A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison

Author:Whitney D. Grandison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Published: 2019-12-16T13:21:08+00:00

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By the time we made it to the boardwalk, the others were chasing each other around and the boys had declared their victory. The night was still young and, according to Travis, the mayhem had just begun.

Chad took Nandy’s hand and led her toward their friends while I stood back with Travis and Matt.

“He was being a bitch the entire time,” Travis whined. “You should’ve just taken Shayne.”

“It wouldn’t have been as much fun if I just took Shayne, you know?” I elbowed Travis as I joked around. Things weren’t quite squared away between Nandy and me, but it was nice to know the reason behind her cold shoulder.

She was jealous.

Jealous.

I was beginning to wonder just how jealous when I caught sight of Shayne waving to me as she headed my way.

“Hey,” she said as she stopped in front of me. She looked around us and back to me before tucking a few strands of her hair behind her ears. “Can we talk?”

“Yeah, sure.” We started walking away from Travis and Matt. “What’s up?”

“Well, I know it’s crazy last minute and all, but I’ve been wanting to ask you to be my date for cotillion,” Shayne came out and said.

Just a few hours ago, I would’ve said yes, but thinking deeper, I could see the hole I was digging for myself as far as Shayne went. Soon—or maybe it was too late—she would grow feelings, and I feared her reaction when she realized I didn’t have any beyond friendship. It wasn’t like I couldn’t like her. She was amazing, but there were other factors stopping me from going there.

“I’m not sure that’s a good idea,” I came out and said. “Maybe we can meet each other there and have a dance, though.”

Shayne stopped walking and studied me. “What?”

“I want us to be friends, and I think going to this event together like that could come off the wrong way.”

Her mouth dropped open and she looked shocked.

Shayne was beautiful, and smart. She had this thing about watching “gray movies”—because calling them black-and-white proved to be too difficult for her. She would watch the same movies over and over, even though she knew the outcome of boy gets girl or sister goes insane. Beyond that, she would volunteer at homeless shelters when she got a chance, or donate some of her allowance to charity. Shayne was a good girl, which didn’t surprise me when I’d called her out for her purity and she hadn’t denied the fact. She was special.

She was definitely the type of girl you took home to your mother, and then your mother would look at you and then her, and question why she’d gotten with you, because you clearly weren’t on her level. Only, I didn’t have a mother to accompany the scenario. I couldn’t exactly give Shayne the ordinary. I knew she considered herself motherless as well, due to her extreme abhorrence of her stepmonster and her mother’s being facilitated in a rehab clinic, but still, it was different.

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