Along for the Ride by Dessen Sarah (2010-01-01) Paperback by Dessen Sarah

Author:Dessen, Sarah [Dessen, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B012YWSW74
Goodreads: 160562878
Published: 2009-06-16T07:00:00+00:00

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“You knew he probably wouldn’t show,” he was saying to Adam, who was busy turning dogs over the flame. “He’s been antisocial ever since it happened.”

“It’s been over a year now, though,” Adam said. “He’s got to start hanging out again sometime.”

“Maybe he is hanging out,” Maggie said. “Just not with you.”

“Meaning what? ” Wallace asked. I stepped back behind the open door, waiting for Maggie to respond, but she didn’t. “Belissa? I can assure you, that is not happening.”

“No kidding. They’ve been broken up for months, idiot,” Jake said.

“Yeah, but she’s still been hung up on him,” Wallace replied. “But then tonight, she came by the shop to tell him she’s got a new boyfriend. Some guy from the U, down for the summer working at the Cadillac tending bar. Said she wanted to tell him in person, so he didn’t find out from someone else.”

There was a short silence. Then Leah said, “And how do you know this, exactly? ”

“I might have been just inside the door, checking the air on the display bikes.”

Someone snorted. Adam said, “You are the worst gossip, Wallace. Worse than a girl.”

“Hey!” Esther said.

“Sorry. Just an expression,” Adam told her. “Seriously, though, Maggie might be right. Maybe he does have something going on, somewhere else. When I invited him tonight, he said he’d try to make it, but he already had plans with someone to run some errands.”

“Errands? ” Leah said. “Who runs errands at night? ”

“It didn’t make sense to me either,” Adam told her. “But that’s what he said.”

I looked around the kitchen, then walked over to a nearby drawer, pulling it open, then the one beneath it. In the third, I found what I was looking for: the Colby phone book. It was such a small town, only one Laundromat was listed.

“The Washroom, Clyde speaking.”

I glanced outside again, then stepped closer to the fridge. “Hey, Clyde. It’s Auden. Is Eli there? ”

“You bet. Hang on.”

There was a bit of interference, and a short exchange, as the receiver was handed over. Then Eli said,

“You are missing out on some serious apple crumble right now.”

“I got dragged to a hot-dog party,” I said.

A pause. “Really.”

“Yeah.” I turned around, shutting the phone book. “Apparently, they are a very important rite of passage.

So I figured I should check it out, for my quest and all.”

“Right,” he said.

For a moment, neither of us said anything, and I realized that it was the first time in a long while that I’d felt nervous or uncomfortable around Eli. All those crazy nights, doing so many crazy things. And yet this, a simple phone conversation, was hard.

“So let me guess,” he said. “Right about now, Adam’s probably still cooking hot dogs, even though no one wants any more.”

I glanced outside. Sure enough, Adam was at the grill, opening up another pack. “Um,” I said. “Yeah, actually.”

“Leah and Esther are probably starting to argue about leaving.”

Another look proved that yes, they did look like they were having a somewhat spirited conversation.

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