Love Match by Monica Seles

Author:Monica Seles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Come to the football field.” Maya read the text aloud again. “Important.”

“It’s so vague, yet exciting,” Cleo said as they walked down the palm tree–lined pathway.

“You’re making fun of me, aren’t you?” Maya asked.

“I’m making fun of teenage intrigue,” Cleo clarified. “I can’t help it if you’re the star of that intrigue.”

Maya had to laugh. Cleo was right. Things had been pretty intriguing lately.

Days had passed since Travis declared that he wanted more than friendship with Maya. Standing in that archway, she’d wanted to say yes right away, but she told him she wasn’t ready to make that commitment. She needed time to think about it. Thankfully both their busy schedules soon got in the way of a follow-up conversation.

Maya’s postponed schoolwork started to catch up with her and practices pulled them away from each other. They spent time at the Academy Exposition meetings together, but coaches, teachers, and the school’s publicity team surrounded them from the moment they walked in the door to the time they left. It wasn’t the best setting for a private conversation.

Maya still didn’t know if she wanted more than friendship with Travis. Part of her did, but not when she thought of Jake. She couldn’t imagine telling him she was dating Travis less than a week after she told him that nothing was going on. Then again, considering how indifferent Jake had been about it, that conversation might be a lot easier than she imagined. That bothered her, too. She didn’t want Jake to be jealous, but a small part of her wouldn’t mind if he was.

“I am a horrible, horrible person.”

“Yes. That you are.”

“Cleo!”

“Maya, you haven’t done anything wrong. You’re twisting your emotions in knots to make sure you don’t do anything wrong. And for what? One guy who may or may not have schemed against you with your archenemy and another guy who fell into bed with that same enemy point-five seconds after he had the slightest reason to doubt you. If anything, you are a nicer person than either of these guys deserves.”

Cleo’s point didn’t stop Maya from worrying. It did stop her from complaining about her problems, though. Cleo had her own issues. Grant Adams had stepped up his attacks on her and, more importantly, that girl Cleo had met at 360 never even called her back.

Cleo’s arm shot out, grabbing Maya and pulling her to the ground. “Duck!”

The girls dropped behind a shrub. Living on a campus full of athletes, the average student was accustomed to swerving out of the way of balls, pucks, javelins, and rogue Frisbees. The past few days had added one more thing for the girls to avoid: cell phone cameras.

“Amateur paparazzo at three o’clock,” Cleo explained.

Maya peeked over the shrub in time to see the frustrated girl put away her phone and stomp off in the opposite direction. “I don’t get it. We weren’t even doing anything.”

“Maya, you’re about to walk onto the football field, where the two guys you’ve been linked to on the Wall are practicing.

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