The Crush Collision by Danielle Ellison

Author:Danielle Ellison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Crush; Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance; Teen & Young Adult Romance; Teen & Young Adult Sports Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Football Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Friendship Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Books; Best Friend’s Sister; Best Friend’s Brother; Opposites Attract; Friends to Lovers; Sports; Football; Sports Romance; Football Romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Haley

I glare at Shane with my arms crossed; I only bid on him because he asked me to.

Well, he didn’t ask me to do anything, so much as told me if I didn’t then he’d tell Chris about me and Jake. Not that there is a me and Jake. Not really. But even hinting at it was enough to make me play along. I want to know what he knows.

Shane gives me a pretty darn smug smile. “Hello, date.”

I give him the biggest scowl I can. “I’m not really interested in dating you.”

“Oh, because you’re going after Lexington now, I know, but come on. I’m way better than him.” He has this way about him, always has. He’s cocky, first of all. Most football players are, but Shane is the kind of full of himself that doesn’t advertise it unless you get to know him.

I shake my head. “Wow, that’s your teammate.”

“On the field. In life right now, he’s competition.” Shane leans into me. His breath smells like everything bagels. “Come to Hoops’s party with me at least. Then you’re free.”

That sounds like the worst night ever. “I really don’t want to go to Hoops’s party.”

He takes my hand, and I pull it away. I don’t want him to hold my hand ever again. “Come on, Hals. I’m not that bad.”

“You didn’t used to be,” I say. And once upon a time, he was a good boyfriend and person. I’m not sure when that shifted for us.

“We used to have fun,” he says to me, flashing his signature smile. All smooth and confident. It always used to do something to me. He used to. “Don’t tell me you forgot.”

Before he cheated, Shane and I were pretty inseparable. We’d become a single-named person: GriggsandHaley. He was always at the house, and we spent a lot of time being together and goofing around. But it didn’t matter. Nothing we had was real, not if he could throw it away. “I haven’t forgotten, but was that before or after you broke my heart?”

“I was young and stupid. Trust me, I didn’t mean to.”

I snort. “You blackmailed me into bidding on you, Shane.”

“Because I knew it was the only way. Look, come with me to the party. Have a drink. Dance a dance. Let’s go from there.”

I sigh. I need to be careful with Jake, for so many reasons. No matter how much I like him, there are other people at stake. I should at least find out what Shane knows, or thinks he knows. “Fine, but I’m not staying very long.”

“Great,” he says, opening the door to his car.

“Don’t do that,” I say, pointing toward the door. “I still don’t like you that much.”

“I know,” he says. “But at least pretend like you don’t hate me.”

I don’t really know what to say to him about it. He gives me these big puppy eyes, like he used to before, and even though I know who he is, who he really is, it tugs at me.

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