Winter's Kiss: The Ex Games & The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jennifer Echols & Catherine Hapka
Author:Jennifer Echols & Catherine Hapka
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Dating & Sex, Humour, Contemporary, Fiction, Social Themes, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781442450745
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-03T00:00:00+00:00
When Iâd envisioned the comp with Nick, Iâd pictured exactly this strong sunshine and bright blue sky. Beyond that, my predictions were all wrong. Iâd thought my friends and Nickâs friends would be waiting for us at the bottom of Main Street. I hadnât imagined a crowd of several hundred people, as many as had watched the local competition last Tuesday. They rang bells for Nick and me because they couldnât clap in their mittens, cheering for us as we boarded over to the ski lift.
I also hadnât realized Iâd have to ride up on the lift with Nick, just the two of us. But it was the last Saturday of winter break. The slopes were crowded. Nobody got to ride a lift alone. And he was right behind me in line. Nick and me riding up together right then was like George W. Bush and Barack Obama riding to Obamaâs inauguration in the same limo. Relaxed!
We didnât say a word to each other the whole time we shuffled through the long line in the shed. Finally it was our turn. We slid into position in the path of the chair. It swept us off our feet and up into the air, and Nick pulled the guard bar down across our laps.
After the voices echoing in the shed, the cold air around us was silent, except for the ski-lift cable clanking overhead and the swish of skiers dodging moguls below us.
I looked up at Nick beside me. He had his goggles down already. I couldnât see his eyes behind those damn reflective lenses.
I took in a sharp breath of freezing air. âIâm not saying this because Iâm scared, or because I want to get out of anything. But I want you to know that Iâm sorry for what happened between us last night. Weâve said a lot of ugly things to each other in the past week, and we didnât mean most of them.â I raised my voice as we neared a pole supporting the lift, and the cable clanked louder and louder through the pulleys. âAt least, I didnât. If we can just get past all this, I think weâre both bigger than that.â
Now I found I was shouting, even though the noise of the cable had died away. Even more deafening was Nickâs silence. He didnât look down at me, didnât say a word as we passed four more poles and boarded off the lift. I could see a muscle working under his skin in his strong superhero jaw, but his mouth stayed closed.
We slid to the top of a narrow slope that curved into the forest. âHey,â Nick called to a kid boarding by. âWeâre racing. Say go, would you?â
The kid turned to us, and his eyes widened. âOh my God, youâre Nick Krieger and Hayden OâMalley, arenât you? Is this the comp everybodyâs been talking about? Are you guys hooking up?â
âJust say go!â Nick and I both yelled.
âGo!â the kid shouted.
I pointed myself downhill and boarded as fast as I could.
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