Romancing the Nerd by Miller Leah Rae

Author:Miller, Leah Rae [Miller, Leah Rae]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: revenge, Rainbow Rowell, contemporary romance, geek romance, best friends, Stephanie Perkins, live action role playing
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Dan

Dear hand, what the hell do you think you are doing? I’m hoping that scold will be enough to calm myself until I can have a good discussion with my body and how it needs to stop betraying me. Hopefully, Maddie will be here and I can sit both Zelda and her down. Once I start telling them about effyeahFinityGirl, I’m sure all randy thoughts of Zelda-freaking-Potts will leave my head.

Logan is behind the counter. “Dude!” he says when he sees me. We give each other a manly hug, slapping each other a couple of times on the back, because that’s what real men do. They acknowledge the bro-love and are never embarrassed about it.

Logan’s mom and the owner of The Phoenix, Martha, sticks her head out of the office and is happy to see me, too, but her smile quickly becomes laced with suspicion. She squints at me. “It’s good to see you, Daniel, but shouldn’t you be in school?”

I hold up my hands in defeat. “I know, but Zelda and I needed to take a, uh, personal day. High school’s tough for those like us.”

I hear a muffled scoff from somewhere…below me? Zelda and I both look over the edge of the counter underneath the register. Maddie is nicely ensconced beneath a shelf that holds all the regulars’ bags of pulled comics. She grabs Logan’s foot and he sits back on his stool before she puts him off balance. She opens a red Sharpie, fine tip, and goes to work on his shoe.

“Why is she desecrating a perfectly good pair of Chucks?” I ask, and Zelda nods like she, too, needs to know the answer.

Logan shrugs and rolls his eyes like he has no idea and he’s annoyed by it, but I also see that stupid puppy-love look that means this makes him infinitely happy.

Ew.

“Cheerleader, if you could maybe stop vandalizing footwear for a moment, I need to speak with you and Zelda in the backroom.” I take the Batgirl comic from Zelda’s hands and place it on the counter.

“I was reading that,” she says as I drag her down the hall. She stares back longingly at the comic, and the friendship bracelet on her wrist, which I currently have my fingers wrapped around, is as soft as my favorite hoodie. The whole situation makes me want to talk about effyeahFinityGirl even more because, damn it, could Zelda stop being attractive in all the right ways? I’m here to get advice on winning over FinityGirl, not to fan the fires that was—“was” being the most important word—a silly thing for Zelda that will never come to fruition.

“Please take a seat.” I motion to a couple of white long boxes, the kind made for storing comics.

Maddie turns to Zelda. “I love this skirt, Zel. And you paired it with that shirt? Genius. I wish I was creative like you.”

I halt that conversation before it goes any further. “Okay, fingers on lips.” I demonstrate what I mean by making the shush gesture.

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