Resisting the Rebel by Lisa Brown Roberts

Author:Lisa Brown Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Teen, YA, young adult, YA romance, teen romance, Lisa Brown Roberts, Rebel, category romance, category, enemies to lovers, fake boyfriend, fake girlfriend
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Half an hour later, they’d completed a mind map outline in a mix of Caleb’s precise printing and Mandy’s messy scrawl. Two hours and four cookies later, they’d finished a rough draft.

“Cheers,” Caleb said, raising his coffee mug, surprised at how relieved he felt. And proud. “You did it.” It had been painful for both of them, but somehow he’d helped her tease out the major points she wanted to cover. When she stuck to those and didn’t wander the way her conversations did, she might have a shot at a decent grade from Spriggs.

She tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear and gave him a tentative smile that threatened to melt him.

“We did it.” She took a deep breath. “Thank you, Caleb.” Her smile deepened. She didn’t look like an electrocuted disco hippie right now. Or maybe she did, but something had shifted in the way he saw her, because now she looked…amazing. Vulnerable. Sweet. Tempting.

She leaned across the table, and he caught a whiff of her perfume. It reminded him of how close they kept coming to kissing. Real kissing, not fake. He squeezed his coffee mug harder, wishing it were still hot enough to burn his hands.

“You were awesome today,” she said. “I’m sorry I got so defensive earlier. It’s just…” She shrugged. “I’m used to people making fun of me. But you didn’t. So, thank you.” Her eyes drew him in like green whirlpools.

No shenanigans.

“You’re welcome.” This afternoon had been good. Really good. Just the two of them. If they could just do this, without pretending for Elle or Gus, or fending off cock-block Cammie or the suspicious Blue Ranger, maybe they could actually…be together. For real.

But that wasn’t possible. This had been a weird window in time.

“So are you going to be a famous writer someday?” she asked, jolting him back to the present. “Since words are your superpower?”

He hesitated, then found himself telling her something he never told anyone. “Uh…I hope so. Someday.”

She nodded. “That’s great. I can say, ‘Hey, I know that famous best-selling author! He helped me not fail American Lit!’”

She grinned at him and he grinned back, aware that he’d smiled more with her than with anyone else, ever. And then he remembered that all of this would probably end soon, because she wanted the Octo-Gus, not him.

He scraped his chair away from the table and stood up. “Come on, I’ll drive you home.”

She stared up at him, and he hoped it wasn’t a flash of hurt he saw in her eyes. But then it was gone, and she gathered her stuff to follow him to his car.

They’d only driven a couple of blocks before she piped up. “You have to pay up on your end of the deal, Caleb. Tell me why you cut classes.”

He glanced at her, debating how much to say to this girl…this weird, funny girl who might only be his fake girlfriend, but was someone he could almost see turning into a real friend. And more, if he had any say in how things went.

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