In Every Way by Sparling Amy

Author:Sparling, Amy [Sparling, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Amy Sparling Books
Published: 2016-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

This is all so crazy. First I gorge on pizza until I hate myself, and then Josh comes in here looking for me. What’s next? Is a clown going to burst through the door and ask me to join their circus?

And although I’m the queen of denial and self-loathing, even I can’t find a way to explain what he was doing here. My stomach aches. I can still see his face perfectly in my mind. He had that look about him—the one guys on movies have. Like when the hero of the movie bumps into the girl in a hallway and all her books scatter to the floor. He helps her pick them up, then he gazes up at her, and their eyes meet, and he realizes she’s his soul mate.

That’s the look Josh Graham had when he was talking to me.

It. Doesn’t. Make. Sense.

I mean, yeah, these new clothes make me look like less of a homeless person and more like a girl. And yeah, I put more of an effort into styling my hair today, but that doesn’t explain anything. Unless there’s some kind of magic sewn into the seams of my Doxy leggings, I’m still the same girl I always was. And guys don’t ever like that girl. Trust me, I have eighteen years of experience in this.

There’s no way Josh Graham likes me. But it really kind of, sort of, feels like it.

When my shift is over, I take my purse out to my car and climb into the driver’s seat. It’s only a little after five and the sun is still up, the beach still sparkling beautiful in the distance. I’m not quite ready to go home and sit alone in my bedroom. I shove my purse under the car seat so passersby won’t see it and attempt to steal it, and then I take my keys and head to the beach for a nice walk on the sand.

My bare feet squish into the warm sand, each step feeling like I’m in a spa that’s exfoliating my heels. I keep to the dry part of the beach, where the water is too far away. I’m not really in the mood to get my feet wet and dirty, which is something Maddie loves doing when we come here. I’ve always declined her beach invites when she wanted to go swimming, (for obvious reasons) but a few times we’ve come to the strip to shop or have dinner, and Maddie always wants to kick off our shoes and walk on the beach before we go.

She’s really become a good friend in the last few weeks, and it sucks that she’s on vacation. Luckily, her trip will be over soon. The other day, Josh mentioned the possibility of seeing me at a Mindy Carmichael party, and even now, I stifle the urge to laugh.

Although Maddie and I are friends, we aren’t friends in that way. The M way. When Mindy Carmichael, the prettiest and most popular girl

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