It Had to Be You by Sabrina Jordan

Author:Sabrina Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Chapter Seven

The first thing I did when I got home was call Caitlyn. Or at least I tried to, but her line was busy, which meant she was online. So I sent her an instant message and told her to call me.

My phone rang a minute later.

“What’s up?” she asked.

“Guess who I’m going to the county fair with on Saturday?”

“I dunno. Who? Joey Harris? Matthew Chin? Lucas Fiori? If it’s any of them, you’ve hit the jackpot. They’re all cuties.”

“Caitlyn!” I wailed. “Come on! Think!”

“It’s not Joey, Matt, or Luke? Huh. You’ve got me stumped. Unless it’s someone new.” Caitlyn paused. “Someone new…you don’t mean?” She gasped. “The boy next door? What’s his name again? Kyle?”

“Yes!” I squealed excitedly.

“You go, girl!”

“But it’s not a date,” I quickly clarified.

“What do you mean?”

“He’s just thanking me for the way I helped him out today.”

“What’d you do?”

I quickly filled Caitlyn in on Kyle’s kitchen disaster and my babysitting duties. “He asked me when we were walking home from the bowling alley.”

“Was it a romantic walk? Were you holding hands? Did he try to kiss you? Details! I want details!”

“It was not a romantic walk. How romantic could it be? We were chaperoning his seven-year-old sister and five-year-old brother.”

“Bummer. But you’d like things to go in that direction, right? Come on, Emma. Don’t lie to me. I’m your best friend. I can always tell when you’re holding back.”

That was true. Whenever I had a crush on someone, I kept it to myself. It was like I was afraid to tell anyone else because if I did, I would jinx myself and then that guy wouldn’t like me.

“Remember in fifth grade when we had Secret Santas?” Caitlyn said. “I’d picked Andy Wallace’s name and you had Gus Winthrop and you begged me to give you Andy so you could be his Secret Santa. And I wouldn’t give you his name until you fessed up that you liked him.”

“For two weeks I left Christmas cookies and candy canes in his desk,” I grumbled. “And when he found out I was his Secret Santa, he complained! He said he didn’t like sugar cookies and if I ever brought him cookies again, to make sure they were chocolate chip.”

“Loser!” Caitlyn sang. “So, spill! Do you like this guy?”

“Yes, I like him,” I confessed. “But I’m not sure if he likes me.”

“That’s easy enough to fix.”

“It is?”

“Of course! We’ll make sure you look fabulous on Saturday. Like that scene in Grease when Sandy has her makeover, and Danny turns into a drooling slob when he sees her for the first time. Do you know what you’re going to wear?”

“No!” I admitted, suddenly panicked. I hadn’t even thought of my clothes. What was I going to wear?!

“Calm down! You’ve got a closet full of great things. We’ll come up with something cute. You’ve got that adorable peach top with the puffy sleeves. Oooh, and then there’s that violet sundress with the halter neck. The outfit will be easy, but what

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