Center Stage! (Center Stage! #1) by Caitlyn Duffy

Author:Caitlyn Duffy [Duffy, Caitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996035651
Amazon: B01427HP5E
Publisher: Lovestruck Literary
Published: 2015-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

“Your friend Nicole is nice,” Elliott said.

As soon as we’d said our goodbyes and stepped into the Yoons’ cobble-stone driveway (which encircled a gurgling fountain), shyness overtook me. On the drive back to my house, which was most likely out of the way for him if he was driving back to Malibu that night, my brain was firing off thoughts in two opposite directions.

1. Elliott might really like me and might really want to kiss me and what will I do if he tries?

And—

2. Even though I should feel awesome about that, why do I feel so lousy about hurting Lee’s feelings instead?

“Yeah, sure,” I said unenthusiastically. I added, “I think she likes you,” and then cursed at myself in my head for even testing those waters.

Surprisingly, Elliott laughed his kind of quiet half-laugh. “Yeah, whatever. Don’t get me wrong, she’s cool and all. But there are lots of girls like her at my school, and none of them ever said a nice word to me before I was on TV. Now I get e-mails all the time asking when we’re going to hang out, if I’m coming back to Temecula after the season finale. It’s all, like, so fake.”

I didn’t want to let on how surprised I was by his admission. I could see a guy like Elliott existing on the fringe of high school society even at Pacific Valley… until girls heard that voice. “Well, all those people talking to me at the party? Half of them have never spoken to me before tonight. Ever. Some of them, I’ve known since first grade.”

Stern silence followed my comment as we drove through wild Saturday night traffic on Sunset Boulevard. Finally, Elliott said, “I guess we’re both going to have to get used to that. For a while, at least. While it lasts.”

“Yeah,” I agreed. It hadn’t occurred to me before Lee’s party that suddenly people would be so much nicer to me than before. All of us on the show had been somewhat sheltered from the outside world since taping had begun. My parents certainly weren’t being any nicer, and they were the only people outside of the world of Center Stage! with whom I interacted lately. “And then when people stop being nice, we’ll probably develop all kinds of personality disorders and consider ourselves failures.”

“If they stop being nice,” Elliott corrected me with a wicked grin.

The lights in the living room window of my house were lowered by the time we reached my block, which was a sign that my parents were at least pretending not to wait up for me like museum guards expecting burglars to trip alarms. When we pulled into my driveway, Elliott took me by complete surprise by jumping out of the car while the engine was still running. He dashed around the back to open my door for me. Of course, I didn’t know what he was up to, so by the time he made his way to my side of the car, I had already opened the door and was climbing out.

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