This will be the sequel to "You Make Me Real", which is almost over (wow). I just posted the prologue to get some feedback! (and yes I did just quote An Abundance of Katherines in this). This kinda gives stuff away I guess? But I don't care. I don't know if anyone cares but I always pictured Amara as Brigitte Bardot (that's why she's on the cover) but in Four Letter Words I kinda picture her as Brigitte Bardot meets Stevie Nicks.
Songs included in this:
I Hate California - Uncle Kracker
Out in the Streets - Blondie
Four Letter Word
"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
― John Green
Prologue
Sorry and love. Tiny words without many letters but both of them might be the hardest two words to say in the English language. Nobody every seemed to get out the words "I love you," or "I'm sorry," without a struggle. They always seem to leave your throat dry and choked up, never actually leaving the tip of your tongue. It has something to do with pride. Curly and Amara seemed to be in a cycle of not being able to utter these simple phrases: I love you and I'm sorry didn't come to them easily.
She's lovin' California, that string bikini and the sunshine on her face...
...Pina Coladas on the sidewalk in L.A; ever since she went away, I hate California
California was everything Amara wanted. Beachy waves, hot sand underneath her feet, and adventures all within a five minute drive. She was acing all her classes and her professors had high hopes for her future in journalism. There was also some blue-eyed, blond-haired arm candy by her side. Her life was exactly on track. It was a dream. But after a major milestone in her life, Amara finds herself traveling back to Tulsa, opening up a chapter in her life she thought she had closed, for good.
He don't hang around with the gang no more;
He don't do the wild things that he did before.
Curly's life was completely and utterly different and he absolutely loathed it. Everyone around him was beginning to settle down, except himself. His new job as a mechanic at Phillips Station didn't give him quite the thrill, either, not like the gang had anyway (though the desire for that lifestyle had left him). He's living a unfulfilling life with no strings attached to much of anything, especially his "free love" girlfriend. Curly's stuck in a nostalgic state, wishing for high school to come back or at least he was brought back to fix up his mistakes.
The Summer of '69 would be an eventful one, though, that song wouldn't hit radios until almost twenty years later – Bryan Adams was right about one thing: nothing can last forever. Amara thought she knew this, Curly thought he could prove that saying wrong.