Emily

By Joe Bondi Beach

Sometimes, the girl next door is the one, and parents can surprise you when they approve. The childhood friendship of Emily and Daniel becomes much more than friendship. Their families are not only neighbors, but friends. Very good friends. This story contains explicit language and adult themes, including consensual sexual activities that some might consider borderline. It is for mature adults only.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312148871

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Emily

EMILY

Joe Bondi Beach

Also by Joe Bondi Beach

California Central Valley Summer Heat

Swimming with Kate

Sarah’s Honeymoon

Cheerleaders in Paradise

A New Life for Julie

Chloe

A Picnic with April

Julie

Emily and Daniel

Spring Break in Napa

Morning at the Baths

Julie’s Spring

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EMILY

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Third Edition

Copyright 2014, 2015 Joe Bondi Beach

All rights reserved

978-1-312-14887-1

Except for the cover and endpaper images, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published by Bondi Beach Books

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Acknowledgements

The cover image is a detail from Teenage couple embrace on the bank of the Frio Canyon River near Leakey, Texas, and San Antonio, 1973 by Marc St. Gil. It is a public domain image from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, NARA Identifier 554901, one in a series of images in the DOCUMERICA project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The image does not represent any of the characters in this book. The entire image appears in the end papers.

In Home for the Summer, the passage Daniel reads to Emily is from Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire.

Emily

Sometimes, the girl next door is the one.

1

Home for the Summer

The end of Spring Quarter

couldn’t have come sooner. My freshman year, and I already had a D in Geology I. Fucking rocks. I mean, who cares? The only good thing to come this spring was the latest news about Emily. Emily’s doc still wasn’t saying, but Alma told me he was smiling on their last visit. After weeks of work, Emily had earned that smile.

That Saturday afternoon when I got home I tossed my bags, except for the small one with a change of clothes, in the hall and walked through the living room into the garden. I knew Mom and Dad were out of town until tomorrow, so I kept going to the gate between our yard and Emily’s garden. Joseph looked up and smiled when I closed the gate behind me, but I put my finger to my lips before he could speak. Emily’s wheelchair on the deck at the shallow end of the pool and the choppy water told me Emily was well into her afternoon workout. She was kicking as hard as she could, her eyes shut tight, her arms extended to Alma. A one-in-a-million surfing accident. Hell, probably one in ten million, but it had happened to Emily on her first time out.

I stripped to my boxers, waved to Joseph, and eased myself into the water. A couple of steps and I was behind Alma, my hands on her hips. I pressed myself against her bottom in greeting. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Joseph watching. He gave me a thumbs up. I slid my arms around Alma under her breasts and shushed her before she could speak, kissed her, and held her against me as we watched Emily kick. After a moment I patted her shoulder and moved around beside her and extended my arms. When Alma let go I took Emily’s hands and Alma stepped back.

Emily opened her eyes when she felt her mother release her.

Daniel!