Love-Struck by Rachael Wing

Author:Rachael Wing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2013-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

I went to work on the Saturday still feeling a little bit numb from confusion. I didn’t know quite how to feel – I’d obviously been stood up, but Robin “Fittest of Them All” Goodfellow had recognized me from his shows! That doesn’t happen every day! But neither does a date with Jonah.

I had my iPod hidden in my pocket with one earphone in, listening to a bit of therapy. I hadn’t had time to tell Wes yet, but I’d just tell him at his later. I was supposed to be going around after work, but I wasn’t really in the mood to fix up someone else when I’d just been scammed. There was a hole where all my excitement and happiness had been the day before that only a large tub of half Butterscotch and Malteaser, half SuperChocolate could fill.

You’ve shot me down

But I’ve realized

That I wasn’t your first target.

Girls like you, you drive me wild

And it’s girls like you I’d rather forget.

As I polished Ozzie’s counter absentmindedly for the third time, a pair of hands appeared leaning on the counter in front of me. I looked up angrily – because this selfish person was putting greasy fingerprints on to my nice and shiny counter – ready to politely offer my services so they would get right off my lovely clean top.

Our eyes collided like a car crash.

I looked down to the top again, humiliated, and polished harder.

“Hi, how can I help?” I asked, trying to not let too much venom soak into my words.

“You could listen to my apology for why I was a jerk and didn’t turn up last night?” Jonah murmured, trying to catch my eye, but I wouldn’t look up into his face. I would never look at it the same way again; that evil, conniving but beautiful face. I was beginning to think that he was a bit like Angel from Buffy: all gorgeous and drooly on the outside, but a vampire on the inside. Vampires have a natural instinct to kill and stuff, and Jonah had a natural instinct to be a jerk. See my train of thought? Then Jonah was obviously Angel. And if he was Angel then that would make me Buffy, which I’m not going to argue about because she’s a bit gorgeous, but I’d have to lay off the leather pants a bit, and do something about the nose.

But Angel and Buffy get together. Maybe we were supposed to be together, like we were destined. Like he was supposed to be a jerk and I was supposed to be a fitty, and we were supposed to be a couple.

Seeing his gorgeous, evil face had made my head turn mush again, and it made the little brain that I had so confused that it had completely abandoned my body and voice. I stopped polishing like my life depended on it, and just stood there, dumb like an empty puppet.

He slid into the high stool in front of me.

“I was going to come, I promise.

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