The Not-So-Boring Letters of Private Nobody by Matthew Landis

Author:Matthew Landis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Friends

She likes to hang out with me

She ran really fast to see if I was hurt

More Than Friends

She likes to hang out with me.

She ran really fast to see if I was hurt

She wears pretty clothes when she comes to watch me drill.

She brushed grass off my face.

It was a start.

Oliver took his paper out of the rings and flipped everything back slowly to shut the binder because everybody knows there are few things more annoying than making a giant logjam in there that requires you to take every paper out.

That’s when he saw it: a note.

In Ella’s handwriting.

He started to read it but stopped. He looked over at Kevin. Still buried in his script edits.

This was what people called an invasion of privacy. Completely inappropriate. Maybe illegal. He could go to jail, which was terrifying, because from everything he’d seen on TV, he was the kind of person who wouldn’t do well in jail.

But she’d never know. And was it really that bad? She had left the binder. He was basically doing her a favor by rescuing it. He deserved to read the note.

So he read it.

I see you when I close my eyes because you’ve been by my side the last few days. I have never said what I am about to say to anyone, and I am embarrassed to say it to you. I suppose I should just say it before I lose my nerve or run out of time. I love you.

“Bro,” Kevin said.

Oliver couldn’t get enough air into his lungs. “Huh?”

“You okay? You look like you’re gonna puke.”

“I what?”

Kevin stared at him. “Sure you didn’t bayonet yourself in the head?”

“Uh—no. I’m fine. Just . . . my shoulder. It hurts.”

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep-beeeeeeeeeeep.

“Your mom really loves that horn,” Kevin said. “Are you gonna tell her what happened?”

Oliver’s brain was mush.

I love you.

Those words had fried the circuitry upstairs.

“Tell her what?” Oliver asked.

“You know, when you tripped over that cone and did like ten somersaults down the hill?”

“Oh . . . right. Uh, no. Let’s keep that between us.”

“Okay.” Kevin looked Oliver over. “I think you should see a doctor.”

Beeeeeep-beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep-beeeeeeep.

In the car, Oliver waited until Kevin was buried back in the script before he added “wrote me a love note” to Ella’s “More Than Friends” column.

It was official, then.

They liked each other.

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