CROSS (A Gentry Boys Novella) by Cora Brent

Author:Cora Brent [Brent, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-07T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

CONWAY

There wasn’t much in life I hated as much as I hated arguing with Erin. We didn’t fight often. She wasn’t like the other girls at school, always finding a reason to wallow in stupid drama games that no one could win.

I’d startled her when I came through the window. I could tell that right away. She shoved something into her desk drawer before turning on me all wide-eyed and guilty. No guy had a right to know everything about his girlfriend, but I wasn’t used to feeling like Erin might be hiding something from me. Even though I had shrugged it off right away, now that I was walking alone through the dusty streets of Emblem it bothered me. Maybe whatever she’d shoved into that drawer had something to do with why she was so irritable.

Or, maybe after having a night to sleep on it, she’d talked herself into being angry at me for yesterday. I had to admit I felt guilty for what I must have put her through. If she was sore about wandering around Emblem for hours, worrying over my fate, then she had every right. But then when we found each other in the parking lot of Dino Gas everything seemed all right. Erin had run to me full of kisses and love and relief. The only sore point was that she refused to believe that the whole mess had been my fault and not Stone’s.

Stone had been equally cranky this morning. He was that way even before Courtney, his non-girlfriend, called and lit into him for not paying enough attention to her, which was kind of an eye-rolling complaint all around. After all, she already knew what kind of a jerk Stone was when it came to girls so I don’t know what she was expecting when they hooked up. I’d never seen Stone go nuts over a girl, never afflicted with the kind of heart-singing passion that got a guy’s pulse racing and his mind fuzzy. He’d never felt the way about anyone that I felt about Erin. I really hoped someday he would.

I couldn’t help but grin to myself over the thought of Stone getting knocked over by a grand old-fashioned case of love sickness. It would take some kind of exceptional girl to manage him but with all the billions of females in the world there had to be at least one who could manage the job.

When I set out for the pool I’d been in a crappy mood and I’d planned badly. No water, no towel, no swimming trunks. Just me stomping through the streets of Emblem in my flip-flops and getting thirsty. I could get away with the gym shorts as a swimsuit and in this dry heat towels weren’t a necessity. But it would be nice to have a way to clear the dust out of my throat. Around here kids got used to toting around their own water bottles by the time they hit kindergarten.

Reaching into my pocket, I was pleased to discover three rolled up singles.

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