The Trouble with Flirting by Claire LaZebnik

Author:Claire LaZebnik [LaZebnik, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-02-25T22:00:00+00:00

When the bus returns to pick us up, Isabella grabs my arm and tells the guys that the girls want to sit together. News to me, but I let her guide me to a window seat. She plops down beside me. The seat across the aisle from us is already taken, so Alex and Harry move on and sit somewhere behind us.

Once the bus is moving, Isabella says, “You probably think I was being a jerk at dinner.”

I shake my head silently.

“I know I acted like a baby about the books.” She leans her head back and gazes absently ahead. “I don’t know why I was doing that. I like that Alex is the kind of guy who’d get those books because he knew a friend wanted them. I guess I just felt a little left out. I’m used to being the one who gets the presents.” She glances at me with a little laugh. “Selfish to the core, right? Just like Harry said. He knows me well.”

“Nah,” I say. “Who doesn’t like presents?”

“Anyway, I just wanted you to know that it had nothing to do with you, and that Alex and I are fine, even if we have these moments. We just . . .” She wiggles her fingers uncertainly. “I don’t know. It’s almost like it’s too intense sometimes.” She sits up, then leans toward me confidingly, lowering her voice. “Like we like each other too much. You know what I mean?” Her big dark eyes bore into me. She sounds like she’s asking me a question, but I think she’s telling me something.

I get it. He’s hers. But she doesn’t know that he said Harry doesn’t deserve me and that he cares about me. “I get it” is the only part I say out loud. The rest I just hold on to, to think about later, when I’m alone.

“When we were together, Harry totally reamed me out about making you feel bad,” she says, shifting back and smoothing the navy fabric of her dress over her knee. “He was all, ‘Get as pissy as you want with Alex but leave my Franny alone.’ Seriously. That boy is so all about you right now—I’m sure he’d rather be fighting dragons to prove his love, but he’s stuck with fighting me. The Gorgon.”

I smile politely.

“So?” she says. “You and Harry? Yes?”

“What am I saying yes to exactly?”

“You know. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you laugh as much as you did with him today.”

“I probably never have,” I admit. “I had a lot of fun.”

“You know what’s even better?” she says. “I’ve never seen Harry think about anyone other than himself, but all day today I could see he was trying to figure out what you wanted. You’re good for him.” Her cell phone buzzes, and she pulls it out of her purse. “Sweet,” she says, studying it with a smile. “It’s Alex. He wants to know if I’ll trade places with Harry. Says he misses me. What do you think?”

“Yeah, you should go.

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