The Plaid Collection by Ally Carter

Author:Ally Carter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Josh.

Josh was standing in front of me. Josh was stepping closer. Josh was looking at me, smiling at me. “Hey, Cammie, I thought that was you.”

Now, I know I’m new to this whole ex-girlfriend thing, but I’m pretty sure exes aren’t supposed to talk to each other. In fact, I’m pretty sure exes are supposed to hide when they see each other, which totally sounded like a great idea to me, because, well, hiding’s what I do best.

But Josh had seen me. Josh always saw me.

“Cammie?” Josh said again. “Are you okay?”

I honestly didn’t have a clue how to answer, because, on the one hand, Josh was there—talking to me! On the other hand, I had broken up with him. And lied to him. And the last time I’d seen him he’d shown up during a CoveOps exercise, driven a forklift through a wall, and had his memory modified, so okay wasn’t necessarily the word the came to mind when describing how I felt right then.

Spies are good at multitasking—we observe and we process, we calculate and we lie, but I didn’t think it was possible to feel so happy, scared, and generally awkward all at the same time, so I muttered, “Hi, Josh,” and tried to keep my voice from cracking.

“What are you doing here?” Josh asked, then looked up and down the narrow street as if he were being followed (which, when you think about it, wasn’t all that far-fetched).

“Oh, it’s a…school thing.” At the word school, he recoiled slightly. I looked down at the uniform that—until that moment—Josh had never seen me wear. “So, how have you been?”

“Okay. How about you?”

“Okay,” I said, too, because, even though I could have told Josh a lot of things in a lot of different languages, the things I most wanted to say were the very things that neither the spy in me nor the girl in me could ever let him hear.

“So we’re both okay,” Josh said. He forced a smile. “Good for us.”

Oh my gosh, could this moment be any more awkward, I thought—just as…you guessed it…the moment got a lot more awkward.

“Josh.” The voice was soft and familiar. “Josh, your dad said he could…” The voice trailed off, and I saw one of Josh’s oldest friends step out of the pharmacy’s side door.

DeeDee’s short blond hair did a little flippy thing where it stuck out of the bottom of her pink hat. Which matched her pink scarf. And her pink mittens. Pink was definitely DeeDee’s signature color. “Oh my gosh, Cammie! It’s great to see you!” she exclaimed.

She paused and studied my uniform for a second, as if remembering that almost everything I’d told her last semester had been a lie. And then, despite everything, DeeDee hugged me.

“Hi, DeeDee,” I said, forcing a smile. “It’s really…good…to see you, too.” And it would have been if I hadn’t noticed something just then that had nothing to do with being a spy on a training op and everything to do with being an ex-girlfriend.

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