Fearless (The Swift Series) by Nelson Hayley

Author:Nelson, Hayley [Nelson, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2013-09-19T18:30:00+00:00

Fearless

“And you know I wanna’ ask you to dance right there in the middle of the parking lot…”

One night I called Stephen.

He told me he was coming down with a bad cold so he wouldn’t be coming to school. Would you believe it? He really did have a cold. His voice was stuffy and he kept sneezing. I wanted to offer to cut so I could take care of him, but I didn’t want to seem too interested.

Besides, my father’s finally caught on to my habit for cutting classes and was absolutely furious when he found out, even if I argued that I had some of the highest grades in the entire school.

So I settled with dropping some soup off over at his house the next morning before heading off to school. His house was also in close proximity to the school. It wasn’t any trouble at all.

Tackling the day was a little more difficult. By now, I’d gotten used to bringing an extra set of clothes in case the “Stephen Matveev Fan Club” decided to attack me. Yes, they do call themselves that. I was to have one period with Stephen today – Physics (also shared with Abigail) – and two without in which we would just text each other – Trigonometry and Economics.

Abigail herself seemed happier that Stephen wasn’t around. When Physics class finished and we headed to the cafeteria for lunch, she expressed it to me,

“The air seems much cleaner today. What, did Mr Bad Boy decide not to take his sidekick along today?”

“He’s sick,” I answered.

“Yeah, right,” she rolled her eyes.

“No, really, he’s sick,” I explained. “Sneezing, stuffy nose and everything.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he was good enough at faking to fool you.”

“What do you have against him?” I asked. “I mean, when he takes shots at you it’s obviously not because he wants to but because he does that to everybody. But you genuinely seem to hate him.”

“You know why.”

“I don’t.”

“He’s a player,” Abigail stopped to look at me straight in the eye.

“So are a lot of the other boys here but you don’t hate them,” I pointed out. My eyes widened. It finally hit me. “He played you, didn’t he?”

“I liked him,” she admitted grudgingly. “He played with my feelings the same way he’s playing with yours.”

“I don’t like him,” I spat out a little too immediately.

Abigail gave me a look. “Taylor, seriously?”

“We’re not talking about me, we’re talking about you,” I shifted focus. “Were you two as friendly as we two are?”

“Not really,” she explained. “He was a lot more gentlemanly with me. He seemed to be really interested in me.”

“What happened?” I asked.

“He hooked up with Karen Renshaw,” she replied.

“And?”

“He acted like nothing happened.”

“And?”

“He thought I was being unreasonably upset.”

“And?”

“What do you mean ‘and’?” Abigail snapped. “Isn’t that reason enough?”

“Were you guys in an exclusive relationship?” I questioned.

“No.”

“Had either one of you explicitly expressed interest in pursuing a relationship?”

“No.”

“Did you reject his advances?”

“Yes.”

“Then I don’t see the problem,” I admitted.

“What do you mean you don’t see the problem?” she shrieked.

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