Lovesick by Tonya Hurley

Author:Tonya Hurley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: JUV000000
ISBN: 9780316089241
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2010-07-11T21:00:00+00:00

Damen wanted to see Scarlet, but it was very late, so he decided to play the romantic, and sneak in and surprise her. He approached the house, with Charlotte, still seething from the little Scarlet-and-Eric jam session she’d spied on earlier, unknowingly in tow. Through the window, he could see her listening to music on her bed and flipping through a book, as usual. The tunes from her stereo speakers were blaring so loudly, she didn’t notice anything else, not even Damen and Charlotte peering in at her through the window.

Damen stood there for a minute admiring her, and Charlotte could see that it was the look of real, genuine love. She had longed to be gazed at like that, to be adored, and she thought she might be on her way to that undiscovered country with Eric. It was more than a little ironic to her that Scarlet, of all people, might be the roadblock in the way of that journey.

Damen tapped on the window, but Scarlet couldn’t hear him with the music blasting. He didn’t want to knock any louder and alert her mother or Petula, so he waited, a bit foolishly, for the song to be through. He started tapping at the fade-out and finally managed to get her attention. It was a weird, almost sad scene, Charlotte thought. She was feeling too uncomfortable to stay but too curious to leave.

“Who’s there?” Scarlet asked, slamming her book shut as she jumped off the bed.

Damen just smiled, completely oblivious to the fact that he was the second guy of the day to surprise Scarlet, and waited for his warm welcome.

“You scared the crap out of me,” she said. “Why didn’t you text me to tell me you were coming?”

“I wanted to surprise you,” he said.

“With a heart attack?”

Hadn’t he learned that his surprises weren’t really working out? Scarlet thought.

“I just wanted to see you,” Damen said.

“Get in here before my mother finds you and rips out a never-seen-before internal organ.”

Damen climbed through the window and looked at her.

“Is it Halloween, already?” he joked.

“What?”

“Your tee,” he said, referring to the band tee she was wearing.

“That’s funny, you used to like it,” she snipped.

Charlotte knew where all this was going, at least she thought so, and more importantly she knew why.

Scarlet was wearing one of her old band tees, the Plasmatics, but she cut the top and sleeves off, reinventing it as a halter, with one asymmetrical strap holding it up across her chest to her back. Her old self was fighting its way back. And winning.

“What’s gotten into you?” Damen asked, taken aback by her criticism.

“You have,” she said.

“You’re taking this the wrong way,” Damen explained, a bit haplessly. “I only said that because you haven’t worn those tees in a while, so I thought you were getting them back out again for a reason.”

“Yeah, there’s a reason, actually,” she said, biting her lip from unloading on him completely.

It was almost as if Scarlet was forcing a reaction from him so she could speak her mind.

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