You're My Boo: A Friends-to-Lovers Halloween Romance by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Lucy

I run out of the party with a fresh rush of emotion washing over me. Feeling like a fool because there Natalia stood, looking ridiculously sexy in that nurse costume like it was sewn for her body. In high heels, with bright red lips, sex appeal dripping from her every curve. And I stood next to her with a sheet over my head, hiding.

Hiding.

Just how long have I been hiding?

The costume was for Noah. I knew he would understand what I was wearing and why. I’d tell him I read the checklist and that I finally understood.

But instead, I just feel like a fool because I've spent the last fifteen years wishing he would see me and he never has.

Maybe he has a checklist that was written about me, or maybe I was reading into it, trying to see what I wanted to believe was true. That he was picking me over every other girl.

But now I doubt that, because I doubt myself. I might love Noah, but so does every other girl in this town and I’m tired of trying to get him to love me most.

I run through Jake's backyard and through a gate. I run through the yard of Noah's mom’s house. The place Noah's been staying while he's been back in town for the last month. The lights are off and his mom is probably off at a party of her own. So no one sees me or hears me as I climb the ladder of the tree house. Our tree house.

When I get to the top I crawl inside, burying my face in the sheet I'm still carrying, the one with circles cut out for eyes. My shoulders shake as I cry for what could have been. If I had just been braver and bolder, sooner. If I just stood up and said what I really wanted all those years ago.

I've been so scared of losing my best friend, my Noah, that I've kept quiet all this time. And the heartbreaking part is realizing that if he wanted me, he didn't want me enough to make a move. And now I'm alone on Halloween — my favorite night of the year — crying my little heart out in the tree house where we slept as kids.

When the tears have stopped falling, I wipe them away and lean my back against the wall of the tree house. Looking out the window, I take in the stars and the big night sky, wishing for this night to have gone differently. I'm so lost in my thoughts that I don't even hear him until his face is poking through the door of the tree house, his brown eyes lifted, meeting mine.

"I've been looking for you for thirty minutes," he says as he takes the last few steps on the ladder and enters the tree house. He has to duck down and I wish again that we could rewind time. Go back to when we both fit together, in this space, but also, everywhere.

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