Page 128 of Summer Ever After
“I’ll leave it in the cart.”
“What if somebody steals it?”
“Capri, forget about the check. Can we just go before it starts to rain?” I motion forward.
“Yeah, sorry.” She shifts the golf cart into drive, turningout of the marina parking lot. “Let’s work on your speech. What are you going to say?”
“Honestly, you’re kind of freaking me out about my speech. Isn’t, ‘Jane, I love you and want to be with you always,’ good enough?”
“No, that’s not good enough.”
My shoulders lift, and my voice rises. “Then, I don’t know what else to say.”
“Why are you shouting at me?” Her tone matches mine.
“I’m not shouting at you. I’m just nervous.You'remaking me nervous.” I grab my chest, where my heart bangs inside.
“You’ve got this. You’ll know what to say when you get there, because you know Jane.”
Heavy raindrops splatter one by one on the windshield, picking up intensity as they go.
“Great,” I mutter, looking at drops as they trickle down the windshield.
“This isn’t a problem. Rain can be very romantic.”
Rain can be very romantic.
“That’s it!” I grab my phone out of my pocket. “Capri, you’re a genius.”
“What?” She glances over at my phone while still trying to drive.
“I know what to do. I know what Jane wants.” She literally spelled it out for me when we were stranded on the boat together.
“Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane starts playing over my phone speaker.
“Awww, she loves this song.” Capri sighs, looking at me with a weird, tender expression. “Youdolove her.”
“Did you still doubt it?”
“No, I just…” She shakes her head. “I’m going to cry. I’m so happy for you guys.”
Up ahead, a line of golf carts is stopped, backing up traffic.
“The road is closed for the backhoe,” Capri says.
“What backhoe?” I look out the front window. “I don’t see anything.”
“The one they’re using to dig the community pool.”
“In this weather?”
“I don’t know. I just know that the road is blocked.”
“Can you get me any closer?”
“I don’t think so.”
“I’ll have to make a run for it before Jane leaves.” I unzip the makeshift door on the tarp and immediately feel wet drops cover me.
