Atticus by Lex Tarin
Author:Lex, Tarin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tarin Lex
Published: 2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00
Four
Arlen
Iâm not going to let the drive back to Atticusâs house be the most awkward and uncomfortable experience of my life.
Not that I know how to not make it awkward.
âLet me just be the first to say that Iâm sorry, I should never have said what I said. Youâre my best friend, Iâm sorry for being weird. Letâs please not make this weird, Atty, okay. Can we please?â
Atticus takes forever to say words. And then when he does, theyâre stupid ones.
âAinât that big a deal,â is what he tells me. He adds a one-shoulder shrug. âWeâre not really best friends.â
âWhat are you talking about? Of course we are.â
He glances at me. âWhy donât you ever play Taylor Swift when Iâm with you?â
âWhat?â What would that have anything to do with this?
âYouâre always blasting it in your live pics. Like, always. If I was your best friend, wouldnât you listen to Tay Tay while Iâm around?â
Did he just say Tay Tay? âYouâ¦play my live pics?â
âOf course I play your live pics. You donât play mine?â
Would if I could. âYou never have them turned on.â
âThatâs because Iâm a closeted Swiftie, too.â His smirk runs away from his face.
âShut up,â I gripe. He is such a bad liar. âIâm not in the closet. Everyone knows I like Taylor Swift.â
âEveryone knows you like her. Not everyone knows you are obsessed.â
âIâm not obsessed.â
âYou only see day-light.â
âHush.â
âYou know every lyric all too well.â
âWould you stop it already?â I beg him, exasperated. âItâs just good background music for when Iâm at my pottery wheel.â
âWhen youâre doing anything.â
âStop it.â
âYou named your café after one of her tracks.â
I wait for him to explain himself because, WHAT.
âYou want customers to feel like when they are there, they have nothing else on their mind or to-do list, nothing outside of those four walls even should matter,â Atticus says. âItâs their break, their little slice of sweet nothing in their day.â
I just look at him for a long while then, blinking.
âLiterally nobody knows that,â I finally say.
âBut I know that,â he says.
âWe are best friends.â I slowly shift my gaze to the road. âI⦠donât know⦠what to do with my heart right now.â
âSheâs playing in Billings,â Atty informs me like I didnât already know that. âI could take you to her show.â
âThatâs like six hours away. And besides, itâs sold-out.â
âIt wasnât sold-out when I bought the tickets.â
Another pregnant pause. What is he even doing? Heâs a Swiftie? Or just a mastermind. But heâs so much of a grump, so much of the time.
âI donât understand,â I say, looking right at him. âIâm getting major more-than-friends vibes from you right now, even though you were saying weâre not even besties, but you turned me down.â
âI know.â
âI was so embarrassed.â
âI know.â
âYou have feelings for me too.â
He pulls into his driveway. Throws the shifter in park. Then weâre just sitting here in my words You have feelings for me too, until Atticus mutters, âI know.â
âThen why did you?â
âSame reason my mom kicked me out of the house at seventeen.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
What's Done in Darkness by Kayla Perrin(25507)
Shot Through the Heart: DI Grace Fisher 2 by Isabelle Grey(18227)
Shot Through the Heart by Mercy Celeste(18169)
The Fifty Shades Trilogy & Grey by E L James(17783)
The 3rd Cycle of the Betrayed Series Collection: Extremely Controversial Historical Thrillers (Betrayed Series Boxed set) by McCray Carolyn(13197)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson(12924)
Scorched Earth by Nick Kyme(11843)
Stepbrother Stories 2 - 21 Taboo Story Collection (Brother Sister Stepbrother Stepsister Taboo Pseudo Incest Family Virgin Creampie Pregnant Forced Pregnancy Breeding) by Roxi Harding(11062)
Drei Generationen auf dem Jakobsweg by Stein Pia(10223)
Suna by Ziefle Pia(10188)
Scythe by Neal Shusterman(9271)
International Relations from the Global South; Worlds of Difference; First Edition by Arlene B. Tickner & Karen Smith(8625)
Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses: Using Knowledge Management ot Win Govenment, Private Sector, and International Contracts 3rd Edition by Robert Frey(8426)
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay(7713)
Dirty Filthy Fix: A Fixed Trilogy Novella by Laurelin Paige(6461)
He Loves Me...KNOT by RC Boldt(5809)
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany LaFerrière(5390)
Interdimensional Brothel by F4U(5312)
Thankful For Her by Alexa Riley(5174)