Lust - 1 by Robin Wasserman

Author:Robin Wasserman [Wasserman, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Interpersonal Relations, General, Social Issues, Espionage, Action & Adventure, Friendship, Man-Woman Relationships, Schools, School & Education, Love & Romance, Family & Relationships, Dating & Sex, High Schools, Interpersonal Relations in Adolescence, Conduct of Life
ISBN: 9780689877827
Google: cNAEG4u3f-MC
Amazon: 068987782X
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2005-09-27T07:00:00+00:00

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8

It had been two days.

Beth and Adam stil weren’t speaking to each other—and Beth was desperate.

Which was the only possible explanation for her cal . A last, the very last, resort.

And after al , there was no one else. She hated to admit it, but after getting together with Adam, she’d drifted away from most of her girlfriends. There was nowhere else to turn.

Desperation sucked.

She flipped open her smal Winnie the Pooh phone book to the right page—after al this time, she stil didn’t know the number by heart—and began to dial.

“Hey, Harper, it’s … Beth,” she said timidly, once the other girl had answered the phone. And they began to chat. Awkwardly pushing through al possible areas of smal talk (big surprise, there weren’t too many), Harper at least had the grace not to ask, “Yeah, but what do you real y want?” though Beth was sure it was at the forefront of her mind. And why not?

When had she ever cal ed Harper “just to chat”?

As Harper prattled on about something that had happened to Mr. Greenfield’s toupee during third period, Beth asked herself again whether she real y wanted to have this conversation. Whether she could actual y bring herself to have it out loud. She shuffled through some papers on her desk, began doodling on the back of one, nothing but meaningless scribbles, but it passed the time and calmed her down. Final y, she glanced over at the bed, which she’d neglected to make that morning. The sheets and comforter were tangled and strewn haphazardly across its surface; it seemed a bigger mess than one person could possibly have made on her own, even tossing and turning al night, as she had. It was the bed that convinced her; she didn’t want to be on her own there, not forever.

“Harper, can I ask you something?” she interrupted. Harper was still talking, laughing about whatever it was she’d just divulged, but she broke off immediately, sensing the tension in Beth’s voice.

“Of course.”

“Wel …” Beth had no idea how to begin. “You and I have spent a lot of time together, but we don’t real y know each other that wel , I mean, I guess we’re not real y friends.…”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Harper said quickly. “Anyone important to Adam is a part of my life. You know how close we are.” Beth felt a quick stab of pain at the words—yes, of course she knew how close Adam and Harper were. Hadn’t she suffered through hours of conversation about how wonderful Harper was? What a great friend she was? How misunderstood she was? Like she needed a reminder that her boyfriend considered some other girl his best friend, maybe his soul mate. (He’d never said it aloud … but then, Beth had never had the nerve to ask, not wanting to hear the answer.) Platonic soul mate, she reminded herself—and, after al , why else had she picked up the phone?

“You do know him better than anyone else—probably better than I do,” Beth admitted, gritting her teeth.

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