The Biggest Scoop by Gillian St. Kevern

Author:Gillian St. Kevern [Kevern, Gillian St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: M/M Romance, Love is an Open Road, gay romance, high school, bullying, journalism, humorous, geeks/nerds, friends, sweet/no sex
Publisher: Goodreads M/M Romance Group
Published: 2015-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Every step in the direction of school Tuesday was an effort. “You can do this,” I told myself. “You’ve done it before. Just remember. Today cannot possibly be any worse than Monday.”

It was worse.

The paper was out, the stands half-empty. Knowing that the paper had been a success even without my contribution was a mixed relief. I glanced at the lead article and swallowed. WHY QUITTING NEVER WORKS. It was safe to say that Candice was still angry.

But as I made my way down the hall, it became apparent that I had bigger problems.

“Is that even real?”

“It looks like Milo’s handwriting. I sit next to him in Spanish, so—”

“But who would—” Stacey caught sight of me and nudged her friends. They melted away down the hall, leaving me with a clear view of what they’d been looking at.

It was an A3 poster, and written in the font the newspaper used for headlines was “EXTRA EXTRA: MILO REJECTED!” Pasted beneath that, enlarged so that the lines where it had been ripped up were clearly visible was my formal invite.

I tugged the page off the wall, crumpling it up. Behind me, I could hear snickers and furious whispers.

“Serves him right. Did you hear about the tickets—”

They were still talking about the tickets in AP English.

“I think it’s disgusting,” Alexis said. “Taking advantage of Taylor’s newness to the school and making friends with him, just to use him as stories! And pretending to work for the formal, just to sabotage it. I suppose that would have been a story too!”

“Milo quit the paper before the tickets were found,” Lily said. “He wouldn’t have done that if he was just in it for the story.”

“Because he already had what he wanted! In with the popular kids, Logan in trouble. He was probably trying to get Logan kicked off the team! You know Milo’s always had it in for the football team. Carson and Blake—”

“Maybe,” Taylor said, “before we get too carried away, we should hear what Milo has to say.”

There was a long pause.

“He’s not going to say anything. He’s been face down on his desk since he got to class—” Sarah Choi stopped suddenly.

I felt someone standing over me, a slight pressure on my arm and Taylor’s voice. “Milo?”

I was going to be sick again. “I didn’t take the tickets.”

“Then how did they end up out of my bag and in your locker?” Fern demanded. “They didn’t move themselves!”

“When the tickets were in your bag, were they loose?” Lily asked suddenly.

“What?”

“Did you have them loose or were they inside something?”

“I had them in a bag, of course. So nothing would happen to them.” Fern sounded puzzled.

“And was that bag in Milo’s locker, too?” Lily folded her arms. “Why would Milo go to the effort of removing all the tickets from the bag and putting them in his locker where they would fall out the first time he opened it, when they were right there in a bag that would have kept them

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