I'm Not in the Band by Amber Garza

Author:Amber Garza
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Crush, Teen, Teen romance, YA, YA romance, romance, Amber Garza, Band, One Direction, boy bands, Backstage Pass, twin brothers, Kasie West, Sarah Dessen, Sarah Ockler, high school, ugly duckling, nerd, nerds
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Crush)
Published: 2017-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Kassidy

#10—Become the girl everyone’s talking about

“Get out your notebooks,” Mr. Williams says as soon as the bell rings.

Miranda rushes into the room and plunks down into her seat. Her hair is crazy, as if she didn’t even brush it, and her cheeks are flushed. I hear a few snickers and hushed voices farther back in the class. But Miranda doesn’t seem to notice. Or maybe she’s good at ignoring it. That’s always been my tactic, too, and it works. At least to a point. Leaning over, she whispers, “Guess he’s on time today, huh? Way to ruin my Monday.”

I suppress a giggle, since Mr. Williams’s gaze has made it over to us.

“Every class period from here on out we will start with a warm-up. Sometimes it will pertain to the book we’re reading. Other days it will be personal. You’ll start working on your first essay of the year in about a month. Spoiler alert: it’s going to be about a defining moment in your life.”

My body freezes, my shoulders tensing up. A defining moment? There’s only one that comes to mind, and I don’t want to write about it.

“As we get closer to starting that, some of your warm-ups will pertain to it. I’ll give you prompts to assist you in that assignment.” Turning around, he writes on the whiteboard. “But today, I’ll make it easy. Just write about what you did over the weekend.”

It may be my imagination, but I feel all eyes on me, as if the whole class is staring in my direction. Shivering, I grab my pen and hunch over.

“I know what you’re gonna write about,” Miranda says under her breath in a sing-song way, wearing a teasing smile.

“You do?”

“Everyone does. Archer posted it all over social media.”

“Oh. Right.” The picture. I ’d almost forgotten.

She winks. “You’re the talk of the hallways this morning.”

At Hamilton, I was never the subject of gossip. I was always Kate’s sidekick. Nothing more. Nothing less.

“Why is it such a big deal?” Guys and girls hang out all the time. And it’s not like Archer is Mr. Popular.

“Because you’re the first girl Archer’s paid attention to in a long time. And you’re new, so people are curious about you.”

“It seems like a lot of girls talk to Archer,” I point out, confused.

“Yeah.” She nods, scrawling some words on her paper. Mr. Williams glances over, so I duck my head and write a few more sentences. “But you’re the only girl he’s hung out with since Tiffany.”

My stomach sours. “The pretty blonde?”

“That’s her.” Her nose scrunches up in disgust.

“They were together?”

“Yeah, but not very long. Pretty sure she was just using him to get to Ross.”

Her words unsettle me. When I met him, he’d thought I’d mistaken him for his brother, and the darkness in his eyes was striking.

“No, I’m not surprised that Archer spent the weekend with her,” Ella’s voice travels across the room. She’s bent over as if she’s having a private conversation, but she’s speaking well above a whisper.

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