In My Dreams (First Tracks Book 2) by Kristen James

Author:Kristen James [James, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Kristina

Was that Avery?

I did a double take on my way to my first class, and I still didn’t believe it. But it was her, speed walking across campus with her head down. I wanted so badly to call out and stop her, but the last time we saw each other I slammed the door and walked out without a word.

I’d blamed her for my problems with Kyle, and I know full well she didn’t try to steal him. It’s been Kyle all along. He tried to kiss her on the coast trip, and he hasn’t treated her well outside of that. I just wonder why it took me so long to see the truth.

Did Jazz and Dawn know Avery was back? They had to, right? They lived in the same house as her.

I reached my class early and joined the others waiting to go into the class. Tears pooled in my eyes and I felt my mouth trembling, so I turned around to stare at the wall.

“Hey Kris,” Dawn said next to me before I noticed her there. “Uh, what’s wrong?”

I shook my head and wiped at my eyes.

“Hey, listen, Avery came home.”

“I know,” I said quietly. “I saw her just a few minutes ago.”

Dawn started to say something and cut herself off. She probably just figured out that seeing Avery is what had me upset. I gave in and asked her, “Did she say anything to you?”

“I haven’t actually seen her. Jazz told me she came back. I haven’t been at the house much.”

We went inside and sat down in our normal seats. I spent class mindlessly doodling in my notebook, once in a while catching a line of the lecture, and thinking about what to do.

A paper slid onto my desk. I glanced at Dawn before reading the words: We should talk to Jazz and Avery.

I wrote, I know, I’ll think about it, and slid the paper back. It’d been a while since I passed notes in class.

Dawn was right. I couldn’t keep hiding like this—I needed to go home. I’d been staying with different friends and avoiding reality. I didn’t want anything to do with Kyle anymore, but I wanted to know what happened between him and Avery. Did it start on the coast trip? Had he been in love with her all that time, ever since they broke up? Was he always an asshole and I somehow overlooked it?

Was I the asshole? Did I steal him away from Avery and then end our friendship when he tried to kiss her?

I might have told Avery as much, back when we had that party at the house. She asked me point blank, I think, and I told her I stole Kyle. Sometimes I wonder if I made that night up, or at least that part of the night, because we didn’t act any differently after that. We just went on like things were normal. Wow, I really have been a shitty friend.

I held my phone under the desk and texted Avery.

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