So Glad to Meet You by Lisa Super

Author:Lisa Super [Super, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635763966
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2018-07-31T07:00:00+00:00

The Sahara Desert

Oliver Pagano had kinda/sorta asked her out on Valentine’s Day, and she had said no. As she lay in bed staring at the ceiling, that fact grated her like scratches on a turntable. She tried to convince herself she’d done the right thing by shutting him down. He hadn’t exactly asked her out, anyway. His no had sounded like a yes to her, but a no was still a no. Either way, she felt manipulated. If she’d accepted, he probably would’ve recanted and given her another speech about how she shouldn’t fall for him.

Be a good little girl. It made her entire body clench.

Valentine’s Day arrived as another unassuming Wednesday. Flowers and balloons begot squealing girls at school. Other than a few more eye-rolls than usual, it was just another day for Daphne. She’d successfully buried Oliver Pagano somewhere in the back of her brain.

Had she known of any further Valentine’s drama, she would’ve bypassed the western wing hallway, going outside and around the campus before reentering through the door nearest to her physics classroom to avoid Penny Layton’s locker. But she hadn’t taken the long route because as far as she was concerned, it was just another day. Penny Layton was just another squealing girl. Daphne had almost made it out of hearing range when the name “Oliver Pagano” banged against her eardrums. The sound brought a stop to her feet. As she gaped down in disgust at her motionless combat boots, another tiny piece of her heart hardened.

She wanted to unhear his name. She couldn’t rewind, and she couldn’t move forward, the soles of her shoes stuck in the wet cement of St. Valentine. It took all her strength to scoot to the side of the hallway to avoid becoming high school road kill. While she tried to will her legs to work, she was tortured by the fading in and out of Penny’s gushing to a group of dancers: He’s so sweet…red roses…no, we can’t…chicken pox.

Sympathetic moaning and groaning from the peppiest of the pep squad wafted over to Daphne. For the first time in her scholastic career, she contemplated cutting class. She decided against it as the normal sensations of her lower limbs returned. Right now, she needed physics, needed the blend of math and theory to reaffirm her existence, that it all meant something. In the alternate universe of mathematics, everything made sense.

By the end of the day, Daphne made her Valentine’s peace. Despite her best intentions, she liked Oliver. Despite her best intentions, he didn’t like her. It was that simple. She was never going to be Penny Layton. Nor did she want to be. But the Oliver Paganos of the world never fell for the Daphne Bowmans, and she was not going to watch some stupid romantic comedy with Janine that night that tried to prove fantasy over science. They’d watch a horror movie instead. Preferably one where all the pretty people died.

In the end, Janine ditched her anyway, citing that she had to study for a test the next day.

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