the Hollow (2009) by Verday Jessica

Author:Verday, Jessica [Jessica, Verday,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-26T18:08:20+00:00

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My head spun. Did he know how much his smile made my heart melt? Or the way his voice sent tingles up and down my arms, and butterflies fluttering wildly inside my stomach? Someday I'll be able to tell him how he makes me feel. But not today.

I smiled back. "Hi, Caspian."

Did my smile make him melt? Did my voice make him feel funny, or send chills racing through his body? I vowed to ask him those things someday. But not today.

"I hope you're not still mad at me." I peeked shyly at him. "Mad at you?" he asked. "Why would I be mad at you?" "Because I didn't meet you here last week. I thought you were

pissed about that."

He shook his head. "I wasn't mad at you. How were you supposed to know that I'd be here?"

"I don't know. I guess I just thought ..." I shrugged. "I don't know."

"I wasn't mad, Abbey," he reassured me. "Believe me?" He had that serious little-boy look on his face again.

Yeah, like I could resist that.

"Okay," I sighed dramatically. "I believe you." I grinned to let him know I was teasing and was rewarded with a smile in return. Remembering the cookies, I held the bag out and gestured to them. "I made you some cookies so you wouldn't be mad at me. But since you weren't ever mad, I guess I'll just have to keep them."

He tugged the bag playfully out of my hand. "On second thought, if they're snickerdoodle cookies, then I think I do need them to help me get over my anger." He gave me a mock scowl.

I laughed at his act. "Of course they're snickerdoodle. I wouldn't make you any other kind. Do you want to go sit under the bridge to eat them? It should be warmer there." I shivered and rubbed my hands together. It was really cold out here.

He immediately looked contrite. "You're cold? Why didn't you wear a heavier jacket?"

"Like you're one to talk? You don't even have one on."

He looked down and seemed surprised. Then he laughed. "I never wear one. I guess I'm warm-blooded. But you're right about the bridge; we'll go there."

We turned away from the gravestone and started to walk down the hill. We didn't talk, but it wasn't an awkward silence. It was comfortable. Tiny pebbles crunched under our feet as we followed the path to the riverbank. It was colder by the water, until we stepped underneath the cover of the bridge. I felt warmer already just being with him.

Another moment of silence passed by. I stared at a jagged crack in the concrete wall that made up part of the support pillar for the bridge.

"So I went to see Kristen's mom last week, and I found something hidden under Kristen's bed. She was keeping two

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diaries." Focusing on that crack, I tried to give my mind something else to dwell on.

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