Finding Felicity by Stacey Kade

Author:Stacey Kade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Chapter Ten

The next morning, I ease out of bed as quietly as possible, slide into my robe, and then grab my shower bucket and flip-flops. But every noise I make—the shampoo bottle tipping over with a thunk and the thwack of my shoes against the linoleum—seems impossibly loud.

Lexi is a silent lump under her covers, facing away from me. The sound of her key in the door woke me up around two, and she came in on a wave of stale smoke. But she didn’t say anything, and she didn’t turn on the lights. I had trouble falling asleep again after that.

I don’t want to wake her up and make everything worse.

I avoided our room all day yesterday. There was plenty to keep me busy and away. By the time Liam and I returned to campus, everyone was pouring out of Knutsen. Liam waved before disappearing into the crowd. I followed a clump of people to the Admissions Office for an official campus tour so I wouldn’t get lost on the first day of classes. Then, after grabbing a sandwich at the union to eat on the way, I went to the open houses offered by the English Department and the Communications Department. And I dawdled at the library for a few hours, using one of the computers to make my course schedule with multiple backup options for registration today.

When I finally dared to go back to our room to grab my laptop, no one was there.

Still, I stayed away, just in case. I found an empty lounge on the main floor of Brekken so I could eat my take-out from the caf and watch Felicity without having to use my headphones. I went back to the room around midnight reluctantly, when I was falling asleep on the couch and the RAs were making rounds. One of them, definitely not in the mold of Noel Crane, Felicity’s understanding and cute RA, snapped at me and told me I couldn’t spend the night on the couch.

Now I open the door as little as possible, trying not to let the light in from the hallway, but when I glance back at Lexi, I’m convinced suddenly that she’s only pretending to be asleep to avoid me. Something about the perfect evenness of her breathing and the tension in her body that’s obvious even through her covers.

I slip out and close the door gently behind me. The hall is empty and quiet except for the distant rain sound of the showers and a toilet flushing in the communal bathroom.

Taking a breath, I replay my conversation with Liam in my head. This is going to be great. Liam-and-Caroline is going to be a thing. Who cares if Lexi doesn’t like me? I don’t need her.

I make my way to the bathroom, which is overly hot and smells like fake flowers, thanks to all the body wash and the obnoxiously pink soap in the dispensers.

There’s a line for the showers. Well, one person, if that counts as a line.

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