Taking a Shot by Catherine Gayle

Author:Catherine Gayle [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2014-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

I COULDN’T SEEM to take my eyes off Katie the whole night, not even when some of the guys from her school sat down and wanted advice on becoming a pro in their sports or when the girls came over and begged me to sign their arms or…well, some specific other places I had no intention of signing. The girls flirted and tried to get me to dance, but I was only here for Katie. I didn’t want to be rude to them, but I really wasn’t interested in anything they had to offer.

I didn’t mind the requests for autographs so much. I’d gotten used to that by now. Everywhere I went someone wanted a piece of me. It was just the other pieces of me they wanted that got to me. It took some work on my part, but eventually, the overzealous girls backed off.

Every time one of the guys cut in for a dance with Katie, or one of the girls came to catch up with her, she seemed even more bewildered by the attention than she had when I’d kissed her. She’d been so sure that none of them cared about her anymore, when the truth was probably just that they didn’t know how to tell her and show her. So often, cancer seems like a death sentence. How was someone our age supposed to react when we found out one of our own was in a battle like that? It just takes some time to adjust, I supposed. God knew I’d needed it.

I still wasn’t sure what had come over me when we had gotten our pictures taken. I just knew that Katie had given a piece of herself in that moment, not only to me but to everyone who had been watching, and I hadn’t been able to stop myself from kissing her. No—I could have stopped if she’d wanted me to. I just didn’t want to stop, and she didn’t ask. I wanted to hold her close and make her feel loved.

She’d laid herself bare in front of all of us, and the photographer had captured the moment. Katie had been crying a lot lately, but these were a different kind of tears. It wasn’t just her fears and sadness keeping her locked up tight; it was so much more. Like everything under the moon that a person could feel had all crashed into her at once and it was too much for her to keep inside any longer. I’d never witnessed anything more beautiful, so I could only imagine what the images would look like.

The thought had never crossed my mind that I might start to fall in love with her when I’d asked her to go to her prom with me. I had just wanted to see her come back to life. Well, she had, and now I was pretty much royally fucked. Getting Webs to let me take her to prom was one thing; getting him to let me really go out with her was something else entirely.

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