It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2)

by Jenny Han

It’s scary how easy promises were broken. Just like that.

And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.

No one on this earth affected me the way Conrad Fisher did.

I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.

“Don’t let him push you away. He needs you. He loves you, you know.”

It was infinity.

“Conrad. There’s only you. For me, there’s only ever been you.”

I just needed to be on the beach. The beach would make me feel better. Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting, constant and ever-changing. It was summer.

Nothing I could say or do would erase the past.

I wanted to memorize it all in case I didn’t get to come back again. You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.

I didn’t want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

The way she said that, I could tell that she really got him. Understood him in a way that I didn’t.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don’t do it now, I never will.

When I used to picture forever, it was always with the same boy. In my dreams, my future was set. A sure thing.

The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.