The Boyfriend Contract by Melanie Marks

Author:Melanie Marks [Marks, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 54

Okay, I’m very confused. Very.

After all of Conrad’s recent flirting and his speeches that kind of elude to maybe there being more than just friendship between us—last night was the topping on the cake.

But come on, how can I know that what I felt last night wasn’t all in my imagination? And that he really, truly felt the way it seemed?

I’m really not up on how to read Conrad when it comes to this kind of stuff—especially because I haven’t been around him in almost a whole year, and his behavior towards me has changed so drastically much.

In the past I’d always been his “best friend.” So, he didn’t treat me like a “girl.” I mean, not the way he normally treated girls; I was thoroughly “friend zoned.”

But now he’s flirting with me?? Am I really, truly actually out of the friend-zone? Really?

Or is it that he’s just going through something? Something tragic and traumatic—and dramatic—due to losing his girlfriend in such a horrific way?

Was he just being out of character with me last night because he’s haunted and hurting and trying to reach out for something that he wouldn’t normally? Something he’ll regret when he’s more himself and healed?

I don’t want to ruin our friendship over romantic misjudgment again.

Ugh! I don’t know what to believe.

Since the beginning of high school, I’ve heard girls say that Conrad is a flirt and player. But he’d never been that way with me—ever. Because I’d always been his “friend.”

But …

Last night was my best friend actually “playing” me?

The thought is bizarre … but so is the thought of him suddenly flirting with me. I mean, at his birthday party he’d made it sound like the thought of me suddenly becoming more than a friend was freakish and squirmy to him, and so far out there he had to dash off to Connecticut without telling me, to get away from my squirrely mushy behavior.

The memory haunts me.

I spent all last night tossing and turning and fretting, trying to make a judgment. But I still don’t have a clue what to believe.

So, finally I turn to Ally, since there is no way I can turn to Paige—not about Conrad. Or any cute guy, actually. I love her, but she’s not exactly level-headed—or sane—when it comes to cute boys.

Ally however is very sane and level-headed, and she’s got the Grief-Master wrapped around her sweet church-girl finger, so she’s obviously got magical powers when it comes to guys.

“Hi January,” she says with a big smile when she closes her locker and finds me hovering beside her. “How did your dinner go with Conrad?” she asks, her big smile growing even bigger.

After I explain to her about our “date” going so well, and all of Conrad’s recent flirting and his speeches that kind of elude to maybe there being more than just friendship between us, I ask her in desperation, “How can I know that what he felt last night wasn’t all in my imagination? And that he really, truly feels the way it seems?”

“In his kiss,” Ally says, kind of shocking me.

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