Out of His League by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Veronica

Friends. Drew Remi wanted to be friends. A full twenty-four hours later and I still couldn’t quite wrap my head around this new turn of events.

I sat in Trent’s basement with him and Margo. They’d insisted that I come over to hang out on Sunday night before school began. Some of the guys were coming over too—Sunday nights at Trent’s was a longstanding tradition, just like videogames after school was tradition. But Sunday nights involved Doctor Who marathons or binge-watching the Marvel movies. They were a night to camp out in front of his family’s old TV and forget the Sunday blues.

My Sunday blues should have been through-the-roof bad. I mean, tomorrow morning I was going to have to face the people who’d laughed at me, like Melody and her friends. Not to mention Alex and Tina, the stars of last night’s melodrama.

Maybe Drew was right. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe they really had forgotten and I was the only one who was obsessing over it.

To be fair, I was only obsessing over the beer-in-face incident when I wasn’t obsessing over my conversation with Drew Remi.

In the grand scope of things, it was hard to say which was more surreal—living the kind of horrifying high school party moment I thought only took place in cheesy teen movies or having a one-on-one bonding night with Drew Remi.

Drew Remi. He was not just another former classmate, he was the former classmate. He was the kid who’d been too cool for the rest of us. He’d been the one who led the high school baseball team to championships when he was a freshman.

This was the alpha male who every guy wanted to be and every girl secretly wanted to date. No one could admit it, of course, because every girl was at least a little bit afraid of April Ramsey.

Including me.

Oh, I wasn’t scared-scared. I knew I could take her in a fight, just like I could take Tina. But she was intimidating in her own way. She was socially powerful, if not physically terrifying.

Kind of like Tina.

Margo sank down onto the seat next to me. “Want to talk about it?”

I cringed, not because Margo had bad breath or something but because she was such a girl. And I don’t mean that in a mean way, I mean it in an “I’m a weirdo” way, because I wished it came easily to me, opening up like that. To see a friend hanging out and be like “hey, want to talk?”

No. I’d spent too much time with Trent and the other guys. Even my former teammates and I didn’t do that kind of thing. We razzed each other, we had inside jokes and sat silently and played video games beside one another for hours on end. But have deep, meaningful one-on-one talks?

I don’t think so.

Not until Margo came into my life. And now, apparently, Drew Remi. Because whether I could fully wrap my head around it or not, he and I had talked.

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