Good Guys Love Dogs by Inglath Cooper

Author:Inglath Cooper [Cooper, Inglath]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780989110617
Google: xjJ5nAEACAAJ
Amazon: B00BNETEHC
Publisher: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC
Published: 2012-06-08T18:30:00+00:00

30

Throughout the week, Lena hadn’t been able to muster much enthusiasm for the campout on Friday night. All of her friends were going. But the problem was, every one of them would be hooking up with a guy once they got there. Every one except her. She was beginning to think something was wrong with her.

They’d just finished setting up the tents when Tim Anderson’s Wagoneer rolled to a stop above the pond where they were camping.

Millie tapped Lena on the shoulder. “Looks like it might be your lucky night.”

Lena’s gaze followed her friend’s to the Wagoneer at the top of the hill. Luke McKinley had just gotten out of the passenger side and made his way around to the back of the vehicle. He and Tim pulled out a couple of duffel bags and headed toward the campsite.

Jefferson County High had its share of good-looking guys. Football players with big muscles and broad shoulders. But Luke McKinley was tall and lean and different from any boy she’d ever known. His walk was loose limbed and hinted at attitude. She couldn’t find her voice. When she did, it came out much higher than normal. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Oh, right, Lena. I’ve seen the way you look at him in the halls. You’re crazy about him.”

“I don’t even know him,” she said with what she hoped sounded like indifference.

“So? I didn’t say you knew him. I said you were crazy about him.”

Lena ignored Millie’s baiting and went over to the campfire to help grill the burgers. What if she thought he was cute? That didn’t mean she wanted to make a fool of herself.

For the next two hours, she did an admirable job of not looking at him. It had to be her overactive imagination that she felt his gaze on her, though. That or wishful thinking.

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes was one of the school’s most popular organizations. Jim Bevson, the economics teacher who headed the group was largely responsible for that. Regarded as the coolest teacher at Jefferson County High, all the kids loved him. His wife, Theresa, was just as cool. She went with him on all the field trips. Lena often thought if she had a dad, she’d have liked him to be like Mr. Bevson. The Bevsons had the best marriage she’d ever seen. Except for Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Frank, of course. Nobody had a better marriage than theirs.

Lena sat at the edge of the campfire and listened while Mr. Bevson told them a story about a boy paralyzed from the neck down after diving off the high board at a swim meet. The boy had pretty much given up on life until, one day, someone brought him a computer he operated with his voice. He began to write stories with it and went on to write a prize-winning novel called When All Is Black.

Mr. Bevson’s stories always had a point. “Every one of us has something in our lives that would hold us back if we let it,” he said when he’d finished.

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