Romeo & What's Her Name by Shani Petroff

Author:Shani Petroff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

20

When the bell rang for lunch, I booked it back to Wes’s locker.

I was nearly out of breath by the time I reached him. I really needed more exercise than the occasional game of cart-lympics.

“Hey,” he said, and gave me a big smile.

“Hey,” I answered. He seemed happy to see me, but that meant he probably didn’t know about the picture. I had to get it over with. Rip off the Band-Aid. “I have a confession. I did something stupid. Again.”

He raised an eyebrow. I scrunched my eyes closed and kept going, letting the words run from my mouth. “I was looking at all the pictures we were tagged in from the scene and somehow I wound up on your brother’s page and my computer got a mind of its own and I tagged myself in one of his pictures. It was an accident.” Okay, I may have veered slightly from my plan to disclose everything, like how I was spying because of my massive crush, but it was scary to be that open.

“Yeah, Neal showed me that last night. I figured it was some sort of mistake.”

I opened my eyes back up. Was he serious? Did he really not think it was a big deal?

“One time,” he said, “I accidentally clicked ‘love’ on a post where my uncle announced he and my aunt were getting a divorce. I didn’t even realize I did it until my mom said something. My finger must have touched it while I was swiping on my phone. Who knows what else I accidentally liked? Dogfighting rings? End-of-the-world theories? Crazy political posts? I swear if that has happened, it wasn’t me, just my fat fingers.”

Once again, Wes had managed to turn around an embarrassing situation and made me smile. I wanted to go to the dance with him now more than ever. I wasn’t going to have a repeat of his bar mitzvah. This time, I was asking him to be my date.

“Did you hit ‘like’ for the dance?” I asked. “I was thinking it would be fun, and I was…” Spit it out, Emily! “wondering if you had plans?”

Wes shifted on his feet and looked kind of awkward. Before he could answer, Amanda shimmied up and slid under his arm. “He’s going with me.”

What?!

This couldn’t be happening. It felt as if my blood had stopped flowing and an invisible force had managed to thrust a hand all the way to my heart and ripped it out. I might have looked normal on the outside, but on the inside I was hollow.

He. Was. Going. To. The. Dance. With. Amanda.

How was this possible? Just yesterday Wes had almost kissed me. Had I read it all wrong? I couldn’t even think straight.

“You weren’t trying to ask Wes out, were you?” Amanda asked, and gave a haughty little laugh like the idea was so outlandish. I hated her. First day back to school after days in the hospital, and she couldn’t even pretend to be nice? “You know,” she continued, “I thought you were into Neal, at least according to GroupIt.

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