Absolutely Not in Love (Sweater Weather, #7; Appies, #2)

by Jenny Proctor

I take a sip, eyeing Summer across the table. “Are we celebrating something tonight?” I nod toward the bottle. She grins. “A tiny promotion? It isn’t a huge deal, but I’m possibly the youngest person in the office ever to be promoted so fast, so…maybe that’s worth celebrating?” “Shut up,” I say. “That’s amazing! Of course that’s worth celebrating.” Summer launches into the work dynamics that led to her promotion, thankfully forgetting about Felix’s black Audi. Once that topic is exhausted, she starts in about her older sister’s upcoming wedding, which gets us almost all the way through the garlic knots and halfway through our main course. Summer’s sister, Audrey, who is a wildlife biologist over in Silver Creek, just had a whirlwind romance with Flint Hawthorne—one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood. Summer has kept me updated via text, but hearing her talk through the details in person feels way too trippy. The whole thing sounds like it came straight out of a romance novel or some over-the-top movie. “Seriously though,” Summer says. “You would flip if you saw the guest list. It’s supposed to just be their closest friends and family, but like, Flint Hawthorne’s closest friends are all A-list actors. Harry Styles is on the list. Harry freaking Styles.” “And you’re sure you can’t get me an invite?” I might listen to classical more than any other kind of music, but I was a diehard One Direction fan when I was a kid. So much so that I figured out cello covers of their bi...