Half Halt (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 15) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

Mickey didn’t say anything. She just sat there not blinking or speaking. I wondered if she’d stopped breathing. I’d broken her. I’d broken my best friend.

“I knew I shouldn’t have told you,” I said.

“It’s a mistake,” she said, her voice wavering. “You couldn’t have seen that. I bet it wasn’t him. It was just someone who looked like him.”

“It was him,” I said sadly. “Trust me, I wish it wasn’t. I totally wanted him to like you and go to the ball with you and everything but I saw it with my own eyes. He was kissing someone else and he asked her to go to the ball with him.”

Tears welled up in Mickey’s eyes. If she started crying, I didn't know what I was going to do. This was why I’d brought her to a public place, so she wouldn’t have an embarrassing meltdown but Mickey didn’t seem to care that there were other people around us or that her crying would make everyone look at her and at me.

“How could he do this to me?” she said.

“Well to be fair, he doesn’t know you like him, does he?” I said, trying to make her feel better even though I knew very well that Ethan didn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

“So I could still ask him to the ball,” she said, looking bright again. “Maybe he’ll change his mind and go with me instead of, wait, who did you say he was kissing again?”

“I didn’t,” I said, not looking at her.

“Well?” She leaned forward on the table. “Who was it?”

I didn’t want to throw Fern under the bus, after all she had no idea that Ethan was playing the field. It wasn’t exactly her fault.

“I shouldn’t say.” I shook my head.

“You have to,” Mickey said, her voice raising again. “I’m your best friend. You owe it to me. I need to know. You have to tell me and you have to tell me now.”

“Okay,” I said, looking around nervously as people started staring at us. “Don’t freak out. It was Fern, okay?”

“What?” Mickey cried. “The squirrel loving hippie girl? No way. He wouldn’t like her. Not in a million years.”

“What is wrong with Fern?” I said.

I hadn’t been too happy to find her kissing Ethan either but that didn’t mean she was a bad person. I kind of liked her. She was cool and different and it wasn’t her fault that Ethan was a player.

“She’s crazy,” Mickey said.

“She is not. She’s cool.”

“Oh so I should just let her have him then?” Mickey said.

“I don’t think it works that way,” I said. “I may not know anything about boys but I think Ethan is going to take whoever he wants to the ball and I don’t think you’ll be able to stop him and besides, wouldn’t you rather go with a boy who really likes you, not one you’re going to make like you?”

“You don’t know anything,” Mickey said, her voice now steely and cold.

And I guess I didn’t because she wouldn’t talk about it anymore.

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