Bad Crush by Rebecca Jenshak

Author:Rebecca Jenshak [Jenshak, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951815097
Publisher: Rebecca Jenshak

18

Reagan

The element of surprise is a great way to make an impression. Today, you’ll have the opportunity to surprise someone. Leave them wondering what you’ll do next! Also, pack clean undies—you never know.

“My face is tingling.” Dakota brings her hands up to her face but doesn’t touch it.

“That means it’s working,” I say, wiggling my nose. It does tingle, but it also itches.

“These are hilarious.” Ginny hands me her phone. “Take a picture so I can send it to Heath.”

“Yeah, I’m sure a creepy-looking tiger face mask will really turn him on.” Dakota snorts as I snap a picture of Ginny and hand her phone back.

“You’d be surprised what turns Heath on.”

Dakota and I both burst into laughter.

“No, honey, we wouldn’t be surprised at all,” Dakota tells her.

“He says, ‘Rawr,’” Ginny tells us, staring down at her phone. “Reagan, you should send Adam a picture.”

“You think he’s into llamas?” I ask and pose with my hands under my face. She snaps a picture.

“Absolutely do not send that to him. We are not at that stage.” The tingling gets worse as my face flames with embarrassment at just the idea of him seeing me like this. “Promise me?”

“Okay, okay.” She puts her phone down. “But you look adorable.”

“What stage are you at?” Dakota asks.

“It’s hard to take you serious with that on your face,” I deflect. Her mask is a narwhal and makes her face almost entirely blue.

My friends, or the tiger and narwhal they’ve become, stare back at me. They don’t look like they’re going to let this go.

“We’re at the ‘everything is great and everyone else should mind their own business stage,’” I say.

“She has no idea,” Dakota says to Ginny.

“My brother is an idiot.” Ginny’s shoulders sag, and she sticks out her bottom lip. “I’m sorry.”

“There is nothing to apologize for. Everything is great.” I smile, though I’m not sure how effective it is through this mask.

I get up and go to the kitchen to grab another bottle of wine. The truth is, everything is great. Do I have an uneasy feeling wondering if Adam is as into me as I am him? Yes. Do I think I’d have this same uneasy feeling regardless of what label we slapped on this thing between Adam and me? Also, yes. I’ve been crazy about him for years. It makes sense that I’d fall harder, faster.

There’s a knock at the door, and all three of us look at it but don’t move.

“Go away. We’re too poor to buy anything, and we’ve already found Jesus,” Dakota yells.

Ginny giggles. “What if it’s Girl Scouts selling cookies or hot firefighters checking smoke alarms?”

“If you have cookies, knock three times,” Dakota yells again.

“What about the firefighters?” Ginny asks.

“My stepdad is a firefighter. Kind of ruins the fantasy for me.”

The knock comes again.

“Only once must not be Girl Scouts.” Dakota shrugs, and I sit back on the floor where we’ve got a whole home spa thing going on. Wine, nail polish, face masks, and magazines.

Ginny gets to her feet.

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