The Boyfriend App by Katie Sise

Author:Katie Sise
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

chapter sixteen

I clapped my hand over her mouth.

“What just happened?” she said into my palm.

I looked at the yellow house and thought of the buzzing. “Bumblebees,” I lied. “Wait here. And don’t scream again.”

Lindsay didn’t protest. She stood next to the Buick with her arms crossed over her chest, shivering. The white-haired woman across the street had finished her cigarette and was beating a Navajo-style rug on the porch railing with a rhythmic thud, thud, thud. I was breathless as I crossed the lawn and knelt beside the phone.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It wasn’t an ordinary sound. It was like a combination of a high-pitched squeal and a vibrating buzz. I moved closer, but then jumped back just as a burst of complete and utter euphoria flooded my body. It felt like the endorphins that kick in after running for fifteen minutes and pushing past the pain, mixed with the sugar high and caffeine jolt from Mountain Dew, blended with the zing I felt looking at Xander’s lacrosse pics, combined with the warmth that swirled through me when Aidan’s hand held mine, and the rush I felt when his lips touched my cheek.

My mind was working a million miles a minute. Something was wrong with me—at least, temporarily. A strange noise was coming from my phone and it was making me heady and delirious. It was tricking me into feeling something I otherwise wouldn’t—the way I felt when I looked at Lindsay standing on Madame Bernese’s porch.

I stared at my buyPhone. It stuck up straight in the air, the bottom half nestled in the dirt next to the dead shrub.

I had to be mistaken. I’d seen too many science-fiction movies, and now my imagination was getting the better of me.

I crept forward until I heard it again.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Blood swirled in my knees until they knocked together. A rush of tenderness and well-being covered me like a quilt, and I didn’t think I’d be able to pull myself from its grip. It felt so good. I fell to my knees in front of the phone like I’d seen old ladies do at church in front of holy statues.

I was sure now. It was unmistakable.

I was falling in love.

There was no one in sight to become the object of my affection—only Lindsay and the white-haired woman across the street, but my back was turned and I couldn’t see them. Without an object, the falling-in-love feeling was general, nonspecific: a warming that crept from my toes to my fingertips. Pulling myself from the feeling was like stretching saltwater taffy—I resisted until I snapped, stumbling backward until I couldn’t hear the noise anymore. I tried to catch my breath, but now that the feeling was gone, I wanted nothing more than to have it again. I stood there, trembling, both scared of the feeling and craving it.

I crawled over the cold earth as the buzzing got louder and the feeling grew stronger, making my thoughts cloud and swirl together. Images of Aidan filled my brain. His broad shoulders. Full bottom lip.

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