The Trouble with Faking by Rachel Morgan

Author:Rachel Morgan [Morgan, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: university romance, South Africa, Trouble series, sweet NA, coming of age, Cape Town, clean romance, light-hearted, upper YA
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Andi? Andi!” Livi snaps her fingers in front of my face.

I blink. “I’m sorry, what? Were you saying something?”

“No, you were saying something.”

“Oh. I’m sorry, I’m just really tired. I got to bed waaaaay too late last night.” And I was woken way too early when a cushion flew across the room and hit my face. Well, it was after 8 am, but it felt way too early. Noah had already put the blanket away and piled the cushions onto the armchair. He said goodbye and left—with The Italian Hoax under his arm—and I lay in bed for a while in a half-asleep zombie state.

Then I woke up fifteen minutes before I was supposed to meet Livi, and my car wouldn’t start, and Damien wouldn’t answer his phone, and I ended up asking Noah for a lift—because I forgot that he doesn’t have a car. He has a motorbike. And that wasn’t awkward AT ALL.

Not.

I sat with my arms around his waist and my chest pressed against his back, trying not to cling too tightly to his muscled form every time we swerved around a bend. “Got a good grip there, hey?” he joked as we stopped at a traffic light. I could do nothing but laugh breathlessly and tell myself to imagine Damien instead. Damien, Damien, Damien. After all, he’s the one I want to wrap my arms around, right?

“Andi?” Livi waves her hand in front of me. “I think you’re doing it again.”

I yawn and mumble, “I’m sorry.” I look around Caffeen, the coffee shop I finished videoing just now, and wave to the nearest waitress. I need coffee. Immediately.

The waitress hurries over, and I ask her to get me the biggest, strongest mug of coffee she can find. She smiles and tells me she’ll do her best to fulfil the mission.

“I, on the other hand,” Livi says, “don’t like coffee. What do you recommend?”

“I really like the milkshakes,” the waitress says.

“Great. Um …” Livi examines the menu. “That one please,” she says, pointing. With a nod, the waitress leaves. Livi turns back to me. “So, what were you saying?”

“Um, I was saying …” What was I saying before my mind drifted back to that motorbike ride? “Oh, I was saying that I have to tell Noah how I really feel about him.”

Livi frowns. “Who’s Noah?”

“Noah? Sorry, I mean Damien.” I shake my head as embarrassment heats my face. “You see? I shouldn’t open my mouth until I’ve got caffeine in my system.”

“Oh, yay, you’re going to tell him!” Livi claps her hands together. “That’s so exciting.”

“Yes. I just keep thinking, what if I don’t, and something happens, and then it’s too late?”

“You mean liiiiike … maybe he elopes with a random girl he meets because he thinks you’ll never love him, and only after he’s married, he finds out that you do?”

“Well, probably not like that, but that sort of idea.”

“You know what else falls into that sort of idea?”

“What?”

She hesitates, then says, “Not talking to your mom, and then maybe one day it’s too late.

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