Autumn's Kiss by Bella Thorne

Author:Bella Thorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

11

Lunch that day has me squirming. It’s not the food; it’s that all my friends and I are sprawled on the lawn like always, but every time I look at Sean, I see him not in his shorts and T-shirt, but the way he looked in the locker room. And when that happens, I get sweaty, my breath comes faster, and it seems like I’m having a mild heatstroke. To avoid this, I barely look at him. If I meet his eyes, mine skitter away a second later.

I don’t think J.J., Jack, Reenzie, or Taylor notices. Sean, however, totally does. He hasn’t texted me back yet, but he won’t take his eyes off me, and he looks highly amused by my squirming. He even makes it worse by bringing up the morning’s incident in a million different ways, just to make me crazy.

“It’s so hot out,” he says, flexing his biceps as he stretches his arms high. “I feel like I could use a shower.”

“You had PE,” Reenzie says. “Didn’t you already shower?”

“Did I?” he asks, looking right at me. “I guess I forgot.”

“Has anyone seen Ames?” I ask, changing the subject.

“She texted me and said she’s off campus with Denny for lunch,” J.J. says.

“That’s weird,” Taylor says. “She didn’t go to the Halloween party, she didn’t hang with us this morning, and now she’s not at lunch.”

“She has a new boyfriend,” I say. “She wants to hang out with him.”

“So he can shower her with affection,” Sean says.

I blush and squirm.

“You don’t see Taylor choosing her new guy over us,” Jack says.

“That’s because he has sixth-period lunch,” Taylor says. “Otherwise I totally would.”

“Would you, though?” Reenzie asks. “Or would you bring him here to eat with us?”

“We’re a good group,” Sean says. “Excellent manners.” He takes a napkin from his lunch tray and spreads it across his pelvis…so it looks like a towel. Then he smiles and raises his eyebrows at me.

I can’t even look…or not look.

Lunch continues on this way. Reenzie takes off early for an AP study group, J.J. lists a million road trips he wants to take in his new car, Jack is all about some superhero show on TV that’s apparently having an epic episode tonight, Taylor tells us all about the play…and Sean makes me squirm. When we all split off to go to our sixth-period classes, he falls in step next to me.

“You left so fast,” he says. “You really made a clean break of it.”

“Shut up!” I say, smacking his arm.

He laughs. “I got your text. Yeah, let’s talk.”

“Great. Want to hit the food court after football practice?”

He shakes his head. “Play-offs start next week, so Coach is working us pretty hard. What about Saturday?”

“Food court Saturday?”

“I’ll pick you up Saturday afternoon and we’ll figure it out. Two o’clock?”

“Great.”

We split off and I’m almost to class when I see Leo running my way.

“Hey!” he says. “I didn’t blow you off, I promise. I wouldn’t. I was there, outside the locker room. I waited as long as I could.

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