The First Love Anthology: A collection of novellas by Amy Sparling

Author:Amy Sparling [Sparling, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Jacie’s warnings stick with me all throughout the night. It hadn’t really occurred to me until now, that choosing a guy to date just to win a guitar is kind of a horrible thing to do. If he really likes me and I’m just using him, then that’s not okay at all. But still, I can’t help but check my phone, waiting on Jaxon to text me. We had fun at Taco Bell and I want to hang out with him again.

I decide that there has to be a way to date him for thirty days, get my guitar, and not hurt his feelings. And then the solution comes to me while I’m waiting for my Pop-Tart to finish toasting.

My parents are in the kitchen, arguing over who drank the last cup of coffee and who has to brew another pot. My mom calls my dad annoying, and I get the perfect idea.

When my thirty days with Jaxon are nearing an end, I’ll just start being annoying. I’ll get clingy, or I’ll listen to music he hates, or I’ll find some way to make him so annoyed that he decides to break up with me. Then I get my guitar, and he doesn’t get his feelings hurt. No harm, no foul.

Perfect!

I’m expecting some kind of text in the morning, but Jaxon doesn’t send me anything. Teachers don’t exactly love when we play on our phones in class, but most of them don’t care, so he has no reason not to text me. Yet, three classes go by and my phone hasn’t had a single message from him. At lunch, I scan the crowd, looking for him since I know we have the same lunch period. I can’t totally ditch Jacie for a second time in a row, so my plan is to ask him to sit with us…only I can’t find him.

Eventually, five minutes after lunch has started, I get my food and plop down next to Jacie at our table.

“What’s wrong with you?” she says.

“I gave Jaxon my number yesterday and he still hasn’t texted me.”

“Good.”

I look over at her. “Why is that good? I can’t get started on my thirty days if he never actually texts me.”

She focuses on stirring the granola into her yogurt. “I think you should pick another guy. Jaxon is just too nice.”

“But I’ve got it all figured out,” I say. I tell her about my plan to get progressively annoying as time goes on so that Jaxon breaks up with me.

She laughs, and not in a sarcastic way. “You seriously think that will work?”

I shrug. “Yeah? I won’t be crazy about it, I’ll just get slightly annoying and then a little more annoying. I’ll use the first twenty-five days to figure out what he likes and doesn’t like and then I’ll use that to my advantage.”

“You are putting in so much effort for this,” Jacie says, shaking her head.

“Yeah well do you know how many hours I’d have to work at a

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