Cool Like That by Nikki Carter

Author:Nikki Carter
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

11

I feel like all these boy shenanigans are getting the best of me. I never do this, but I’m calling my mom because I really need to hear something that doesn’t come from another teenager. Real talk: our advice is really not all that good.

“Hi, Mom.”

“Hey, Gia. How is New York?”

“Fun. I’ve seen Canal Street and Chinatown, and today we went to see the Statue of Liberty.”

My mother laughs. “And what about your classes?”

“My creative writing teacher is really cool. She made the sightseeing part of my assignment. I have to write journal entries on what I see.”

“Well, that sounds like a lot of fun, so why do you sound so sad?”

“Mom, is it okay to like more than one boy? I’m asking because my friend is in this kinda triangle. She’s known the first guy for a really long time, and there’s a new boy who’s really cool too. Does it make her not a good girl if she likes both boys?”

“Is your friend cool with you telling me her business?” my mother asks. There’s a hint of a smile in her tone, like she knows I’m talking about me. She’ll just have to guess because I’m definitely not coming out and telling.

“Oh, she asked me to ask you.”

“Well, I think it’s okay for a girl to have a crush on more than one boy, but when it’s time to be serious, it should be with only one.”

“But what if I’m—I mean, she’s—not ready to be serious yet?”

“Then you—I mean, she—should not feel pressured to be serious. She’s got her entire life ahead of her to be in a relationship, and I’m sure she has college and her studies to think about.”

“But how does she keep from hurting the first boy’s feelings?” I ask.

“The boy she’s known for a really long time? Sometimes people’s feelings get hurt whether we mean for that to happen or not. I think she should just let her old friend know the new one is not coming to replace him and that there’s room enough in her heart for her to like both of them.”

“Okay.”

My mother clears her throat. Oh, no, she’s about to go in with the mom advice. “Gia, you aren’t up there hooking up, are you?”

I almost laugh at my mother using slang. She usually doesn’t, but I know she can’t bring herself to say what she means without using slang. Not on the topic of hooking up.

“No, Mom! I’m not doing anything like that. I’m just hanging out with friends. Ricky and I are meeting a lot of cool, new people, but I miss Kevin, Hope, and even Candy.”

“They miss you and Ricky too. Sometimes Kevin just comes over here and watches television all day with Candy. It’s like he’s wishing you’d come home any day. I sure hate that his grandparents didn’t let him go to New York.”

“Well, if Kevin had come, Ricky wouldn’t be here, so either way, someone would’ve been missing someone.”

“You’re right. But I sure would feel a lot better if Kevin were up there in New York rather than Ricky.

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