Faking Perfect by Rebecca Phillips

Author:Rebecca Phillips [Phillips, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The next day, Ben and Tori were officially over. A week later, I took her place in the passenger seat of Ben’s Acura TL. I had arrived. Again.

Waiting a week before publically “coming out” was all Ben’s idea. And the reason behind it was purely logical and practical, like Ben himself. He thought it might look bad for him to be seen with another girl only a day or two after a break-up. I understood, even though it killed me to spend an entire week pretending nothing had happened between us and worrying he’d change his mind. Still, I did it. For him. In Ben’s world, seven days was an acceptable period of time between girlfriends. Any sooner, he explained, and the cheating rumors would start circulating. But as it turned out, in our case, a million years probably wouldn’t be long enough to satisfy the more imaginative busybodies.

The first time we walked into school together, hand in hand, the rumors quickly grew rampant. In one, Tori had hit Ben because she’d found out he was cheating on her with me. In another, Tori and I were involved in a catfight and Ben had intervened, taking an errant punch to the face. And the most ridiculous one, I hit Ben in a jealous rage because seeing him with Tori had driven me over the edge.

None of it even fazed me. My head had been stuck in the clouds since our little moment in the girls’ washroom. After Ben drove me home that afternoon, we’d ended up sitting in my driveway for over an hour talking about us. About why we’d never tried dating before, and if we should.

“I just never really saw you that way and I thought you didn’t see me that way either,” he’d said.

I told him the truth, that I’d hidden my feelings because I was so intimidated by him. Hearing this, he shook his head in amazement. He was totally unaware of the effect he had on people. Namely me.

By the end of the conversation, it was decided. If I was willing, he’d like to try being more than friends. See how it went. If I was willing. I felt like laughing from the absurdity of his comment and the sheer joy that erupted at the thought of me, Lexi Claire Shaw, dating wonderful, perfect Ben Dorsey. Being his girlfriend. Me.

Between the recent developments in my love life and the fragile-but-steady progress with my father, I was feeling pretty good about life for once. Confident, even. So when Ben and I made our official debut as a couple, I tried to copy his indifference to the raised eyebrows and stares we were garnering. I also tried not to feel insulted by the occasional expression of shock. Okay, so I wasn’t Ben’s usual type, but circumstances changed. People changed. Right then and there, with his warm fingers entwined with mine, I vowed to prove all the doubters wrong and be the best damn girlfriend he ever had.

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