Falling for the Girl Next Door by Childs Tera Lynn

Author:Childs, Tera Lynn [Childs, Tera Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen; YA; Tera Lynn Childs, Art, girl next door, Young Adult, Romance, fake girlfriend, category romance, fake boyfriend, fake relationship, Contemporary, crush, Sloane, Tru
ISBN: 9781633757677
Goodreads: 32491408
Publisher: Entangled: Crush
Published: 2016-11-14T08:00:00+00:00

Mom has a meeting after school, so I ask Jenna if she can give me ride home.

“Can’t,” she tells me with an apologetic look. “I have STEM club.”

“Great,” I mutter. That will teach me to be friends with an academically overachieving science nerd.

“I’m sorry,” she says. “Maybe I could run you home and still make it back in time for—”

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll just hang out and wait for Mom.”

“You need a ride, Sloane?”

I turn at the sound of Finn’s voice.

“Oh, no, it’s fine,” I say with a dismissive wave.

He steps closer and gives me a meaningful look. His head jerks a little bit to the side. My gaze follows the direction of the gesture, and I see Willa and Mariely walking our direction.

“Right,” I say, reminding myself that Finn is expecting to get some jealousy-inducing results from this situation. “Sure. That’d be great.”

He flashes the kind of Hollywood smile designed to make girls swoon.

“So tell me,” he says, swinging an arm around my shoulder as we walk to the parking lot, “have you ever ridden a motorcycle?”

“Motorcycle?” I half-choke. “No.”

His grin gets even bigger. “Then this is going to be a real treat.”

Then, before I even know what he’s doing, he takes me by the hand. My first instinct is to pull away, but I shove that reaction aside and force myself to play the game. I move so close to his side our shoulders brush.

He looks down at me with the kind of expression that would make most girls swoon. If this guy isn’t headlining in Hollywood by the time he’s twenty-five, I’ll be shocked.

“Is it working?” I whisper as I give him my best helplessly-into-you smile.

His gaze flicks back over his shoulder for a split-second. From the way his eyes crinkle up in the corners, I know the answer before he says, “Oh yeah.”

This time my grin isn’t fake at all.

A few minutes later, I’ve given Finn directions to my house and am sitting behind him with a helmet strapped under my chin.

“If you feel unsteady,” he says, loud enough for me to hear through the helmet, “then wrap your arms around my waist.”

I nod, and then before I’ve had time to brace myself, the bike roars to life and Finn peals out of the parking lot. Desperate to stay on, my arms wrap instinctively around his torso. As we roar to the exit, I catch a flash of Willa and Mariely watching us from the sidewalk. Mission accomplished, I guess.

If I thought Austin traffic was scary from the relative safety of a car, it’s downright terrifying from my too-exposed position on the back of Finn’s motorcycle. He weaves the bike in, around, and through the traffic like it’s nothing. Thankfully that means we get to my house in record time. I can definitely see the advantages of a more agile form of transportation.

Not that I’m going to get one, or advocate Tru getting one.

Or will ever voluntarily ride one again.

But still, fast is nice.

As Finn cuts the engine, I climb off the back of the bike.

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