Puck Buddies by Tara Brown

Author:Tara Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2016-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The cheeseball platter for one

Sami

I pace back and forth again, glancing at my outfit as I pass the mirror. I last three minutes before I do the thing I promised myself I wouldn’t until after New Year’s. I tap in the number and press the phone against my face as I take up pacing again.

“Sami?” Linda answers.

“Hey, I need to ask something quick.” I hate that I couldn’t make it a week without calling.

“Okay. But it’s Christmas Eve. You know that, right?” she asks quietly. It sounds like she’s getting up to go into another room.

“Yes, that’s why I’m calling.”

“Did your parents go to London again?”

“Oh probably.” I brush it off. “But that’s not why I’m calling.”

“Do you remember what we talked about last Christmas, and the one before that?”

“Yeah, Linda. I’m not calling to talk about that. Seriously.” I hate it when she tries to shrink me. I’m comfortable with the level of dysfunction I have with my parents. “We’re having dinner tonight, together. Me and Matt. Alone. Like a date. Help.” I squeeze my eyes shut and take a deep breath.

“I see.” She sounds confused. “So after that whole ambush we planned like teenagers would have, he asked you to have Christmas Eve dinner with him? Just the two of you?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh shit. No more games, Sami. This guy likes you. A lot. Guys don’t do Christmas unless they like you. Ever. So if you don’t genuinely like him, abort. Now. There are real feelings at stake here.”

“You think?”

“I know. It’s what I get paid the big bucks for. To know this kind of stuff. You need to call him and cancel if you aren’t ready to completely let your guard down and try to have a real relationship. Not one of your boy toys, where you string them along because you need a date for an event.”

I don’t want to tell her I like him too. I don’t want to jinx it. “Just tell me what to do.”

“I can’t do that. I have to tell you the truth, that’s our deal. How do you feel about him? Be honest. No Sami Ford bullshit.”

“I don’t know. I mean, he’s just different. I’ve been watching his hockey games and he’s really—”

“You watched his games? Jesus, Sami. This is serious.” Her tone is funny again.

“I don’t know.”

“Let’s focus on the important stuff. You watched his game; you clearly like him more than the other guys you’ve dated. And honestly, he’s the first one I’ve seen you act like this with. We’ve been talking about him for years. You dated that last guy for a while, and I can’t so much as recall his name, but Matt has been the one constant since you left high school. You need to think about that.”

“I am. That’s why I’m calling. This is important.”

“Well, Christmas Eve is a whole other ball of wax. This will be a pinnacle moment at the start or end of a possible relationship. Either this is the guy you finally let in or you will turn him away.

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