Persuade by Wendi Wilson

Author:Wendi Wilson [Wilson, Wendi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Wait. Tell me everything that happened. Every single detail.”

Jett rolled his eyes at Beckett, and I didn’t blame him. We had already detailed everything that happened on the pier, leaving out our make out session, of course.

We’d driven straight to school from the pier and texted Beckett and Wyatt to meet us out front. Wyatt visited each of our last three classes and persuaded our teachers to mark all four of us present so we wouldn’t get into trouble.

I was starving, so we went to Lucille’s so I could get some food while we explained. I ate a giant cheeseburger and most of my fries, but I still felt a gnawing in my belly. I tried to ignore it as we talked.

“Jett and I were dancing,” I said, “and I teased him about something. He started stalking me and I got nervous and told him to stop.”

“Why’d you get nervous?” Wyatt asked. “If you were teasing him and he was teasing you, there would be no reason to be scared. Right?” He shot Jett a stern look, like maybe he did something we weren’t telling them.

Jett looked at me with raised eyebrows. “Why did you get nervous? We were just playing around and it was like someone flipped a switch and you were yelling at me to stop.”

I could feel a blush burning up my chest and across my face. I looked down and shoved a few fries in my mouth, taking a drink of soda to wash them down past the lump in my throat. I really didn’t want to tell them, but I didn’t want to lie, either.

“Savanna?” Beckett said from beside me, grasping my shoulder and kneading some of the tension out.

“You can tell us anything,” Wyatt added.

I looked at each of them, identical looks of concern on three identical faces. Their worry made the backs of my eyes burn. I felt lucky to have these three in my life and I hoped what I was about to tell them didn’t disgust them or make them wash their hands of me. I took a stuttering breath and let it out slowly.

“Jett and I were…kissing,” I said, shooting Jett an apologetic look for breaking their don’t-kiss-and-tell rule. I refused to look at the other two to see how they reacted to my words. Beckett’s fingers continued to massage my shoulder, so that was a good sign. “Afterward, I was teasing him about losing his cool—”

“What did you do?” Wyatt demanded, cutting me off.

“He didn’t do anything I didn’t want,” I answered before Jett could respond. “Cut it out or I’m not going to be able to get through this.”

“Sorry,” he mumbled, motioning for me to continue.

“He started stalking me, playfully, like I said. He smiled at me, flashing his teeth and I…”

“Did you think I was going to attack you or something?” Jett asked in a hurt voice when I trailed off.

“No! No, I…uh…God, this is hard.”

“It’s okay, Savanna,” Beckett whispered near my ear. “Nothing you could say will make us think less of you.

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