Icing on the Lake by Catherine Clark

Author:Catherine Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Sean called while you were gone,” Gretchen announced when I got home from lunch, and hanging out shopping with Emma and Jones. It was about five o’clock and they’d already left to go back home. “I told him you’d be home tonight, so he’s coming over around six.”

“He is?” I asked. The house seemed strangely empty without Brett around; he’d gone to his father’s for the weekend.

“Yes. Why do you sound so surprised?” Gretchen asked.

“Because…I don’t know,” I said. I wondered if it would be possible for me to hide in my room when he came over. Probably not. What if I ran to the bathroom and pretended to be violently ill?

I just couldn’t stand the thought of talking to him, after seeing him with that girl, in the warming—very warming—hut.

I’d completely made a move on him Friday night when we went sledding. Now it was Saturday night and I had no idea where we stood.

Did he want to be with me?

Or was he coming over to tell me he already had a girlfriend?

Maybe I wouldn’t have to fake being sick. I was getting nauseous just thinking about seeing him.

When I finally focused on Gretchen again, she was staring at me. “Are you okay? You look pale.”

“I’m fine,” I said. “Tired, that’s all.”

“Come on. Let me freshen your look before he gets here.” She took my arm and started to pull me toward the bathroom, where she kept a tower of beauty products. She was using one crutch to balance herself as she walked.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“You look tired. I don’t know what’s going on with you guys, but you seem stressed about it. The last thing you want to do is actually let him know you’re upset.”

“I’m not upset,” I said.

“What are you, then?” she asked.

I didn’t want to tell her, but I had to tell someone. She knew Sean; maybe she could tell me something that made me feel better. Or maybe she knew something and wasn’t telling. Either way, I had to let her know what was bothering me.

“Confused,” I said.

She grabbed a compact of foundation powder and then some blush and gave me a mini-makeover while we talked. “Don’t make me look too made up,” I said.

“I won’t,” she said. “Don’t worry. Now spill.”

“I don’t know,” I said. “It’s not that big a deal, I guess.” I told her about the girl I’d seen with Sean, how she was all over him and how he could easily have been all over her, except that I closed the door and stopped looking.

“Oh, I wouldn’t worry,” Gretchen said as she leaned over to select a lipstick color for me. “That doesn’t sound like much.”

“It doesn’t?” I said. “What if he’s already seeing someone?”

“Well…are you seeing him? Technically?”

“Technically? I don’t know about that,” I said. “No. I guess not. I mean, we haven’t known each other that long. But I felt like…” I didn’t want to tell her about the kiss. “Like we were sort of moving that way.

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