This Love by Bloom Anna

Author:Bloom, Anna [Bloom, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Anna Bloom
Published: 2015-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

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“Strike!” Freddy shouts and gives little fist pump. Pulling my ugliest face, I poke my tongue out.

Laughing, he comes and sits on the bench by my side and gives my knee a sympathetic pat. The continuous chuckling seriously undermines the sympathy. “Don’t worry, Amber, the next ball will go your way.” He laughs some more. “Well, hopefully the right way.”

“Ha, bloody, ha.” I stand up and place my hands on my hips, giving it some attitude.

Imagine my shock when I found out our second first date was to be at the bowling alley.

Grabbing a ball off the conveyor, I slide my fingers into the holes and try not to imagine the hundreds of people who’ve done it before me, nor where their fingers may have been.

“You should see your face,” Freddy mocks some more. “Do you want to ask the desk to clean the ball again?”

I roll my eyes and turn my back on him. Seriously, if he wasn’t Freddy Bale, wasn’t so hot, and I wasn’t hoping there would be some serious action later, I would have been out of the door ages ago.

Stepping up to the lane, I try to not focus on the squidgy feeling under my toes in the rented shoes and concentrate instead on the elusive ten pins. This time I’ve just got to keep it out of the gully. It shouldn’t be too hard.

I swing the ball and give that little jump, curtsey thing that Freddy makes look so easy. The ball glides down the middle of the lane, and I have a split moment of satisfaction watching it go the right way. Then my right foot steps over the black line and I slip, my feet flipping high in the air as I fall onto my arse with a painful whack.

The whole place is silent as I lie on my back, staring at the ceiling; the bright lights glare down, blinding me. If I could die right now, that would be just about perfect.

Freddy falls to his knees next to me, at first I think it’s an act of concern, but then I feel him shaking with laughter next to me. “Come on, Amber.” He pulls me up by my hands until I’m sitting with my legs sprawled at awkward angles. “The good news is you got four down that time.” I glance down the lane and see that I have in fact knocked down four pins. “Do you want to take the other shot?”

“No, I want to go home,” I grouch.

“Come on, I’ll help you.” He straightens up, wincing slightly as he puts weight on his right leg.

“Oh, don’t do the whole, I’m so injured thing with your leg. I just had a smack down in the middle of a packed bowling alley.”

“It’s true! My spinal cord damage is nothing compared to that, what was I thinking?” His grin flashes wickedly and I pull a very unattractive face in return.

He grabs my hand and holds the ball for me to take.

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