Falling From The Sky
by Nikki Godwin
Release Date: 02/21/14
Summary from Goodreads:
All stability in sixteen-year-old Ridge McCoy's life crashed and
burned in the plane crash that killed his dad. This summer-long basketball camp
is his chance to improve his skills and escape his problems back home. But his
summer plans take a turn in an unexpected direction when he meets Micah
Youngblood, the guy who runs the carousel at the local mall and has a
reputation for devouring straight boys' heterosexuality for breakfast,
alongside his chocolate chip pancakes.
Ridge needs a way to avoid the guys at camp, whose only quest for the summer is to drown in beer and hook up with girls. So when Micah offers to explain how the ten unique horses on the carousel are significant to his tribe, Ridge takes him up on it. Still, Ridge can't decide if this is a bad thing or not. All he knows is that he hasn't felt this alive since his dad fell from the sky, and as the horse adventures come to an end, Ridge finds himself falling as well – for Micah.
Ridge needs a way to avoid the guys at camp, whose only quest for the summer is to drown in beer and hook up with girls. So when Micah offers to explain how the ten unique horses on the carousel are significant to his tribe, Ridge takes him up on it. Still, Ridge can't decide if this is a bad thing or not. All he knows is that he hasn't felt this alive since his dad fell from the sky, and as the horse adventures come to an end, Ridge finds himself falling as well – for Micah.
Excerpt:
He reaches an arm out
from under the towel and grasps my forearm. He pulls me closer to him, and
everything in my brain says to fight him off, but my body screams out for him
to just hold me close to him and not let me go. His other hand brushes over my
bare shoulder, and I glance toward the sky to avoid eye contact with him. I see
the towel fall from his shoulder out of the corner of my eye, and I know he’s
inches away from pulling his bare chest against mine.
In this second of
almost touching, I realize that falling for Micah – or any guy for that matter
– will be a thousand times worse than falling from the sky. I have a
girlfriend, and never in my life have I been attracted to a guy. At least not
before now. No one has ever gotten to me like Micah does. His hands run along
my arms, and I take the chicken way out.
“Will you jump with
me?” I spit the words out quicker than I process them in my head.
Micah pulls back and
inhales deeply. He’s not smiling with excitement or dragging me to the top of
the bridge. He just stares at me with those sad puppy dog eyes filled with
disappointment. He almost had me, and he knows it. That’s the point of a toxic
green elephant – everyone sees it, but no one talks about it. However, he’s not
talking at all, and the hurt in his eyes actually hurts me in return.
I look back to the
bridge so if those brown eyes of his start pouring, I won’t see the raindrops.
His hands leave my arms, and he steps beside me. He’s in my peripherals, but I
don’t dare turn my head. It looks like he’s staring at the bridge, which means
he’s either debating jumping with me or he’s refusing to look at me for the
same reasons I won’t look at him.
“You sure you’re brave
enough?” he asks.
I nod, even if he isn’t
looking. “Yeah. As long as I don’t have to jump alone,” I say.
“If you jump, I jump,”
he replies.
I really wish this
hadn’t made me laugh. “Did you like Titanic?”
He laughs too, and I
feel a world better. “I admit, I did…except for when Jack died. I mean, I get
that it kind of made the movie, but I prefer happy endings.”
Hopefully this falling
from the sky experience will have a happy ending for me, as in not smashing my
head against a rock or drowning or being eaten by an alligator. Now is a good
time to let my “what if” scenarios play out, and it’s an even better time to
talk myself out of this.
I look over at Micah to
suggest my many wild reasons on why I shouldn’t jump, but he’s smiling. Damn
it. Why does he have to smile and actually want
to jump off a bridge?
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About the Author
Nikki Godwin is a Young Adult author from the southern USA. She is a city girl who can't live without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, Hawthorne Heights, and candles from Bath & Body Works. When not writing, she's not-so-secretly internet-stalking her favorite bands. She is slightly obsessed with rock stars and surfers. She no longer hides her love for One Direction.
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