More Than Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram

Author:Kelly Oram
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: teen, superhero, YA, Contemporary, Romance, sci fi
Publisher: Bluefields
Published: 2013-10-13T07:00:00+00:00

I sighed as I turned the car off and stared out the front window at my dorm building. I didn’t know how Ryan, Teddy, and I were going to ditch Becky without her noticing, but we needed to.

“Beck?” I asked. “Are you going to be okay if I ditch you tonight? After what happened?”

Becky sighed. “How did I know that was coming?” The smile she gave me filled me with relief. “I don’t blame you for wanting to stay with Ryan tonight. Go. I’ll be fine as long as Teddy walks me to my door and checks my closet for monsters before he leaves.”

Teddy met my eyes in the mirror. “Go on,” I told him. “Be a gentleman and walk a pretty girl to her door.”

Teddy still hesitated. The look he shot me clearly implored that I be here when he got back.

Please. As if I would ditch him before I got answers? I gave him a barely perceptible nod, assuring him that I didn’t plan on going anywhere. Ryan noticed the exchange and suddenly blurted, “No, Beck, you and Teddy should still go out,” surprising both Teddy and me. At our questioning looks he shrugged. “It’s barely eleven,” he said. “Just because our night’s over, doesn’t mean theirs has to end.”

Ryan turned fully around in his seat and smiled a big, phony smile at Teddy. “Some of the guys were talking about a party this afternoon. Becky can call Sean. He’ll know where it is.”

Becky’s face lit up. “You sure you guys don’t want to come, too?”

I shook my head. “Sorry. Being mugged at gunpoint sort of killed my mood to party. Besides, I wasn’t feeling well before I was attacked, remember?”

Becky didn’t question that at all. She’d told me I looked awful several times at the club tonight.

“I’m not really in the mood to go, either,” Teddy said. He sent one scathing glare at Ryan, but covered it up so quickly I wasn’t sure I’d seen it. At least I wasn’t until he said, “Doing keg stands with a bunch of dim-witted jocks isn’t exactly my idea of a good time.”

I barely had time to be insulted on Ryan’s behalf before Teddy shot him an equally fake smile and said, “No offense.”

It took Ryan a minute to respond, and the “None taken” he’d managed to choke out sounded dangerous. Anyone should have been scared by it, but Teddy refused to back off, staying locked in an epic stare down with him.

The tension between the two of them was so thick that Becky and I could only sit there and gape at one another. “Oooookaaaaay then,” Becky said and yanked Teddy from the car. “Teddy, walk me to my door.”

It wasn’t a request, and judging from the look on Becky’s face Teddy was in for quite the lecture. I mouthed a silent “thank you” her direction and she smiled. “Don’t worry. I’ll straighten him out.”

“What do you mean ‘straighten me out’?” Teddy grumbled as Becky dragged him off. Literally dragged him.

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