Me Myself Milly by Penelope Bush

Author:Penelope Bush [Bush, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9781848122550
Publisher: Piccadilly Press Ltd.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I used to fancy a boy at school. His name was Ben and I couldn’t stop thinking about him. I never told anyone how much I fancied him, not even Lily. He was in the year above us, so I only ever saw him in assembly or during break and lunchtimes or on the bus. He didn’t get on our bus but that was the best time, because I could sit on the bus pretending to gaze out of the window, when really I was looking at him while he waited at the bus stop.

Lily was always telling me which boys she fancied and she’d even been out with some of them, but I never told her about Ben. He was my secret. He was special and I didn’t want to ruin it by talking about him. I daydreamed all the time about meeting up with him, maybe in the park or bumping into him in town and walking round together, and how he’d hold my hand or put his arm round me or buy me a bracelet that I could wear all the time to remind me of him.

Writing about it now makes it sound pathetic but it wasn’t.

But then one night, when we were doing our homework, Lily said, ‘Have you seen that boy in year ten? Ben. He’s drop-dead gorgeous.’

I pretended I didn’t know who she was talking about, but my heart and my brain were in turmoil.

Was she winding me up? Did she somehow know? And why was she calling him ‘drop-dead gorgeous’? Lily didn’t normally say things like that; she was more likely to say she wouldn’t mind a piece of him or something more crude. I sensed a trap.

‘So you’re not interested in him, then?’ she asked.

‘I might be – if I knew who you meant,’ I said in what I hoped was a bored-sounding voice.

She let it drop and we carried on with our homework. I was more careful after that. I stopped gazing at him out of the bus window; I sat on the other side and I mentioned a few other boys to put her off the scent.

But about a month after that the worst thing happened. I was eating my lunch when I looked up and saw Lily talking to him. They were too far away for me to hear what was being said but I didn’t need to. Everything about Lily made it obvious. She was standing quite close to him and looking up at him through her eyelashes. God! And she was twisting a strand of hair round and round her finger at the same time. Pathetic! She looked like some idiot heroine out of a gushy romance film.

I couldn’t eat any more of my lunch and I didn’t talk to her for the rest of the day, but she didn’t seem to notice. When I got on the bus I couldn’t stop myself from sitting on the pavement side to get a look at him. Then I wished I hadn’t because Lily was there, talking to him again.

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