Katie's Secret Admirer by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2014-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

It was so difficult for Katie to watch Annabel and Josh together and not say anything. She didn’t think that he’d spotted her and Megan watching him with Amy, but maybe he had and he just didn’t care? He turned up to chat to Annabel in the bit of lunch that was left after the practice, and he seemed to be smirking whenever Katie looked at him (which was as little as possible). Several times that afternoon Katie nearly blurted out what she’d seen, but something always stopped her. Generally it was the blissful expression on Bel’s face as she daydreamed her way through lessons. It was not the face of someone who wanted to be told that their boyfriend was a louse.

When they got home on Tuesday night she did tell Becky, who wasn’t at all surprised.

“Poor Bel! That’s so awful, she’ll be gutted! David’s always said how mean Josh is, but I never thought he’d do something like that.”

A flash of irritation lit up in Katie. Honestly! Didn’t Becky even think without David these days? But Becky didn’t seem to notice. She was surprised that Katie didn’t want to tell Annabel what was going on, though.

“But we have to tell her!” she said, stroking one of her bunches against her cheek worriedly. “We have to, Katie! We can’t let her go on thinking how wonderful he is, that’s not fair!”

Katie shrugged. Megan’s common sense had worked on her by now, however much she didn’t want it to. “You tell her then.”

Becky put the end of her hair in her mouth, and chewed it, her eyes panicky.

“Becky, there’s no point in telling her, because she just won’t believe us, and we’ll only make her upset – and angry with us too. And if she’s not talking to us there’ll be nobody to help her sort it out when it all goes pear-shaped. All Josh actually did was talk to Amy – and put his arm round her. I mean, you could see they were flirting, but we can’t prove it.”

“I can’t believe you’re so calm about this.” Becky sounded quite hurt – it seemed almost as if Katie didn’t care.

Katie sighed exasperatedly. “I’m not calm! I wanted to go and throttle him, and that rat Amy! But I talked about it with Megan after practice, and she made me see that there was no point trying to rescue Bel when she doesn’t want to be rescued. We just have to wait.”

Becky managed to look even more hurt – she did that trick where her eyes seemed to be swimming in tears, which in Katie’s current mood just made her want to throttle Becky as well as Josh and Amy.

“Don’t look at me like that! Megan was there and you weren’t. You were probably painting hearts with David, or talking to David, or thinking about David.”

Katie glared at her sister and stomped out of the room, starting to feel really, really guilty before she’d even got to the door…

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