Starcrossed by Angelini Josephine

Author:Angelini, Josephine [Angelini, Josephine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-06-01T18:20:27+00:00

sick. Stumbling in her borrowed shoes, she went over to her dad.

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She stood right next to him as he talked to Pandora, and stared at

his profile until he took the hint and looked at her.

“What’s the matter with you?” he asked sarcastically at first, until

he took a good look at her and became concerned. “You okay,

Len?”

“Can we go? I have so much stuff to do. Homework and chores.

And I’m so tired,” she said, making up random excuses until he responded.

She was causing a bit of a scene, which she hated, but she

simply couldn’t stand there and suck it up for one second longer.

Jerry glanced down at his watch. “Sure, yeah. I guess it’s getting

kind of late. Was that supposed to be my line?” he asked with a

guilty grimace.

“No, you’re good. It’s still early. I’m just . . . I’ve got stuff,” Helen

said before she launched immediately into the thank you, goodbye,

and see-you-tomorrow crap that she wished she could just

skip.

Ariadne shot Helen a worried look, but Helen didn’t care about

anything anymore, not anyone’s feelings or whether or not they all

thought she was rude or crazy or both. None of it mattered. She

just needed to get out of that house before she saw Lucas again or

she was going to lose her mind. It was rude and awkward, but

Helen managed to drag her dad out the front door before Lucas

and Pallas had even looked up from their conversation in the

corner.

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Chapter Eleven

Helen rode her bike to school the next morning, giving

her dad instructions to tell Lucas that she had a few

things to do before homeroom. Jerry was a little put

out that Helen refused to call Lucas to explain it herself,

but she honestly couldn’t make herself listen to his

voice.

“Did something happen at dinner last night?” Jerry asked. She

ran out the door and pedaled off before he could get a straight answer

out of her.

The cool autumn wind felt good on her face, which was puffy

from staying awake half the night with her eyes leaking. She hadn’t

really cried, and never got that explosive release that comes from a

good old fashioned weep-a-thon. Lying there, she’d been too

shocked to sob. She felt like an idiot. She knew there had to be

worse things in the world than being dissed by the boy of your

dreams, but at that moment, she couldn’t think of any of them.

Kate, Claire, even her dad had asked her repeatedly what was going

on between her and Lucas, like it was expected that the two of

them would get together eventually, but no one had ever asked Lucas

what he thought about being paired off with Helen. Now Helen

knew for a fact that he “would never touch her.” Those words kept

coming back to her, not just the words, but how passionately he

had said them. The way he had spoken about her made it seem as if

the very thought of kissing her was disgusting to him, and Helen

was just as confused by this as she was hurt. How could he want to

hold her hand all the time

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