Who I Was with Her by Nita Tyndall

Author:Nita Tyndall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2020-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Eight Months Before.

All I can think about is her. Thank God the season’s over, or else I know this would be affecting my running.

She texts me in January, asks me to meet her at the park by her high school once she gets out of theater auditions.

Are you auditioning?

Can’t sing. Stage-managing, so I get to watch.

Good luck.

Everything is new with her. Every text makes me grin like an idiot. I’ve become one of those girls who doodle initials of their crush in the margins of their chemistry books.

Julia texts me as I’m pulling up to the park, asking if we can maybe hang out this weekend, because we haven’t properly hung out since the season ended.

But Maggie asked if I would go to the movies with her this weekend, and how could I say no?

Later, Jules, I say, then put my phone in my pocket.

I’m abandoning my best friend for a girl. I never did this to her with Trent.

But she knew I was dating Trent, and I can’t predict how she would feel about me and Maggie when I barely know myself.

I’ve never been to this park before, but I find it easily. It’s not difficult to find things in Leesboro, once you know where they are. Though I guess our town in Colorado was the same way. Small towns with secrets are the backbone of this country.

I am a girl with a secret.

(I am a secret.)

Maggie’s car isn’t there when I get to the park, so I pull into the gravel by the swing set and get out. It’s finally cold enough I feel at home, cutting wind at my back.

I sit on one of the swings and wait for her, my phone in the pocket of my sweatshirt. The metal chain of the swing chills my fingers, but it’s a comforting sort of cold. I always did like this weather better.

Gravel crunches as Maggie’s car pulls up, and my heart starts beating faster, though I don’t know if it’s from nerves or seeing her. There’s no one around at this park—it’s too cold—and anyone driving by would just see two girls on a swing set, talking.

She has her hands in her pockets as she starts walking toward me, head bowed.

I want to kiss her, but I’m afraid to.

She takes a seat next to me on the swing, twirls around in it.

“Hi,” she says.

“Hi,” I say. “How were auditions?”

“Good. We know who we’re going to cast,” she says. She looks up at me, bites her lip. This is the first time we’ve seen each other since Christmas. Since we kissed.

What if she says it was a mistake? That it was all a mistake, and she doesn’t really like me, and she’s not even into girls and and and?

I reach over and take her hand.

“What did you want to talk about?”

She’s quiet, the only sound the creaking of the swings as they hold our weight. “Us,” she says after a moment, and my heart beats faster because there is an us.

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