How to Date Your Brother's Best Friend (Eden Hills Book 1) by Julie Kriss

Author:Julie Kriss [Kriss, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

18

Holly

Tuesday was not my lucky day. First, one of my employees quit—she simply walked into the shop, put her uniform apron down on the counter, said “I quit,” and walked out again. She was my worst employee, but still she left me short-staffed.

Which meant, of course, that we were busy all day. Insanely busy. And as I was wiping counters and thinking about taking a five-minute lunch break, I felt cramps that told me I’d gotten my period.

It was two days early, and it was awkward. I was supposed to see Dean tonight. Should I tell him? Should I put the date off completely if we couldn’t have sex? Should I assume that if we couldn’t have sex, he didn’t want to see me at all? Or should I assume he did?

This was girlfriend protocol I had no idea how to handle. But one thing was grimly clear in my mind: No matter how long I’d known him, no matter what we’d done together, there was absolutely no way I was talking to Dean Madden about my period.

So I did nothing. And then my day got weirder.

It was an hour to closing, and I was out front, grabbing the sidewalk sandwich board to put it away—another task that my former employee had left for me to do—when I looked up to see Sean Weissberger standing in front of me.

My jaw dropped open. I hadn’t seen Sean, the mastermind of the Holly Cocklover incident, since high school. He no longer had the floppy-hair-over-one-eye look he’d had in school, but I recognized him instantly. He’d lost some of his teenage thinness, I realized with some satisfaction, and replaced it with a thin layer of soft flab that would probably get worse with time.

He was standing there looking at me, but I had nothing to say to him, so I put the sandwich board under my arm and turned to walk back into the shop.

“Holly,” he said.

I stopped at the door and looked at him.

“Can I talk to you for a minute?”

I didn’t even have to think about it. “No,” I told him. “You can’t.”

He blinked. “It’s really important. It won’t take long.”

A woman brushed past me to enter the shop, and I put a hand on my hip. “Fine,” I said. “Say what you have to say, Sean.”

“Right here?” He looked up and down the busy street.

“Right here,” I said.

“Can’t we go somewhere private?”

I would rather eat the sandwich board under my arm than spend thirty seconds alone with Sean Weissberger, so I said, “Your time is almost up. I’m going inside.”

“Okay!” he said, holding up his hands. “I’m sorry.”

I raised my eyebrows at him, waiting.

“I’m sorry,” he said again. “That’s what I came to say. I wanted to apologize. For, you know, high school. You know, what I did.”

I blinked at him, curious. He looked uncomfortable and sort of freaked out. And, yes, he actually did look sorry. “You’re sorry about that?”

“I am. I just… I’m really sorry, Holly. Okay?”

“You’re an asshole, Sean,” I said.

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