer’s number and taps on the call button before he can backtrack. ~~~~~~ Summer did not feel like leaving her bed. Yesterday, yet another truth unfolded in front of her. She doesn’t know how to react now that she has come to know so much about who she is, where she belongs, who her m一.

Sutburg was filled with flowers in spring, petals flying toward us in the wind, pink, white, and many other colors. Some flowers landed on my shoulder, and I thought to myself that I had made it through winter. And finally, my spring was here.

This summer was going to destroy me. And I couldn’t wait.

Power surges through the air again and Summer’s eyes go wide with fear. I stand up fast, heart pounding—