How to Meet Boys (ARC) by Catherine Clark

Author:Catherine Clark
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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HarperCollins Publishers

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CHAPTER 18

Mikayla

Tuesday afternoon, my phone chimed with a new text and I pulled it out of my pocket to glance at it.

Can’t stop thinking about you.

Same here, I wrote back.

Jackson and I hadn’t gotten together the night before because it was Ava’s first night in town and the three of us had gone out. As happy as I was to spend time with Ava, I was dying to see Jackson again. The past thirty-six hours had felt like an eternity.

We’d talked a lot on the phone and I’d found out a lot more about him, from his favorite foods (chips, salsa, and guac) to his college ideas (West Coast, East Coast, something with a coast) to his first concert, his hangouts back home, his best vacation, and on and on. We had a lot in common when it came to music and sports—we didn’t play the same exact ones, but we were competitive and we both started on varsity. We talked about what we’d do with athletic scholarships and how we balanced team responsibilities with homework. At home, he worked at Lunds, but not at the location where my family usually went. Still, it was weird to think that we’d probably walked by each other before without noticing.

Talking and texting was nice, but it wasn’t the same as being with him. I needed that. As hard as it was to admit to Lucy, and Ava, and even myself—I had already fallen for Jackson, to the point where there was no going back. I really hoped that Lucy wouldn’t ask me to.

When can I see you? Jackson wrote.

After 5? I texted back.

Can’t wait that long. Just quit your job already.

Ha ha, I wrote back. You first!

If it meant I could be with you all day, I would.

“Miss Mikayla, you promised me you’d show me how to stop getting ten-offs.”

I looked up from my phone screen. Jeremy, one of the campers I was supposed to be looking after, was standing in front of me. I slid my phone into my pocket, blushing. “Sorry about that. Just a small emergency.” A boyfriend emergency. Was there such a thing? How would I know? “Boyfriend.” It had never felt right to put that word together with me before.

“Do you have to leave?” Jeremy asked.

“Oh, no. It’s fine,” I said.

“’Cause if you have to, that’s fine. My mom’s a surgeon and she’s constantly leaving when she gets those kinds of texts that make her look like she’s kind of freaking out,” he said.

“Trust me,” I said. “It wasn’t that serious, even if I did look freaked out.” I laughed, feeling embarrassed. “I have a long way to go to be as important as your mom. What kind of medicine is she in?”

“She does a lot of those appendix things,” Jeremy said.

“Ah. Have you ever had to have your appendix out?” I asked.

“No way. And I’m not going to.” He shook his head. “I broke my leg when I was little and that was horrible.

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