Holly's Heart Collection Three by Beverly Lewis

Author:Beverly Lewis [Lewis, Beverly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-13T20:00:00+00:00

After government class I rushed to Andie’s locker. I wanted to deliver my own version of mystery—the letter I’d written Friday night. I smashed the envelope into the air vent of her locker and skittered away.

Down the hall, I stood behind an open door, holding the school paper open in front of me, hiding. I felt the muscles in my shoulders tense as I waited. How would Andie react to my letter?

And, then . . . there she was. Andie headed straight to her locker and opened it with a jerk. My letter was waiting at the bottom of her messy locker. She leaned over and picked it up, her face scrunched into a bewildered look.

Watching her like a hawk, I peered around the paper as she stood reading my letter.

I held my breath.

What would happen? Would she crumple it up . . . toss it away?

Then, surprise, surprise. Andie did a strange thing. She called out to me. Called my name loudly. “I know you’re watching from somewhere, Holly. Get yourself over here!”

“What on earth?” I muttered to myself. And go, I did.

“You silly,” she said, hugging me. “What sort of letter is this?”

“A nutty one.”

“You can say that again.” She was giggling. When she calmed down, Andie said she was sorry, too. “I shouldn’t have called your stepbrazen a brat.”

“Brousin,” I said.

“Huh?”

“Forget it; I get the idea.” I laughed.

“So how’s the tutoring going?”

I used her skinny locker mirror to primp. “I’m actually learning some math, finally.”

Then a peculiar look crossed her face. “And, uh . . . how’re things with Sean?”

“We correspond pretty often. Why?”

“Just wondered.” I turned to look at her. Now she had a squirrelly sort of grin. “Guess I’ve been a jerk about that, too.”

“That’s okay.”

“What a waste of emotional energy,” she admitted. “Even if we do go separate ways in the future, we’ll always keep in touch, right? No matter what.”

“Always.”

She closed her door and hoisted her books over to her left arm. “Uh-oh.” She stared down the hall. “Guess who . . .”

I turned to see Zye Greene and Ryan Davis.

“It’s the Double-X Files,” she muttered.

“Aliens at school?” We laughed.

“Something like that,” she whispered. “Hey, did you hear? Ryan might be coming to our church youth group.”

“You’re kidding. Really?”

“Danny Myers invited him. Danny is trying to evangelize the entire Dressel Hills population, I think.”

“That’s good, isn’t it?” Suddenly I felt sick inside. I’d treated Ryan poorly. Just because I didn’t agree with his racial prejudice was no reason to reject him as a person. A person who was most likely struggling like the rest of us—probably searching for truth. Bold Danny had the right idea, whether Andie approved of it or not.

Now Ryan and Zye were coming our way.

“I wonder what they want,” I said.

“Well, I’m outta here,” Andie said, turning to leave. “I’m not hanging around to find out.”

I stood there for a minute. It was time I stopped being so rude to these guys. Sure they were upperclassmen, and yep, they’d humiliated Andie and me during freshman initiation, but they were human beings.

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