Pretty Little Liars 01 - Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Author:Sara Shepard [Shepard, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

Pretty Little Liars

15 Insulting His Masculinity Is Such a Deal Breaker

‘You guys are looking lazy. I want to see better form!’ Coach Lauren yelled at them from the deck.

On Thursday afternoon, Emily bobbed with the other swimmers in the crystal blue water of Rosewood’s Anderson Memorial Natatorium, listening to their youngish, former-Olympian coach, Lauren Kinkaid, scream at them. The pool was twenty-five yards wide, fifty yards long, with a small diving well. Huge skylights mirrored the length of the pool, so when you did backstrokes in the evening, you could look up and see the stars.

Emily held on to the wall and pulled her cap over her ears. Okay, better form. She needed to really concentrate today.

Last night, after getting back from the creek with Maya, she’d lain on her bed for a long time, flip-flopping from feeling warm and happy about the fun she and Maya had had . . . to feeling uneasy and antsy about Maya’s confession. I’m not sure I like guys. I think I’d like someone more like me. Did Maya mean what Emily thought she meant?

Thinking about how giddy Maya had been at the waterfall – not to mention how much they’d tickled and touched each other – Emily felt nervous. After getting home last night, she’d rifled through her swimming bag for that note from A from the day before. She read it over and over again, picking apart every word until her eyes blurred.

By dinnertime, Emily decided she needed to throw herself back into swimming. No more skipped practices. No more slacking. From now on, she’d be the model swimmer girl.

Ben paddled over to her and put his hands on the wall. ‘I missed you yesterday.’

‘Mmmm.’ She should make a new start with Ben, too. With his freckles, piercing blue eyes, slightly stubbly jaw, and beautifully chiseled swimmer’s body, he was hot, right? She tried to imagine Ben jumping off the Marwyn trail bridge. Would he laugh or think it was immature?

‘So where were you?’ Ben asked, blowing on his goggles to defog them.

‘Tutoring for Spanish.’

‘Wanna come over to my house after practice? My parents won’t be home till eight.’

‘I . . . I’m not sure if I can.’ Emily pushed away from the wall and started to tread water. She stared down at her blurrily pumping legs and feet.

‘Why not?’ Ben pushed off the wall to join her.

‘Because . . .’ She couldn’t come up with an excuse.

‘You know you want to,’ Ben whispered. He took some water into his hands and began splashing her. Maya had done the same thing yesterday, but this time Emily jerked away.

Ben stopped splashing. ‘What?’

‘Don’t.’

Ben put his hands around her waist. ‘No? You don’t like to get splashed?’ he asked in a baby voice.

She took his hands off her. ‘Don’t.’

He backed away. ‘Fine.’

Sighing, Emily floated over to the other side of the lane. She liked Ben, she really did. Maybe she should just go over to Ben’s after swimming. They’d watch TiVo’ed episodes of American Chopper, eat pizza delivered from DiSilvio’s, and he’d feel underneath her unsexy sports bra.

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