Finding You

Chapter 40 - So Maybe I've Had Better Ideas

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Ah, summer.

A time for relaxing. A time for no responsibilities.

A time for fun in the sun, hanging out at the beach, and going on road trips with your friends.

Also, apparently a time for rebuilding a relationship with your ex-boyfriend.

Yeah, so maybe I've had better ideas.

After mine and Hunter's little heart to heart, which ended in me hysterically crying for half an hour and him begging me to stop and telling me it's okay, naturally, we had a few things to figure out.

No, we're not back together. At least not yet.

We both agreed that we needed to spend some time together before that, with me trying to trust him again, and him working to show me that he can be trusted. It's best to take our time and not rush into things.

The only problem with that plan was, I wasn't exactly going to be here.

You see, for the past few weeks, my friends and I have been planning to spend the first couple weeks of summer at Rose's family beach house a few hours out of town.

Sort of like a celebration for making it through the year and finally becoming seniors.

We only have one more year of high school left after this, so we decided that we might as well kick our last summer together off with a bang.

At the time, I decided to go because, I mean, what else was there to do besides sit around missing Hunter?

But then, the unexpected happened. Hunter and I made up, and now things have changed.

At first, I didn't know what to do. After all, I couldn't just take him back right away. That wouldn't be right, let alone healthy, for either of us. We still have so much to talk about, and my walls are still up with him.

He knows that.

But, even though things are still a little awkward between us, it's been so long since we've been around each other. I missed that, and I didn't want to leave him so soon. Regardless of what's going on between us, I still want to be around him. Always.

So, after careful consideration and thinking, the perfect solution came to me.

Hunter could come with us.

After all, he said all he wants is a chance. Just a chance. No pressure, right?

He told me himself, he doesn't expect anything. And somehow, that means everything.

When I was with Sean, he always made me feel like I was being unreasonable if I didn't forgive him and take him back right away. It never seemed to matter how much he had hurt me, he always acted like it didn't make any sense for me not to trust him again. After all, he apologized, right? Clean slate. And me, being the idiot that I was, took him back every time.

But I'm not that person anymore, and more importantly, Hunter is not Sean.

He's willing to work to gain my trust back, and although he might not know it, that means the world to me.

This trip was originally supposed to help me get over Hunter, but now that he's coming with us, he's decided that he's going to use it as his chance to make me trust him again.