Introductions by Stone C. L

Author:Stone, C. L. [Stone, C. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult contemporary romance, Young Adult, Mystery, reverse harem, Romance, Spies, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary
Amazon: B00ASPRPXM
Goodreads: 18403921
Publisher: Arcato Publishing
Published: 2012-12-23T08:00:00+00:00

He was responding to the message I had sent earlier about getting this new phone. I pondered what I would send him next, then quickly typed in:

Sang: “How was practice?”

Silas: “Long. I’m tired.”

Should I stop texting? I wondered. He probably wanted to rest and didn’t want me bugging him.

The phone rattled in my hands.

Silas: “What are you doing?”

I looked nervously around the room. What am I doing? I’m obsessively hanging on to this phone and attempting to sound cool to you so you’ll like me.

Before I could answer, the phone vibrated again. Silas was calling.

My heart dropped in my chest. I wasn’t sure if I could get away with answering it. I wouldn’t hear Marie or anyone coming. And I couldn’t talk! What could I do?

In my panic, I hit the button. I couldn’t just not answer.

“Hello?” I said softly into the receiver.

“I’m not good at texting,” Silas’s deep voice floated to my ear. Just hearing his low, masculine tones made my insides flip. “I’ve got rhino fingers.”

I chuckled. “You were doing okay,” I whispered, my eyes darting around my room. Could I slip into the attic space? My closet?

“This is easier,” he said. “So what are you doing?”

I carefully held the phone to my ear with my shoulder and then unlocked the window. “Not a lot. I was reading.”

“Did you read all day?”

I held the phone to my chest and heaved a foot out onto the rooftop. The wind was blowing softly outside, but it was the safest place to be nearby and not get caught. I brought the phone back to my ear, using my shoulder again to hold it as I eased myself out. “I went swimming with Nathan, too. And I met Gabriel.”

“Did he mess with your hair?”

I laughed. “How’d you know?” I put my butt down on the rooftop, scooting myself until I was sitting next to the window rather than in front of it. If someone tried to get into my room, I might not hear them from outside but if I tucked myself out of the way, the person wouldn’t see me out there. It would just look like my window was open. Hopefully no one would be interested in looking outside.

“I think he’s done everyone’s since I’ve known him,” he said. “I haven’t paid for a haircut since I came here.”

“You moved here when you were little, right?”

The phone vibrated in my hand and there was a beep. I moved it away from my head. It said there was a message coming in. I felt my heart beating wildly with the desire to check it out but I didn’t know the buttons to push to look at it without hanging up on Silas.

As it was, since I was distracted, I missed half of his answer. I put the phone to my ear again just as he was saying, “—it’s different here, but I guess I’ll manage.”

“I’ll have to find a way to manage, too, I guess.”

He laughed. “Not so bad right now, is it?”

Another vibration, another beep.

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