Lana's Ex Prom Date by Amy Sparling

Author:Amy Sparling [Sparling, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Amazon: B01N2N4BGL
Goodreads: 32930198
Publisher: Amy Sparling Books
Published: 2016-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

This might be the first time I haven’t immediately told Ashlyn and Bennet about mortifying myself in front of a guy I liked. Usually I rush to them anytime anything embarrassing happens. If it’s particularly bad and it’s kind of a girl thing, I’ll just tell Ashlyn and spare Bennet.

But this time I did nothing.

I kissed Toby and he clearly didn’t want to be kissed. And I haven’t told anyone. I guess some things are so embarrassing they have to stay secrets forever, no matter how much you love your best friends.

Plus, I can already see Bennet’s reaction in my mind. He’d probably laugh at me and tell me that I had it coming for dating someone he doesn’t think I’m good enough to be dating. Ugh.

Toby mysteriously disappears after homeroom, and I don’t blame him. I also don’t look for him after school. When the bell rings, I find Ashlyn outside of the locker room just like always. We walk to Bennet’s car, and although he lifts an eyebrow when he sees me, he doesn’t say anything. I do what I consider Oscar-worthy acting on the ride home. I can’t let them know anything is wrong, so I put on a smile and laugh and their jokes and complain about my science teacher for being a bitch.

The whole thing goes off perfectly, but by the time I get to The Book Attic to work, I’m exhausted from pretending everything is okay.

Aunt Shawna, being the sage older woman she is, knows something is up. She doesn’t say anything but I can tell by the quirk of her eyebrow when I walk in the front door. She knows. Luckily, she’s nice enough to keep it to herself.

She works the front desk while I run around the store, restocking her newest used book purchases. Every time we get three or four of the same book in the teen section, I pull one out to donate to our junior high school library. Two years ago, they had a fire and lost all of their books and there’s no money in the budget to replace them all at once.

I always get excited when we get duplicates at the store of something that’s new and on the best seller list because I know the library will appreciate the donation. I like to think I’m single handedly making some teen’s day when they go to their library and find a great book that I donated to them.

Later, when we’re twenty minutes from closing the shop, all of our customers fade out slowly and it’s just Aunt Shawna and me. “How’s school?” she says while she pulls the hair tie out of her pony tail. She begins twisting her long white hair into a bun that she secures with a pencil. “You ready to graduate?”

I shrug and grab the feather duster under the counter because the shelves behind the register are getting a little dusty. “It’ll be nice to be out of there, but then I have to be a grown up so that’s no fun.

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