The Secret Life of a Dream Girl (Creative HeArts) by Tracy Deebs

Author:Tracy Deebs [Deebs, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen, YA, Tracy Deebs, Crush, Entangled, Creative HeArts, continuity, YA Romance, Teen Romance, boy next door, friends to lovers, best friend, bad girl, good boy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“They’re good,” Dahlia leaned over and whispered to him after the first two poets finished. “I mean, they’re really good.”

“They are.” Keegan nodded. “And these are just open mic. Wait until the semifinals and finals in the spring. It’s crazy. They bring brand-new stuff and just blow everybody away. It’s awesome.”

“Yeah? Maybe we can come back and see them then. I mean, if you don’t mind me tagging along?”

“Sure.” It took every ounce of self-control he had not to do a fist pump à la John Bender from The Breakfast Club. So Dahlia figured they’d still be hanging out in the spring—that counted as a good thing in his opinion. In three days, he’d gone from the guy she barely knew existed to a friend she made long-term plans with. That was definite progress, right?

“I’d love to bring you,” he said, just as the third poet was introduced.

“Hey,” Dahlia exclaimed suddenly, then quickly lowered her voice as the applause died out and the guy started toward the stage. She put her hand on his knee as she leaned forward to whisper in his ear. “Doesn’t he go to NextGen?”

It took a minute for her question to actually make sense to him, considering the warmth of her breath against his ear was sending shivers up and down his spine. And making every synapse in his brain riot. For a second, he wanted nothing more than to get his hands on her. To pull her onto his lap and tangle his hands in her short hair. To tilt her head back and kiss her like he’d been wanting to since Saturday night. But they were in the middle of the Spider House Ballroom and the last thing he wanted was for their first kiss to be plagued by wolf whistles and catcalls.

So he pulled back just a little and ran her words through his head until they finally registered. When they did, he grinned. “Yeah. That’s Nick Todd. He’s a senior, too.”

“That’s what I thought. I think he’s in my economics class. If he’s who I think he is, he’s a nice guy.”

“Nick’s great. We’ve been friends since ninth grade, and he’s freaking hilarious.”

“He is! He was ripping on Wall Street in econ the other day and he was crazy funny. Like, I was so impressed. Total stand-up comedy material.”

“Oh, yeah, absolutely. His poetry’s the same. He takes on super-serious subjects, but his observations about them are so funny—and true. Which is a little scary, but…” Then something occurred to him that made the last of the residual shivers from her whisper disappear between one second and the next. “He’s got a girlfriend.”

The words slipped out before he even knew he was thinking them, let alone that he was going to say them, and the second they were out he wished he could take them back.

Especially when she looked at him strangely. “I’m not interested in dating him. It was just cool to see someone from NextGen out in the world with us.

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