How to Speak Boy by Tiana Smith

Author:Tiana Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I just had to make it through tonight’s date with my dignity intact. That was all.

I’d been all for canceling this farce, but I was a woman of my word. Besides, I wasn’t about to back out and have Grayson know he’d scared me away or somehow gotten the upper hand.

So, here I was. Doing the thing I wanted to do least because I had too much stinking pride. But I could do hard things. That was what I’d proven last night at the spaghetti dinner performing in front of Grayson’s mom. I’d rocked that performance. She’d even been smiling while she clapped.

My mom had been so proud I had to stop her from telling every person we met on the way out that I was her daughter. Then she’d gone out of her way to introduce herself to Grayson’s parents, and I’d about died right then and there. As if by some unspoken signal, Grayson and I had both steered our parents away from each other as soon as we could while still abiding by polite social norms.

This should be easy-peasy in comparison, but instead I was sitting in the diner booth and stress sweating while I tore a breadstick into little tiny pieces. Carter was beside me to my right, like we usually sat whenever we came to my mom’s diner. Naomi usually sat across from us, her long legs requiring a whole side to herself. An old One Direction song came on over the speakers, making her absence all the more noticeable, because she would have been fangirling over it. I really could have used her as backup right about now, because this was all kinds of awkward. Carter seemed to recognize this, because he kept cracking jokes to make me feel more comfortable.

Across from us, the other side of the table was still empty. Grayson and his date weren’t here yet, and part of me wondered if he’d be a no-show. If someone had roped me into something like this, I wouldn’t have come. I’d say “See ya,” and let them deal with the consequences themselves, thank you very much.

But Grayson was a better person than I was, because at that moment, he walked through the doors of the diner with his date. She was walking slightly behind him, so it wasn’t until they made it to our table that I recognized Grayson’s ex-girlfriend Zara Hayer. He smirked as he sat down.

Maybe he wasn’t the better person after all. Maybe tonight was about to get a whole lot worse.

Grayson and Zara settled into their seats and I tried to smile politely. I didn’t know Zara well. She was one of those gorgeous people who didn’t really mix with anyone I knew. She had jet-black hair that bounced whenever she moved and perfect full lips that made it look like she was always flirting. She seemed nice enough, but why on earth had Grayson invited her tonight? What did it mean? And why did I care? Okay, if I was being honest with myself, I knew why I cared.

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