The Perfect Match by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

The next evening my mother found me hiding out in my bedroom as Kate played soccer outside with Bobby. How she had the energy after wiping the floor with me on the field yesterday and after another practice today, I had no idea.

I was more than happy to lay in my room and read instead.

My mom eyed me like she didn’t recognize me. "Levi, why are you hiding in your room?"

"I'm not.” I totally was.

She arched her brows, her gaze knowing and wise. "I literally watched you sneak in through the back door and creep up the stairs." She did not outright ask a question but she didn't have to. She was my mother.

I turned my attention back to the book in my hands. I was lying sprawled out on my bed as if I was ready to go to sleep even though bedtime was hours away. Hiding out around one's own home was super boring. Lesson learned.

My mother let out a long weary sigh. She sank onto the side of my bed and the sadness in her eyes made me squirm. "Sweetie, are you really so miserable here?"

Yet again I didn't answer. I didn't have to. She was my mother. "I thought you were starting to make friends."

"What's the point?" I snapped. She flinched and I instantly hated myself. I hadn’t meant for it to come out so harshly but this whole selfless thing was wearing on me. Staying away from the girl I liked and being her teammate when I wanted to kiss her senseless…it was taking a toll. But I shouldn’t have taken it out on my mom. I knew she felt guilty enough about having to drag me away from my friends in my school, she didn't need to hear any more from me.

It wasn't her fault my father—my natural father—hadn't wanted to put me up my final year.

Oh, she might have talked a good game about how important it was to her they have me as part of their new family and how she wanted me and Bobby to have a chance to connect before I went off to school, but I'd seen past all that to the truth that lie beneath. My father hadn't wanted to take care of me.

Whatever. I didn't care. I was over it already.

My mom started to fidget with the covers, picking up invisible lint that only she could see. She glanced up at me with sad but hopeful eyes. "Kate seems nice," she said.

Kate. Her name felt like a sucker punch.

I shrugged. "She's fine."

My mother looked at me steadily but didn't respond.

I probably should've opened up to her. There was no one else for me to talk to. I should've told my mom, it would've made her so happy to hear about girl problems.

But that was the thing, I didn't have girl problems. I didn't have a girl.

I'd seen to that.

My mother's next sigh was less sad and more weary. "Look, Levi, I know you're not happy about being here.

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