Summer Love by Myra Hope (phonics readers txt) 📕

beautiful and everything but I don’t think I like u more then a friend.

Me: what do u mean? I thought u liked me, I thought u pretty much loved me? What happened? Why did u change ur mind?

Austin: idk really but I don’t think that we are ever gonna be together k?

Me: but u said that if we are single when we both graduate we would be? And we would live together and stuff?

Austin: idk what I was thinking, and that was u that said that remember? Not me. All I said was ok.

Me: but…… I had everything planned out? ☹

Austin: I know im sorry I just don’t want to be with u like that k?

Me: so theres no way possible? Ever?

Austin: I don’t think so…

Me: not even a little spark?

Austin: nope

Me: but I think I love you D’:

Austin: thanks and I thought I felt the same way about u too but my child feelings aren’t the same now. r you crying?

Me: yes y? how could I not be crying? im balling my eyes out!

Austin: its not that big of a deal….. u have Max don’t u?

Me: is this about max?

Austin: ummm no? I just don’t like u like that ok?

We texted until about 2 or 3 in the morning the whole time I was crying my eyes out and my make up was running down my face. I told him I was tired and want to go to sleep because I couldn’t take anymore I didn’t want to talk to him anymore that night. So I said goodnight and he never replied. But around 3:30am when I thought nothing could make me happy, max texted me asking if I was still awake. So I said yea barely, and he asked if everything was alright because I’m not normally up that late. I told him everything. Like EVERYTHING, he understood. But he told me that he didn’t think that he would want to be with me if I liked another guy so much. I told him that I don’t. I will stop liking Austin since he doesn’t like me anymore and plus, I have him now so I won't like another guy if I do date him. I promised him I wouldn’t and he believed me and said ok we can try it. That made me a lot happier and I finally fell asleep.
A New Start

The next morning I woke up with black make up all over my cheeks and I almost forgot why. I texted Max everyday, all day until my birthday. I asked him if he could still try to make it and he said possibly but he wasn’t sure yet. My birthday party came and went….no Max. He texted me all night though. He said he was just too tired to get up and walk to my house, so I was fine with it and he promised to come to youth group with me that Wednesday.

Tuesday night, the night before youth group we both agreed to meet. I walked down the street and we met in front of an old union hall. That night was a night I will never ever forget…..


It was about 7:00pm, the sun was almost set, so it was kind of dark outside. I asked my mom if I could take my dog, Oscar, for a walk, she said yes! I was surprised she didn’t say no because it was getting dark outside. I couldn’t decided what to wear. I wanted to wear something comfy but not to comfy, you can meet someone for the first time only once. I put on one of my favorite sweatshirts and my favorite skinny jeans and my converse. Put some perfume on and headed out the door. I got to the parking lot of the union hall and waited by the lamp post. I was so nervous I had no idea what direction he was coming from and I didn’t know really how tall he was, other then by what he told me, so I wouldn’t really know it was him until he walked up to me. I stood there in complete silence, just me and my doggy under a lit lamp post. About 10 minutes passed, I was beginning to think he wasn’t gonna come so I pulled out my phone and listened to my music. Just when I finally got my head phones in and pushed play, Oscar stood up, his ears were moving around like he was hearing something so I took my head phones out and listened. I could hear foot steps coming up the hill around the corner so I quickly put my phone and head phones away, fixed my hair, put a new piece of gum in my mouth and watched anxiously at the corner for any sight of someone. Then I saw a guy. I wasn’t sure if it was him or not because one, it was dark and two, he said he was 5’10 and he looked really tall in his picture, but from my view he wasn’t that tall. So I just stood there looking around but not too obvious and then when I could here him get about 10 feet away I looked over and the light was shinning on his golden light brown hair. He didn’t look like his picture as much I thought he would, but in a way it was a good thing, he was much more handsome in person. As he got closer I noticed that he looked as if he hadn’t shaved for a couple days, but I liked it.


Max’s thoughts when he first saw me……
I hope she likes me…I wonder what she’s like in person…oh my gosh, I'm so nervous. Ok, almost there, just around the corner… Wow, shes really hot! She looks way better in person, I hope she doesn’t think I'm someone else and not see me come up, I don’t want to scare her. I hope my breath doesn’t stink. I hope she has gum. What a cute little doggy. I wonder what his name is, I didn’t know she had a dog…I hope she didn’t tell me she did and I forgot already. Ok, here goes nothing……

“Hey.”
“Hi.”
“Cute dog.”
“Thanks.” Oh my gosh this is kind of awkward, I don’t know what to say!
“Wanna walk?”
“Sure.” Wow, I haven’t heard his voice that much but I like it a lot.
“Where do you want to go?” She's really hot!!
“Have you been to the school down the road?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
“Let's walk over in that area, we can't go past my house though. becuase my parents don’t know I'm meeting you remember?”
“Oh yeah, right, ok”

That was the night I met my future boyfriend......

Now at this time I didn’t know that he would be my boyfriend though. But this day was the start to our amazing friendship.

Max comes over everyday, literally, EVERY single day. I never get tired of him and neither do my parents. My parents absolutely love him and I'm beginning to really love him, I think. Since it was summer we have our pool set up so we spend a lot of our time in the pool, splashing around and having a sweet, innocent, flirty time together. Once it gets late, around 10pm, he gets ready to head home, but he never leaves right at 10 because we stand and talk on the street corner by where we met for almost 15-20 minutes, sometimes even longer. It is so hard to say goodbye and its getting harder and harder every night.

This night was special, he kissed me on the forehead. We weren’t even dating yet. If felt like we were though. The next couple nights he would give me a kiss somewhere different on my face. First it was my forehead, then my left cheek, followed by my right, and then my nose. By the 5th night he finally kissed me on the lips. OMG! It was the greatest kiss I had ever had. I felt like there was energy going through my whole body. It was a nice kiss though, no tongue or anything, that would have been a little too much for a first kiss. He held my face and looked into my eyes with his amazing green eyes and asked me to date him. Of course I said yes, how could I not, I liked him a lot. He knew that too, I’m so happy he finally asked me. At first I was afraid he wouldn’t because my dad wanted Max to ask him before he asked me but Max was too shy to and was super nervous. I guess he just decided to do it without asking. My dad said yes in his own way, I mean, why wouldn’t he agree to let us date? He let him come over everyday for about 3 weeks.

That night after he left I ran back home and when I got inside I yelled "WOO HOO!!" I was so happy and full of energy I told my parents what happened and they were very cool with it. Every night I write him a little note. I stick in his sweatshirt pocket or his wallet he keeps in his back pocket. At first he didn't know how I got it in there and other times he knew exactly what I was doing. But this night I had to write something new because it was our first night with a note that I could write something romantic. I couldn't think of what to say. I don't want to say I love you yet because that's his job to say it first but I really want to. I just said something about how handsome he is and that I'm happy he picked me. The next couple days were more intimate, we held hands every chance we got and he always was next to me when ever I went in the house. He would give me a kiss every chance he got. I love it so much. Most people would think that it's to clingy but I don't because I do it too and he doesn't mind one bit.

A couple days went by and we said bye every night and we were out at the corner longer and longer. Every night I was waiting for him to say those 3 words. I knew that he probably wouldn't within a couple days of us dating, that's a little soon. A week went by, I was so ready to say it, I wanted to but I also wanted to wait for him to say it first and then one night I slipped. He