A Whole New League (Briarwood High Book 2) by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Brian

I’ve got to admit, I wasn’t expecting a pleasant greeting when I reached Alice’s house. But what I got? Well, I hadn’t expected that either.

She stopped me from entering her house by blocking the doorway. I could have just picked her up and moved her but something told me that would not go over well. Her cute little features were all screwed up in anger as she pointed beyond me to my truck.

“Get back in your truck, drive over to Hayley’s, and make things right.”

I stared at her for a second, certain that I’d heard her wrong. “Excuse me?” Then I stared some more. “So…you’re angry, then?”

“Are you seriously asking me that right now?” She drew herself to her full, miniscule height and crossed her arms. She was very clearly fuming.

And she looked adorable.

I tried not to smile, but seriously—she was so cute when she was angry.

Also, what the hell was wrong with me? One kiss and all the suddenly I couldn’t stop thinking weird thoughts about Alice. One kiss and suddenly I couldn’t see her the same anymore. I shifted from one foot to the other as I tried to figure out what to say to make this right, which was made much more difficult by the fact that I wasn’t entirely sure what she was pissed about.

It also didn’t help that I was confused as hell thanks to this new perspective I seemed to have on my former friend. For years I’d thought of her as my best friend. The quirky, funny, oddball who was my confidante and my favorite person to play with.

Then puberty hit and she’d become my enemy.

And now? Well, after that whole crying on my shoulder thing the other night when she’d been all soft and vulnerable, and then there was that kiss… Not to mention the way she’d kicked my butt and forced me to be in the play. That shouldn’t have made her appealing, but for some reason it did. No one pushed me like that these days. Not even my teammates questioned my decisions or gave me a hard time if they thought I wasn’t being an upstanding guy.

Again, that kind of badgering should not have been a turn on. But it had been. Arguing with Alice had made me see her in a whole new light. Seeing her cry had too, and it had also nearly destroyed me. And then kissing her? Well, I’m pretty sure that kiss had altered my world forever.

You know…not to be melodramatic or anything.

In short, I was confused as hell as I stared at her, but she wasn’t backing down one inch. And if that kiss had changed her life, she definitely wasn’t letting on.

Was it possible that connection had been totally one-sided? Maybe. I guessed there was a chance. I mean, she was the one who’d hated me all these years. I’d been angry too, but defensively. I’d hated being hated. I’d also hated the guilt she’d made me feel every time those judgy little eyes glared at me…kind of like she was doing right now.

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