The Bad Boy and the Tomboy by Nicole Nwosu

Author:Nicole Nwosu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wattpad Books
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Let me give you some pointers,” Andrew told Sam in the busy cafeteria at lunch on Tuesday afternoon.

“On football?” Sam questioned.

“On Macy,” Andrew clarified. “She hates left side even though she’s good at it.”

“I’m not,” I said.

“You are,” Andrew argued. “If she doesn’t have a Pop-Tart for after a game, she’s not motivated. Tell her that one will be provided and I’ll be the one who’ll give it to her because I’m the only person who can calm her down after a win.”

As Andrew continued to talk to Sam, Austin, on the other side of me, typed rapidly on his phone. “What’s up?” I asked him as everyone at the table fell into their own private conversations.

“I’m talking to someone.”

“Talking to—oh.” If I’d been having this conversation a while back, before I even had a boyfriend, I would’ve cringed at the topic of dating, but now I was intrigued by the smile that came to Austin’s face.

“Yeah, oh,” Austin joked. “I told the twins.”

“And?”

“Same reaction as you guys.”

“We won’t break your trust, Austin,” I assured him. “Never.”

“I know that.” His eyes snapped up to Stevie. “She’s new to the group. That takes time.” It was understandable. Jon Ming asked him a question about a class and my focus moved to Andrew, who was now engaged in a conversation with a girl who was in our calculus class, Olivia. She was asking him about an assignment we had due in a few days. Jasmine was talking to Caleb about another one of his weird theories but her eyes kept darting over to Olivia, a frown on her face.

Sam must’ve noticed too—the moment Jasmine excused herself to go to the bathroom he leaned into my ear and whispered, “She’s jealous?”

I jumped back in surprise—Sam was closer to me than I’d realized. “You okay?”

“Yeah,” I said, bewildered by my racing heartbeat. “I think she is.”

“She has nothing to worry about,” he assured me, his other hand playing with my camera strap. “Has she seen the way Andrew looks at her?”

“Jasmine jumps to conclusions sometimes,” I said.

I was right. She did it whenever we watched a movie, predicting the ending. She did it when she decided that she and Andrew weren’t going to work out before they had even gotten together.

The thought stayed in my head later that evening, when Cedric was in my room after officially meeting my dad over dinner. The two had hit it off, with Cedric being as polite as he’d ever been. With a quick warning from my dad to keep the door open—which made me turn red instantly—I dragged Cedric up to my room to do the homework we needed to do. I was snacking on a Pop-Tart as he went through his phone, showing me different posts from social media.

A loud knock came from downstairs. Justin was at the rec center playing basketball with his friends and my dad was most likely in his study. Pulling myself out of Cedric’s arms, I headed downstairs to the door. I opened it to see Jasmine, her braided extensions up in a bun that I’d rarely ever seen her wear.

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