After getting involved with Dylan, the bad boy of
the Dixon High Swim team, Charley decides to stay close to home for college.
It’s just safer that way. Until she realizes it’s a mistake… just like dating
Dylan. She decides to put the past behind her and leave the small hick town of
Grassy Pond. There is only one problem; she makes this decision 3 weeks before
Fall Semester starts.
Charley packs up her Honda and heads to Southern College. On the morning she’s about to leave, Cash walks back into her life. He has been her best friend since they were 4 and is the only one that knows the REAL Charley. She leaves her farm in Grassy Pond with all kinds of “what ifs?”
Charley decides to live her college career to the fullest. She finds a great group of friends, joins the swim team, and meets a guy named Joe. He’s got eyes that make ya wanna melt!
There is only one problem…Charley has been away from home for only 48 hours before she breaks the 2 promises she made to herself. Will she be able to overcome her past? Find new love? What will happen with Cash now that he is back in her life? Will she find what she is wanting in Jack-a-lope Joe? How will her First semester end?… Joe, Cash, or alone?
Charley packs up her Honda and heads to Southern College. On the morning she’s about to leave, Cash walks back into her life. He has been her best friend since they were 4 and is the only one that knows the REAL Charley. She leaves her farm in Grassy Pond with all kinds of “what ifs?”
Charley decides to live her college career to the fullest. She finds a great group of friends, joins the swim team, and meets a guy named Joe. He’s got eyes that make ya wanna melt!
There is only one problem…Charley has been away from home for only 48 hours before she breaks the 2 promises she made to herself. Will she be able to overcome her past? Find new love? What will happen with Cash now that he is back in her life? Will she find what she is wanting in Jack-a-lope Joe? How will her First semester end?… Joe, Cash, or alone?
As
we make our way to the door, Georgia slips on the gravel. She starts laughing and the rest of us do as
well once we help her up.
“Y’all,
I think the ground and curbs are out to get me.
I mean they come out of nowhere.
The next thing I know, I’m on my ass again!” Georgia is a hoot. She always makes light of situations.
Hank’s
Tavern is not exactly what I pictured.
It’s an old, worn down, wooden shed.
There are five parking spaces in front of the restaurant section of the
place. The rest of the parking lot is
located across the road in a gravel lot.
It’s gravel, no pavement anywhere.
The bouncers are dressed in jeans and Hank’s Tavern t-shirts that fit
just a little snug around their arms showing off their muscles. They ask for our IDs, take a brief glance,
and in we go. I will have to say, the
guys don’t get in quite as easy. They
get patted down and driver’s license checked.
Sometimes it pays to be a female.
We
enter through another set of glass doors and immediately cigarette smoke and
stale beer hit my nostrils. The room is
open except for a few pool tables and the bar.
It is dark, lights are flashing, and the music is bumping. We do exactly what any group of girls would
do, walk straight to the bathroom. You
have got to kidding me! No door
really! There is no freakin’ door on the
last stall. After taking a few minutes
to get over the negative stall and freshen up, we walk out and head straight to
the dance floor.
I
have to say that this is exactly redneck meets ghetto fabulous. Whoever thought a place like this would play
Mystikal, Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne, throw in a little "Downtown" by Lady A
and Old Crow Medicine Show? We have the
best time just dancing in a big group. I
notice Crystal and Lucas on the floor; she smiles and waves before continuing
to do things she should be embarrassed to be doing in public. I am so thankful that I don’t have to deal
with that in my room. That is one
benefit to her dating an Resident Assistant... he has his own room.
By
midnight, Hank’s is packed. I decide to
grab a bottle of water, and as I’m about to pay, I hear that oh so sexy voice.
“I
got that.”
“It’s
okay, Joe. I got it.”
“No,
I insist. I was an ass earlier. I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. It’s the least I could do.”
“Damn
straight! I’m proud of who I am and
where I’m from. I just hate when damn
Yankees come down here and then try to make us look like hicks. You don’t like the way we live, then don’t
cross the Mason-Dixon,” I say as playful as possible. It did tick me off earlier, but I don’t want
him to think I’m a bitch.
“I
swear I won’t do it again, and nobody is gonna pick on you eating squirrel but
me,” he says with a smile.
“Okay,
I’ll give ya that.”
“So
Squirrel, you wanna dance?”
“Mr.
Scaredy Cat, I’d love to.” He takes the
water bottle from me and leads me to the dance floor.
After reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston her senior year of high school and multiple Nicholas Sparks novels, she found a hidden love and appreciation for reading.
Casey has been an avid reader, blogger (Hardcover Therapy,) and now writer. No Turning Back(Full Circle #1) is her debut novel releasing this September 30th with Finding Charley (Full Circle #2) releasing Spring 2014.
Her goal is to one day be an author that is recognized nationwide like Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover, Tiffany King, and Amanda Bennett.
When Casey isn’t reading, you can find her listening to country music, spending the day at the lake, being a wife, dance mom, and spending time with friends and family.
Her perfect day consists of water, sand between her toes, a cold beverage, and a great book!
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