He's So Not Worth It by Kieran Scott

Author:Kieran Scott [Scott, Kieran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781416999539
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

All night I couldn’t stop thinking about that guy Ally was with. His cocky face. That toolbox hair. He’d had his hands on her back, right above her waistband. That was the thing that kept coming back to me, and it made me feel sick every time it did. He didn’t get to touch her like that. No one got to touch her like that.

I knew I had to get home and deal with the fallout. My mom had called me forty-two times the night before. Finally, once the party was over, she’d gotten through to Hammond’s mom, who’d come into Ham’s room still holding the phone at, like, one a.m. She’d told me my mom was too angry to talk to me, but that she didn’t want me driving home in the middle of the night. I was supposed to be back at my house by ten this morning. It was already nine fifteen as I walked down the beach toward Dr. Nathanson’s house. So yeah. That wasn’t going to happen.

I stopped on the sand and flexed my hand, wincing as it throbbed through the gauze Faith had wrapped around my knuckles. Clenching my teeth, I looked up at the house. Ally was in there somewhere, probably still sleeping. I knew what Hammond would say if he saw me.

Why was I going back for round two? How far up my ass was my head?

But I knew why. It was that thing Ally had said about how I never explained. It had been driving me nuts all night. Because she was right. That day outside Jump, I avoided it. I had hoped we’d never have to go there, that we could just pretend like nothing had happened. And she’d called me on it. She’d called me on my bullshit. So now I had to explain. Just to prove to her that I wasn’t the jackass she thought I was.

And there was something else, too. I could’ve sworn, when she’d first seen me, for just a second, she was happy I was there. There was a split second, when my hand was pulsating and my blood was rushing in my ears, that I thought she was going to throw her arms around me. I hadn’t imagined it. It was real. I just had to get her to look at me like that again.

I blew out a breath and walked slowly up the stairs to the deck. I was halfway there, when a sliding glass door opened overhead. Ally stepped out onto a smaller deck. She was wearing her Orchard Hill High soccer T-shirt. The one she got for being a backslapper—my backslapper. Was that a good sign?

“What are you doing here?” she snapped.

Okay. Maybe not a good sign.

“Can I talk to you?”

She glanced over her shoulder and groaned. “I’ll be right down.”

She was gone for about thirty seconds. I didn’t understand how she could make it seem like it was such a chore just to fucking talk to me, when all I wanted to do was talk to her.

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