I Like it Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2004-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

I, mystery man

Jenny and Leo held hands throughout the entire movie and kept holding hands as they walked out of the theater. Jenny hadn’t even paid attention to the movie. All she could think the entire time was, He’s going to take me home afterward. We’re only five blocks away from that big doorman building on Park. And then I’ll meet his dog and his mom and her personal trainer and their ten maids …

“So, I was thinking maybe we could walk over to the Guggenheim now.” Leo smiled down at her with his cute cracked-tooth smile.

If he was so loaded then how come his parents didn’t get his tooth fixed? Jenny wondered. Then again, she was glad they hadn’t. “It’s after eight. Aren’t all the museums closed by now?”

“They have these once-a-month things at night,” Leo explained. “And it’s kind of cooler, you know, seeing the paintings when it’s dark out.”

If Jenny had been thinking properly, she would have thought this was just about the best thing anyone had ever said. First of all, how cool was it that she and Leo were both into art and museums? Second of all, how cool was it that he knew about these funky nighttime art happenings and that he wanted to take her to one?

But all Jenny could think was, He’s not taking me home! What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with him ? What’s his story?

“Do you have any pets?” she demanded suspiciously as they crossed Second Avenue and headed east toward Fifth.

“Pets? No. Why?” Leo wrapped an arm around her shoulders. “Brrr. You warm enough? Do you want my scarf?”

Another heart-meltingly romantic gesture, but did she notice?

No pets? Jenny brooded, too distracted to be bothered by the cold. But why would he lie? And how come he’s trying to change the subject so quickly?

“Well, here we are.”

The ghostlike coil-pot structure that was the Guggenheim Museum hovered above them in the dark. “Kiss, Kiss,” a banner proclaimed, flapping over the museum’s entrance. Leo blushed when he noticed Jenny looking at it.

“Come on, let’s go in.”

Jenny opened her purse to pay for her half of the admission, but Leo motioned for her to put her wallet away. “That’s okay. I’m a member. We can get in free.”

A member? Well, well, well. And hadn’t Elise said that Leo had been seen at that big Frick Museum benefit on Thursday night? His family probably owned the Guggenheim.

They wound their way up the graded halls of the museum, stopping at the first painting on exhibit. It was Marc Chagall’s Birthday, a painting of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers, kissing a man who is flying in the air above her head. The woman looked as if she had just been doing something boring, like setting the table, when the man swooped down and caught her lips with his.

“I love the blue,” Leo said, studying it. “You would think blue would make it cold, but it doesn’t. It warms it up.”

“Mmm.” Jenny wasn’t listening to a word he said.

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