The Girl I Was Before by Ginger Scott

Author:Ginger Scott [Scott, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, family, teen, college, sports, baseball, series, new adult, falling series
Publisher: Ginger Scott
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Houston

Her room is dark. I’ve been waiting for a light to come on, for a sign of something to shine through the small inch of space underneath her door. I’ve been up all morning. I’ve been up all night.

She never got sick, but I have a feeling Paige is going to have a wicked hangover today. I’m also pretty sure she’s not going to remember a word she said. And that’s probably a good thing.

I won’t mention it either. Doesn’t mean I didn’t like hearing it, that I don’t like knowing it—how she feels. I like it a lot. But last night was like being in a time out—like summer camp, where stupid things you do don’t count. I went to camp when I was twelve and kissed a girl three years older than me. It was camp. Free pass for her to do something she never would anywhere else in a million years. I benefited. That’s what Paige got last night. She got lit, and her mouth said some things I know she would never let slip out otherwise. She likes me, and she doesn’t want to. That last part…it’s the reason I’ll keep my mouth shut, pretend it didn’t happen. That and whenever I think about the idea of being something more I also think of the never-ending list of reasons why it’s a bad idea, why it would end badly.

I think of Leah.

But I like knowing it all the same.

Mom took Leah to work with her already, and she grilled me a little at breakfast.

“That girl seems to have a lot of drama,” she said this morning. All I could do was shrug because yeah, she does. I didn’t want to add on to my mom’s conclusion—or defend Paige. Whatever move I made would have brought my mom down a new path of questioning, one I wasn’t ready for. So I kept my mouth shut. But the entire time, I kept thinking about how Paige said she likes me and wishes she didn’t. It stings and feels awesome at the same time.

Life is such a tease.

I have about ten minutes before I need to leave for class when Paige’s door opens, her body backlit by the small lamp in her room. Her hair is matted to the side of her face, and her makeup is in all of the wrong places.

“Ugh. Why are you here?” she asks, holding a hand up to block my line of sight, like I’m a cameraman.

“I live here,” I chuckle, getting to my feet from the spot I’ve been sitting in the hallway outside my door. “How you feeling?”

I know how she’s feeling—like shit. It’s confirmed when she bunches her lips and sends me a sour expression like she wants to be sick.

“Don’t let me mix beer and shots ever again,” she says, rubbing her fingers into her temples. Again. As in, I’ll be there the next time she does that. It catches my attention, and I dwell on it while she’s saying something else.

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