# Read the first page of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez Read the opening of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez free, no signup. Two cursed daters plan to break up on purpose. - Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/just-for-the-summer-abby-jimenez - Genre: Romantic comedy - Year: 2024 - ISBN: 9781538704448 - Read it blind (cover and title hidden): https://uncovered.ink/?b=9781538704448&s=read-page - Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/125786/9781538704448 - Borrow: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=9781538704448 ## The opening I (29M) have been friends with Chad (32M) since we were born. Our moms are best friends and we grew up together and were roommates for the last 10 years, up until the incident that set our current situation into motion. A little backstory. I have this.. streak if you will? Basically every woman I date more than a few times ends up finding her soulmate after we break up. It's a thing. It started three years ago and it's now happened five times. We break things off and the very next person they date ends up being The One. My friends think this is hilarious. I always part ways with the women on good terms, and I'm happy they're happy. But my buddies tease me mercilessly about it. They call me the good luck charm. Anyway, forward to five months ago. I dated Hope (28F) for a few weeks. Not a big deal. We decided we weren't feeling it, no chemistry, so we called it quits. And then lo and behold she hits it off with Chad. Of course in true Good Luck Charm fashion, this means Chad is her soulmate. Chad is all googly-eyed over her, they've met the parents, they're ring shopping—and they want to move in together. Immediately. The only problem is that Chad has six more months on our lease but found a perfect new house for him and Hope, and he can't afford to pay rent on two places at the same time. So he had to make the difficult decision to screw me over or screw her over—and he picked me. Now I have to find a way to cover his rent until the lease is up. I spent several weeks stressing. I really didn't want to find a new roommate and the landlord wouldn't let me out of the lease completely, but he did say I could move to a less expensive apartment. The only available unit in the entire complex was a studio. A little small, but it's just temporary, and it's cheap. I jumped at the chance and agreed to it sight unseen. Then I found out WHY this studio was cheap and available—it directly faces one of those Toilet King plumber billboards. The one where he's dressed like Henry Tudor and holding a plunger over a giant poop-filled toilet bowl? It should be illegal for a billboard to be this close to a building. It's like the only person meant to see it is the poor soul who lives in this apartment—who is now me. Seriously. It's all you can see. No sky, no water—just the Toilet King. All day. All night. Lit up when the sun goes down, it shines through the blinds. I work from home. I am in hell. Chad thinks this is the funniest thing that's ever happened and he trolls me constantly, despite this being mostly his fault. He keeps sending me pictures of every Toilet King billboard, bus bench, and airplane banner he sees, which if you live in the Minneapolis/St. ## Books with a similar feel - [Stuck with You by Ali Hazelwood](https://uncovered.ink/read/stuck-with-you-ali-hazelwood.md) - [Book Lovers by Emily Henry](https://uncovered.ink/read/book-lovers-emily-henry.md) - [The Temporary Roomie by Sarah Adams](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-temporary-roomie-sarah-adams.md) - [Funny Feelings by Tarah DeWitt](https://uncovered.ink/read/funny-feelings-tarah-dewitt.md) - [The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-devil-wears-prada-lauren-weisberger.md) - [Atomic Habits by James Clear](https://uncovered.ink/read/atomic-habits-james-clear.md) --- Source: Uncovered (https://uncovered.ink). A short sample shown for reading and discovery. Rights holders can request removal at https://uncovered.ink/takedown.