The Time Traveler's Boyfriend by Annabelle Costa

Author:Annabelle Costa [Costa, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Romantic Comedy, Time Travel, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780985826352
Google: zQcJnwEACAAJ
Amazon: B00I8T02BW
Publisher: Dev Love Press
Published: 2014-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Claudia spends most of the next day crying. I play the part of the good cousin, holding her hand and bringing her a pint of her favorite ice cream (Rocky Road). I feel sorry for Claudia, but more importantly, I’m frustrated that I couldn’t stop the whole thing from happening. I was right there. It seemed like I should have been able to stop it, yet it was destined to happen just as surely as that taxi slamming into Adam.

“He was the love of my life,” Claudia sniffles as she sinks into the couch and takes a bite of Rocky Road. “I’ll never love again.”

Oh, please. “Come on, Claudia,” I say. “He wasn’t that great.”

“Yes, he was.”

“Obviously he wasn’t,” I say. “He cheated on you.”

That didn’t help. A fresh wave of tears falls from Claudia’s eyes and her nose bubbles over with snot. I’m not attractive when I’m crying. But at twenty-two, you recover quickly from a bout tears—an hour after the waterworks stop, Claudia will look great again. Whereas when I cry, my eyes stay puffy for practically a week.

“You need to forget about that asshole,” I say to her.

She wipes her eyes with the back of her hand. “How?”

“A new guy, obviously,” I say. “You don’t want to spend New Year’s pining over Jed, having no one to kiss. Find some new guy and you’ll forget all about him.”

“I don’t know,” Claudia mumbles, snuffling loudly.

I take a deep breath. Here’s the moment. “I know someone perfect, actually.”

Claudia’s puffy eyes widen. “Really? Who?”

“His name is Adam,” I say. “He’s got a great job—he’s a computer programmer. And he’s really, really cute. He’s, um, the son of some friends of my parents.”

At the mention of how cute Adam is, Claudia perks up a little. “Do you have a photo?”

Was I really that shallow? “He might be on Facebook.”

Claudia frowns. “Whose facebook?”

Oh, right. It’s 1999 and there’s no Facebook yet. Hmm, maybe I should tip Adam off and get him to invent Facebook. Of course, he’s already rich. He doesn’t need to invent Facebook.

“Never mind,” I say. “He’s cute. Trust me.”

Claudia takes another thoughtful bite of Rocky Road. “All right,” she says. “I’ll go out with him. But it’s got to be December 30. I don’t want to waste New Year’s on him if it turns out he sucks.”

I give myself a little pat on the back. I got Claudia to agree to a date with Adam! Okay, she doesn’t know about the whole wheelchair deal, but that’s a necessity. If she knows, she won’t go on the date, but I’m sure once she sees him, she’ll fall instantly in love and she won’t care. I mean, that’s what happened when I met Adam in 2012.

While Claudia is taking a nap (I guess I took naps when I was twenty-two), I find the napkin with Adam’s phone number and give him a call. I’m relieved when he picks up right away. “Hi, Adam,” I say. “It’s Beth. The Psychic Girl.”

“Hey, Beth,” he says.

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