How to Quit Your Crush by Amy Fellner Dominy

Author:Amy Fellner Dominy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Being a Teen eBooks; Coming of Age Fiction; Short Stories in Teen & Young Adult Literature; Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance eBooks; Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Dating & Intimacy eBooks; Teen & Young Adult Dating & Sex Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Romance eBooks; Teen & Young Adult Self Esteem & Reliance Fiction; YA romantic comedy; Young Adult RomCom; Entangled Teen; Crush; How to Quit Your Crush by Amy Dominy; Amy Dominy; Dating Competition; Terrible Dates; Enemies to Lovers Young Adult Romance; Summer YA Romance; Surfer; Valedictorian; College bound; Teenage Crush; Announcing Trouble by Amy Fellner Dominy; Opposites Attract Romance; Reunited Lovers; Arizona
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Crush)
Published: 2020-04-09T19:26:33+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Anthony

She’s late.

I’m parked in the corner of the library—our spot. I’m already thinking of it like that after only four nights. Like we have a spot. There are trees back here, and at first I liked the shade, but tonight it feels like a lurking beast hanging over my car. I feel like a lurking beast. A pathetic stalker.

With sweaty palms.

Where is she?

Did she change her mind? Did her parents find out? Did she decide she wanted Grant instead? It’s only a matter of time before she gets over this attraction. I’m not sure why she hasn’t yet. Half the time I wish she would.

But the other half of the time?

This morning when I saw her with Grant, yeah, I got jealous. Like nothing I’ve felt before. I’m not like this—not about girls. I don’t get possessive because I don’t get serious. I haven’t even wanted a girlfriend since Haley. Most of my buddies on the team were the same way: Coop, Tucker, Garrett, until he fell hard for Josie. We were keeping it chill, no reason to overthink it. I liked hanging out, having a good time. I was always upfront about it with the girls, too. But always, always, I walked away when I felt the first tug of those strings.

Now I want to reach out with my own strings and tie her to me. What is wrong with me? This is a fling. Two weeks with a few rules scrawled on a piece of notebook paper. The end of something—not the beginning. I shouldn’t be sweating because the girl is late. I should be hoping she doesn’t show.

Tires rolling over asphalt sound behind me. I turn as her car pulls into the spot next to mine. My breath rushes out, and just the reaction is enough to make me want to smack something. My thick head, for one. I wipe my palms on my shorts and wait for her to open the door. A waft of warm air follows her in, along with her spicy-sweet scent.

“Sorry. Ethan called.” She smiles and straightens her bangs. They just skim the top of her eyebrows, a frame for almond eyes and a heart-shaped face. She’s a mix of places and peoples, a collage of features that the builder in me wants to take apart and put back together so I can understand why I’m so fascinated.

Maybe I do need a smack to the head. I’m losing it over this girl, and she’s not even real. She’s like the dust devil I saw kick up in the desert this morning. There for a flash—this thing you can’t take your eyes off—and then gone like it was never there at all.

I shake my head, clearing my thoughts. Tonight’s plan is a good one.

I watch her pull on her seat belt. She doesn’t belong in a beater car with stained cloth seats and a peeling dash. This is my kind of ride, not hers. If I had a girl like Mai, really

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