When You Wish by Kristin Harmel

Author:Kristin Harmel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780375846519
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

I have four hours to kill before I’m due back at D’Angelo’s. I’m strangely nervous. I mean, obviously it’s not like my after-closing meeting with Nick is a date or anything. But he’s gorgeous. He’s sweet. And he doesn’t seem to hate me, even though I dumped soda all over him. In just a few hours, I’ll be alone with him in the restaurant. Is it wrong that that makes my heart beat just a little bit faster? Is it wrong that I can’t wipe the smile off my face?

I slowly walk into my motel room, barely glancing at the roach family that scatters as I flip the light on. I grab the can of Raid and absentmindedly spray the chemical killer in their general direction. I’m pretty sure I haven’t gotten them, considering that I can still hear them moving around, but for once, I don’t care.

“What do I do?” I absently ask the roaches. “Maybe he kind of likes me. I mean, I think I like him. It’s just weird. I mean, what am I supposed to talk about with him? It’s not like I can tell him who I am. And there’s really nothing else interesting about me, is there?”

I miss my old life more than I thought I would. For all the things I hated about it, I never took enough time to look at the things I actually liked. Such as not having to carry trays full of drinks to tables of ten while not knowing how to flirt with cute guys reading textbooks. Sleeping in five-star hotel rooms every night instead of dingy, roach-infested motels. Not having to worry about money—or flat tires or canisters of Raid or how to balance a tray of drinks.

In my old life, guys wanted to talk to me. I didn’t have to be charming or witty or anything. I just had to be, because I was Star Beck. That was enough.

But in this world, the world where I’m suddenly the klutzy, clueless Amanda Pepper, no one falls in love with me just because I’m standing there.

Suddenly, I’m plain. Boring. Average. And although I know it’s what I wanted, I’m not so sure I like it.

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