Bri's Big Crush by Melinda Metz

Author:Melinda Metz [Metz, Melinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Babysitter Chronicles; Melinda Metz; Social Issues/ Emotions and feelings; Social Issues/New Experience; Social Issues/Self-Esteem & Self Reliance; Babysitting; 978-1-4965-2756-1; 978-1-4914-8863-8; 978-1-4965-2760-8
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2016-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

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“We should do some stretching first,” Lily said when she and Bri reached the track Sunday afternoon. Bri had wanted to run on the school track instead of around the neighborhood just in case David used the track for his runs. How great would it be to see him there? It would be so easy to start up a conversation. The Night Of Humiliation wouldn’t even come up, because they’d be so busy talking about how they both loved running.

But the only people on the track were two ladies in matching pink visors doing some slow jogging. That didn’t mean David wouldn’t show up before Bri and Lily were done, though. Bri was planning to get in nine miles. She’d found a marathon training plan online, and it said to run nine miles on Sunday. She’d chosen the plan for intermediate runners because she wanted to get to David’s level fast. If marathons were one of his favorite things, he had to be at least at the intermediate level.

She put one foot on the second row of bleachers and leaned over her leg, joining Lily in her stretching. Lily ran laps with her field hockey team every day before practice. But Bri couldn’t remember the last time she’d done any running. It was probably the beginning of last year when Ms. Hahn made the P.E. class run a few laps because they hadn’t been paying attention.

But it didn’t matter that it had been a while for Bri. Running was running. It’s not like you needed lessons on how to do it. Bri stretched out the other leg and looked over at Lily. “Ready?”

“Ready,” Lily answered. They walked out to the track and started jogging. Bri’s gym shoes were in her gym locker, so she was wearing her Vans. They were flat and had rubber soles—and they were cute, which was critical in case of a David sighting—so she figured they’d be fine. But by the start of the second lap, she felt a blister coming up on the top of the big toe of her left foot.

Who cared? A blister was no big thing. Not if it led to having a great conversation with David.

Two blisters is no big thing either, she decided as she felt a second blister forming on the bottom of the pinky toe on the same foot about halfway into the third lap.

“Are you okay?” Lily asked when they passed the bleachers for the third time.

“Yeah. Fine,” Bri answered breathlessly. “Why?”

“You’re running kind of … off-balance.”

Bri focused on her gait and realized Lily was right. She was favoring her right foot because of the blisters on her left. And now a blister was starting on the big toe of her right foot.

Blisters smisters, she told herself. David’s worth it.

“I’m fine,” she told Lily again. “Fine,” she said one more time, as if that would make her feet feel better.

Fine, fine, fine, she chanted to herself all the way around the fourth lap. “One mile down!” she called out as she and Lily passed the bleachers again.

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