Subscribing to the Enemy: An Enemies to Lovers YA Sweet Romance by Jen Brady

Author:Jen Brady [Brady, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perch Lake Cabin Press LLC
Published: 2020-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

17

JOANNA

I HEARD THE DOORBELL and knew it would be Rick, but I was deep into editing our latest YouTube video, so I let someone else answer it. I needed to upload the video today before the weekend ended and I got busy with school. With the contest a long-shot now, Ted and I had to be extra vigilant about building up our subscribers organically. I couldn’t afford inconsistency. Fan bases loved knowing exactly when they’d get their next video.

A minute later, I heard footsteps on the stairs and Rick appeared in the attic, proudly holding up two brown paper bags. When he twisted them, I spotted the Panera logo on one.

“I brought lunch.”

My stomach growled at the thought, and I tried to remember whether or not I’d skipped breakfast. “Thanks, I love Panera.”

He had a smug grin on his face, as if he’d been aware of that piece of Joanna Trivia, even though there was no way he could have known. It had to have been a lucky guess. He held one of the bags out to me. I took it and peeked in. My mouth started watering and my taste buds leaped at the prospect of the bread bowl that was nestled under napkins and a plastic container of soup.

“It’s tomato,” Rick said.

“Christopher Columbus, Rick!”

“Hernán Cortés, Joanna,” he shot back. Apparently, this was going to be a thing we did now.

“Ha ha.” But that had been a good one. “You guessed my favorite.”

“Also . . .” He reached into the other bag, smiled, and pulled something out triumphantly.

I laughed at the apple he held up. “How did you know my usual side?”

“I took a chance.”

He set it down on my desk and shrugged off his flannel. As usual, it was warm in the attic, even though the snow swirled around out the window.

“This is a great workspace.” He turned in a circle, examining the entire attic. “I see why you like it so much.”

I sat at the desk in front of my laptop. He sat in the empty chair next to me. He’d finally agreed (after many, many texts pleading him to spare me from having to work in his clutter) to upload his work-in-progress to my Wrap Up Pro account. It just made sense.

As we went through the footage, I snuck peeks at Rick. Somehow, he made inhaling a bacon turkey sandwich and two grilled cheeses look cute. Maybe it was the week-old scruff on his chin and cheeks. Or maybe it was the small blob of cheese that stuck to his cheek. I had this urge to reach over and wipe it off with my finger, but that felt way too intimate, so I let him keep eating and talking about the movie until he finally wiped his face with a napkin and the cheese drip disappeared.

I was a goner over this guy. I’d never felt this way about anybody before. I’d had crushes on famous actors, of course, but I’d never felt all giddy around someone I actually knew and spent time with.

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