Watch for Me by Moonlight by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

STEAL AWAY HOME

By the time Drew and Mallory arrived at the end of the second quarter, Ridgeline was up by eight points. The gym was buzzing, thick with the atmosphere of wet wool, popcorn and excitement. Everyone in town seemed to be there. Even practical people, like Grandpa Brynn, had their faces in their hands, wondering when the big fall was going to come. It was pretty pitiful, Drew said. Ridgeline fans were so conditioned to failure that when Mike Corrigan scored a three-pointer, they hardly dared to cheer.

Mally and Drew found their seats. Just as they settled in, making pillows for their backs out of their coats, Mallory saw her parents arrive with Uncle Kevin and another man she didn’t recognize. They all found seats higher up in the stands near Mallory’s grandparents.

Out on the floor, Meredith was on her knees on the sidelines, pounding the floor with her pom poms. “We’re the best! Forget the rest! We’re the best! Go, go! Go west!” the girls shouted. Kitticoe High School was west of Ridgeline.

When halftime came and Ridgeline was up by eleven, people were acting as though it were New Year’s Eve.

The cheerleaders ran out onto the floor. The cheer was called “Heat.”

We have the heart and we have the heat

And we have the beat for ...

Victory!

We have the goal and we have the soul

And we’re on a roll for ...

Victory!

It was when Merry was perfectly balanced in her Lib on top of the pyramid that she looked into the audience and zeroed in on Ben.

She didn’t lose her composure—which could have led to a broken vertebra—but she made a soft kissing motion that no one except Mallory saw. He grinned. And when Meredith and Neely hit the floor, while Sasha whirled past them in a flurry of green and white, Merry whispered, “Tenth row up, twelve from the left. That’s him! That’s him!”

“The guy?” Neely asked, as they rushed off the floor to the crowd’s applause.

“What guy?” Kim asked. “Oh, that guy! Where?”

“Right there in front of your face!” Merry said. “The guy wearing the white T-shirt and the beat-up leather jacket.” Covertly, she waved to Ben, who lifted his palm.

Behind her back, Kim and Neely exchanged looks.

There was no one in the seat tenth row up, twelfth from the left.

The only people in that row were old people, no cute boys.

When Mallory saw her sister’s intense gaze, she, too, glanced over at the spot. For an instant, she believed she saw something, a shimmer in the air. But then nothing. Her head dropped forward and she leaned against Drew.

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