THE COACH (PLAYED Book 4) by Hansen Marita A

Author:Hansen, Marita A. [Hansen, Marita A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

7

RILEY

Melissa continued texting me, new messages appearing on my phone every day. She also left voice messages, what I’d unleashed getting too much. At least with Brooke, I could ignore her, but Melissa was a totally different story. Although I’d stopped replying back, I still read and listened to every message, acting like a fool for a girl who’d cheated on me with my enemy. It was even worse when Daniel returned to school, his suspension unfortunately coming to an end. Seeing him in the hallways made me want to sucker punch him like he’d done to me, stomping him in the head, not stopping until he regretted ever going after my girl.

My girl.

But she wasn’t my girl anymore, Lucy was. I glanced sideways at Lucy, who was eating lunch next to me. It wasn’t much, some kind of salad that could barely feed a rabbit let alone a teenage girl. She went still at my attention, her fork halfway to her mouth.

“What?” she asked, looking self-conscious.

“That’s boring,” I said.

She lowered her fork. “What’s boring?”

“Your food. You want a bite of mine?” I speared some of my lasagna and held it out for her to eat.

She flushed, her pale skin lighting up brighter than Rudolph’s nose. “No, I’m fine,” she replied, tucking some dark curls behind her ear, “salad can be filling.”

I shrugged and stuffed the lasagna in my mouth. She didn’t continue eating, instead watching me.

I swallowed down the food, giving her a “What?” back.

She wrinkled her nose. “Do you regret choosing me?” she whispered, her eyes flicking to the next table. My friends were surrounding it, and I would’ve been sitting with them if it wasn’t for Brooke. Zuko couldn’t shake her even with her father’s promise, the girl like a bad smell that wouldn’t go away. But it wasn’t Zuko Brooke was paying attention to, her eyes superglued to me.

I turned my attention back to Lucy. “No,” I said, definitely not regretting choosing her over Brooke.

No smile came, Lucy obviously not believing me, and I knew why. I’d been distant over the past week, Melissa constantly on my mind. It didn’t help that my ex kept dredging up memories, happy ones, her cheating unable to wipe them away. Maybe Zuko was right, I liked the bad girls. Though, Lucy wasn’t like that at all. She was nice, a character trait I wasn’t used to in a girlfriend, something I was gradually getting used to. She never put demands on me like Brooke and Melissa used to, and I liked that, liked it a lot. But one thing I didn’t like was how my distraction was affecting her, something I needed to fix.

Knowing I had to stop living in the past, I wiped my mouth and leaned over, giving her a kiss on the lips—Lucy my present and future. It gave her a fright, but instead of pulling away, she returned the kiss. I jerked back a second later as something hit my head. A bread roll fell onto the floor, drawing my attention back to Brooke’s table.

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