Blaze by Laurie Boyle Crompton

Author:Laurie Boyle Crompton [Crompton, Laurie Boyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, Young Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781402273438
Google: VrKFtgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1402273436
Goodreads: 13345957
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

His profile doesn’t exactly draw a promising picture.

I’m having a hard time breathing and my vision is going all wonky and that’s when Josh squints at me and makes his final confession. His fight with Mark during the soccer game the other day was about dating me.

“I just couldn’t help myself after seeing your bra in the van,” he says. “I warned Coach to stay the hell away from you.”

“Oh my God! Josh!” I stand up and the surprised wiener dog summersaults awkwardly onto the couch.

“I’m really so sorry, Blaze.” Josh clearly means it, but of course I’m still obligated to reach over and give him a knuckle punch in the thigh as hard as I can.

POW!

Josh drops to the carpet with a Thump! “Unnnngh.”

As he writhes back and forth, holding his dead leg, he concedes, “I did have that one coming.”

“Damn straight you had that coming,” I hiss, low enough so Mema won’t come charging in with a bucket of Holy Water.

Through my blind fury at my brother I recognize a lightning bolt of shining hope. This must be the reason Mark hasn’t been in touch. He still really likes me. He’s just minding my brainless little brother.

Once Josh is able to sit up he says, “I’m sorry, sis. Mark is just such a dirtbag. I was trying to protect you.”

Before I can give him a second dead leg, Mema and Mom come into the room complaining to each other that they ate too much. Josh and I quickly move to sit side by side on the couch and the dachshunds happily accept the gift of our laps.

At Josh’s look of misery I take pity and whisper for him to stop worrying. “I’ll get over Mark.”

But all I can focus on is the fact that I need to break through that anti-girlfriend force field. When Mark sees how fully committed I am he’ll forget all about Josh’s outburst and see that we can still be together.

After all, even Tony Stark made a great boyfriend when he was with the right girl.

• • •

After everyone has gone to sleep, I find myself peering into the crazy-intense magnifying mirror my grandmother keeps on her bathroom counter. Apparently Mema is half-blind, because I’m looking at my skin at a level of detail nobody should see. I find the beginnings of a small pimple under my chin and alternate a hot water compress with squeezing until a pearl of yellowish cream finally finds its way through my pore. “I knew you had it in you,” I say. Which, I know, is not normal, but I don’t get all that many zits, so it’s totally okay that I talk to them.

I splash my face with cold water to close my pores and am invigorated by the icy slap. Now that I know about Josh’s interference I’m feeling pretty hopeful about becoming Mark’s girlfriend. I mean, Tony Stark had his Meredith McCall, right? Well, and then he had Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanova, and Madame Masque. But there’s also Bethany Cabe, right? Bethany helped Tony overcome his alcoholism.

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