It Had to Be You by Lizzy Charles

Author:Lizzy Charles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Crush, Teen, Teen romance, YA, YA romance, romance, Mandy Hubbard, Miranda Kenneally, boarding school romance, multicultural romance, fake relationship, interracial, bad boy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

James

Well…that was…I mean…

The faded blue lines on the page of my notebook blur. My chest feels like it’s floating above my head while my legs are cemented to the floor. I’m terrified that if I move an inch, I’ll end up chasing her down to pick up where we left off. My Pop Rock–peppered lips tingle, still shocked at meeting hers. The moment she brushed her lips into mine, I couldn’t let her go if I tried. Instead, I scooped her closer and… Well, I freaked her out.

The look on her face afterward spoke a thousand words. No girl has ever packed up and left me to go do something better before.

It should sting. I should be offended that she doesn’t see what a “great opportunity” she just had, and that thought—to the bottom of my soul—disgusts me.

It’s exactly what I thought last year about myself, an excuse to jump from girl to girl because I was giving them all a gift: me.

My stomach turns over. I should have let that magazine hit me in the face.

Edelweiss tasted my ego. No wonder she bolted with her books clutched to her chest like I’d stung her.

My phone vibrates on the table. Damn it. Dad will have Julie move me out of the dorms by morning if he hears about this from Edel’s father.

When I flip it over, I’m astonished that his text has nothing to do with Edelweiss. He can make it to the football game next week for senior night! Julie offered to stand next to me when she found out Dad couldn’t make it, but considering I still need to wade through eight more months of Brockmore, it wouldn’t be worth giving up our charade. It’d be too easy for people to attribute all I’ve achieved at Brockmore to simply being the headmistress’s nephew. I don’t want people to doubt what I’ve earned through hard work—every A or all of the pieces I’ve had placed on literary websites and in magazines. Not to mention the bombardment of complaints from some of the football booster parents who probably would assume I’m a starter because Julie forced the coach to put me there.

Yes. Keeping Julie separate from me at Brockmore is crucial.

I glance back down at Dad’s text and grin. Having Dad there will be amazing. The first time I introduced my dad to the team during my freshman year they thought I was pulling a prank. No one expects a black athlete to have a white, freckled Irish father, especially not genetically.

Edelweiss will like him a lot. That is, she’ll like him if she’s still willing to help me out.

I dial her number, pressing the phone to my ear on my way out of the library. “Edelweiss?”

“Yeah?” Her voice is weak.

Yup. I royally messed this up. Again.

“Where are you?”

“Outside.” A warmer sound of her voice floats through the air, not just through the phone. She’s near.

“Edel?” I call out, hanging up the phone.

She steps out from the far corner of the library, her bag still clutched to her chest.

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