Crazy Love by Melissa Schroeder

Author:Melissa Schroeder [Schroeder, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781956633047
Publisher: Harmless Publishing

Chapter Thirteen

Piper

I look at myself in the mirror, wondering what has caused me to lose control of my good sense. I have never been one to make rash decisions or to go along with the flow. I usually have plans, and lists, and lists of plans. There has only been one time in my life when I acted like this, and there is only one reason I would act like this now.

Carter.

I haven’t been this nervous about a date in my life. My nerves are stretched thin, and I have no idea why. I try to calm all the thoughts crowding my mind, but my usual techniques are not working.

I went to an all-girls school in middle and high school, which was good and bad. Still, it also allowed me to concentrate on my studies and have nothing to do with the hormonal insanity that grips most teenagers. Thanks to Gerry O’Bryan, my first college date wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be if a little boring. But now, I am going out on a date with Carter. A pretend date, but still.

Part of me wants him not to be good at this, to treat it like the fake date it is. That’s the rational Dr. Abernathy side of me. A practical, straightforward, list-making woman who doesn’t need to dream because she doesn’t think those things happen. There’s a good chance I have lost my damned mind.

But then…there is the girl from my past. The one who spent so much time with Carter that she thought they were friends—best friends—and would be their entire lives. That girl—now a woman—wants to be romanced. She wants the full Carter Hawthorne experience.

I know it’s stupid, but I can’t help but wish it were true.

My phone buzzes on the counter, and I look down at it.

Avery: Yo, woman, I’m back in the JS! What are you up to tonight?

Avery: Please don’t tell me it’s reading some boring journal article.

That’s what I should be doing. But I can’t. I have to go out with my pretend boyfriend, who hasn’t tried to kiss me in several days, and I’m wondering why.

Avery: Wait, you’re dating Carter?

Oh, shit, I forgot to tell her. Mainly because I don’t share much of my personal life with other people. It’s the way I have always been, the way I was raised to be.

Me: Yes.

Avery: Please, stop texting so much. It’s making my head explode.

I roll my eyes. Avery is different from her sister, who can be chattier than I am but definitely not as insane as the youngest O’Bryan sibling. I should have known that Avery wouldn’t let that slide. I finish with my makeup and hair just when my phone buzzes. This time, Avery’s face is on the screen. She never calls, so me not saying anything must have driven her crazy.

“I know you just didn’t ghost text me,” she says. Avery always seems to start conversations in progress.

“Is that a thing?” I ask, looking over my closet offerings.

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