Not Exactly Lying (Bayview High Book 2) by Melody Summers

Author:Melody Summers [Summers, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA Romance, coming of age
Publisher: Melody Summers
Published: 2017-04-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Whatever Quinn and Walker said, nobody bothered me after that. The whispering died down almost completely—at least when I was around to hear it. Quinn stayed away, too. At first I wasn’t sure if it was to avoid giving any more fuel to the rumors or if it was because he’d gotten tired of me telling him no, but whenever I went into the halls I could usually spot him somewhere conveniently nearby, watching me with a totally wicked grin playing on his lips when our eyes met. No, he hadn’t moved on.

There was speculation about that, too—that he was dating a girl from another school or even a college girl from A&M Corpus Christi. He did nothing to dispel that idea, but I knew better. I knew it every time I caught his eye.

With that unpleasantness at an end, I settled into the school routine with my new friends. Ashton turned out to be a great guy, and if it hadn’t been for my hopeless crush on Quinn I might just have fallen for him. Not that it would have done me any good. He and Dannika were just as crazy about each other as Delaney and Walker, even if they refused to admit it.

Then there was my chemistry lab partner, Daniel Foster. He was brainy, cute in a geeky way, and painfully shy until he figured out that I was even worse. After that he opened up a lot and we ended up having a good time together in class. I found out that he was a gamer, too, and I almost confessed my Valkyrie secret identity to him. I chickened out, though, because I had just gotten out from under all the talk about me and Quinn and wasn’t about to risk starting up a whole new mess of gossip.

The second week of school we had our first pep rally of the year. Instead of hiding out in the bathroom until it was over like a sane person, Delaney and the others dragged me to the gym with them. We sat in the very back row of bleachers with me in the middle—probably so I couldn’t escape. It was even worse than the cafeteria at lunch. Everyone on the opposite side of the gym could look right at me.

“I can’t wait to see Walker,” Delaney burbled. “He is going to kick some serious butt tonight.”

She was too far gone to see the state of my nerves, but Dannika noticed and gave my hand a reassuring squeeze.

“It’s okay, Molls. No one is watching you. Look.”

And she was right. No one was. Their eyes were all on the cheerleaders as they bounced out onto the gym floor. Still, I wasn’t remotely comfortable and couldn’t wait for it to be over.

The cheerleaders moved off to the side and the band began to play for all it was worth as the football players charged through the double doors.

Delaney sat upright and pointed. “There’s Walker! Isn’t he so cute in his uniform? Squee!”

Allison rolled her eyes in disgust.

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