Where Beauty Lies (Sophia and Ava London) by Fowler Elle & Fowler Blair

Author:Fowler, Elle & Fowler, Blair [Fowler, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

LonDOs:

Dalton

The DA dropping the charges

Boys who take gigs just to see you

Puppies who smile

Puppies who are going to the groomer

Chests for leaning heads against

Lemon-peppermint conditioner

LonDON’Ts:

Put off kissing someone until later

Make pacts with the Contessa

Countdown clocks that tick loudly enough to be heard in your bedroom

Counts

Muddy paw prints on the black carpeting

13

bright lights, big party

The limo drove from the apartment down Broadway, through the middle of Times Square on the way to the Fashion Week opening party. Sophia, curled on the seat, stared out the window and found herself smiling at the lights and the sheer energy of it. The sounds of Lily’s, Ava’s, MM’s, Sven’s, and Sam’s voices were a soothing backdrop to her thoughts.

How long had it been since she’d just sat and thought? she wondered. She looked down at her hands and was surprised, again, to see them empty. No phone. Nothing to check. There would be no messages. No texts. Hunter had—

Hold yourself together, she cautioned. This is not something you want to share.

She saw the Hershey’s store, an ad for the national parks, a billboard showing people standing across the street waving, a butterfly turning into underwear, and the Naked Cowboy with his guitar, every surface pulsing and blinking and clamoring for her attention. Attention she was only too happy to give.

It wasn’t just Hunter who wouldn’t be texting. She still hadn’t heard from Giovanni. Which was only what she’d expected. And completely fine since she’d decided she would have to tell him she was seeing someone else and couldn’t continue their friendship. She’d composed the text a dozen times in her head, hating the sound of it, but given where things were with Hunter, it had seemed like the correct thing to do.

Seemed, she repeated to herself. Correct thing to do. With ideas like those, no wonder Ava had hated being her so much.

And no wonder Giovanni hadn’t texted her.

She glanced down the limo toward her at exactly the moment that Ava looked in her direction. That happened when they were in sync, and for the past few days, since Ava’s afternoon in Central Park, they’d been completely in step, finishing each other’s sentences, filling in blanks. It was an amazing feeling, having a real partner, someone you knew you could trust without reservation.

It made what had happened with Hunter that much more jarring.

Don’t think about it now, she told herself, shifting her attention back to Ava. She didn’t want to spoil her sister’s good mood.

Because when Ava had come in from walking Popcorn she’d appeared—happy, Sophia thought. Simply, blissfully, completely happy. In a way she hadn’t seen for months.

And Sophia had known, even before Ava said a word, that it had to do with Dalton. No one else came close to making her look that way, not even the guy who’d perked up her mood at the zoo. She seemed happier that afternoon, but Dalton made her positively glow.

“So he came to New York just to see you,” MM had summarized after Ava finished telling them about her meeting with Dalton.

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