Cherry by Lindsey Rosin

Author:Lindsey Rosin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

128 days until graduation . . .

. . . EMMA actually felt pretty good about all her weirdness too.

“Happy Valentine’s Day,” Emma said as she realized that the time on her cell phone had just switched to midnight. They’d been on the bus back from Santa Barbara for almost two hours.

“Hey, yeah, you too,” Savannah said, realizing it was officially tomorrow. And then she asked, as if she just remembered, “Did you get my carnation?”

“Your what?”

“I sent you a carnation today. Or yesterday I guess.”

“You did? Just one?”

“Ha, yeah, just one. Sorry. I’ll make it a dozen next time.”

“No, no, one is great. Like, so nice. I got it. I got two, actually. But I thought they were both from Nick, since the one he sent me had a card.” Emma didn’t know what else to say, but she got the feeling Savannah was waiting for something more. She finally managed a “Thank you.”

“You. Are. Welcome,” Savannah replied. “Sorry about the lack o’ card. I’m pretty good with words usually, but I didn’t quite know what to say.”

Emma totally knew the feeling.

“Actually—that’s a lie.”

Emma caught Savannah’s eyes. What was a lie?

“I think I knew what to say,” Savannah explained, “but it was, like . . . it was like there was just too much.”

Emma nodded. She totally knew that feeling too.

And then suddenly Emma felt like there was a reason to turn around.

And she was right.

Oliver and Caroline had finally given into their basorexia—­into all the urges and cravings and hunger or whatever it was—and were now in the midst of the inevitable make-out session. Their lips and hands and hormones were more or less everywhere.

Emma snapped a quick picture on her cell phone.

“Is it just me or does it look like he’s trying to swallow her entire head?” Savannah whispered, so as not to disturb the horny couple.

“I guess this is unequivocal proof that two sexy people kissing is not an automatically sexy situation,” Emma whispered back.

Savannah had to bite down on her bottom lip to keep from laughing.

Emma was more certain than ever before that the pink shade of Savannah’s lips was actually the same color as her own. It was all she could think about for the rest of the ride home . . .

And she woke up the next morning thinking about Savannah’s lips too.

But she wasn’t thinking about their color as much anymore. Instead, now, she was thinking about the words that had come out of Savannah’s mouth about that one carnation.

And all Emma could really think was why?

Why did Savannah send her a flower?

Was it a friendly flower?

It didn’t feel particularly friendly.

As Emma wiped the sleep out of her eyes, she remembered that she hadn’t sent the Oliver and Caroline make-out picture to The Chat yet.

She wasn’t sure who would hate it more, Alex or Zoe.

* * *

LAYLA texted back to The Chat almost immediately: Oh. Snap.

She knew Alex and Zoe weren’t going to be happy to see that.

She was sitting by her cell phone waiting for Logan to text her.

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