Tempted by von Ziegesar Cecily

Author:von Ziegesar, Cecily [von Ziegesar, Cecily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Young Adult, Chick-Lit
ISBN: 9781439590980
Google: SLBHPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 1439590982
Goodreads: 2251262
Publisher: Poppy
Published: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

19

OWLS “OF THE OPPOSITE SEX MAY VISIT EACH OTHER’S DORM ROOMS DURING PROPER VISITATION HOURS, BUT THREE FEET MUST REMAIN ON THE FLOOR AT ALL TIMES.

The smell of Drew’s soap permeated the room, providing a nice masculine complement to the girly smells of Jenny and Callie’s hair products and fragrance bottles. Drew ran his fingers through Jenny’s hair, her body tingling as his fingertips brushed her scalp. They both sat on the bed, leaning against the worn wooden headboard.

She thought about how easy it had been to just shut the door in Tinsley’s face. Why hadn’t she done that from the beginning? Why had she ever let Tinsley get underneath her skin? A few weeks ago Jenny had been angrily packing her bags, ready to be expelled. Now here she was, kicking back with her savior, a senior who was obviously totally in love with her. Meanwhile, Tinsley sat atop the ash heap of the Formerly Popular.

“You’re so pretty.” Drew touched Jenny’s cheek, repeating the words for at least the dozenth time since she’d met him.

Jenny blushed for the dozenth time, too, her rosy cheeks always giving her away. “So you’ve said.” She liked the cool way the words came out of her mouth, like a smoke ring blown across the room.

“How come you don’t have a boyfriend?” Drew asked. He rubbed his hand across his slightly stubbled chin. The stubble made his strong cheekbones even more defined.

“Who says I don’t?” Jenny shifted a little on the bed, trying to straighten her slumping back against the headboard. Her father—in an awkward attempt at having “the talk”— had told her that if she was ever going to be on a bed with a boy, she should never, ever get anywhere close to lying down. Jenny scooted off the bed to relight the incense stick on her dresser. When she climbed back, she made sure to sit cross-legged.

If Drew minded, he didn’t show it. “I asked around about you.” He leaned back, arms crossed over his chest. His hunter green wool sweater brought out the brilliant green of his eyes. “I did my homework. I’m a good student.”

“Oh, yeah?” It gave her a little thrill that someone would ask around about her. She imagined him in the Lasell locker room, pulling on his gym clothes and saying casually, “So, what do you know about this Jenny Humphrey girl?” Not that she wanted to be the subject of guys’ locker room talk, or at least, not the dirty kind—the isn’t-she-cute kind, if that even existed. “Well, don’t believe everything you hear,” she said coyly. She inched a little closer to him, wondering exactly what he had heard, and from whom.

Drew smiled again and put his arm around her. She waited for the inevitable, the gravity of his arm pulling her into his orbit for another kiss. But instead, Drew’s hand just rested loosely on her shoulders, as if they were sixth-graders walking home after school. It was nice.

“Why not?” Drew asked, scratching the back of his head with his free hand.

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