The Crushes by Pamela Wells

Author:Pamela Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

TWENTY-SIX

Rule 7: Be adventurous and daring! See life as an adventure!

Rule 31: Do not send your friend to tell your crush you like him!

On Sunday afternoon, Kelly sat on one side of the living room in the cushy reclining chair and her brother on the other side on the couch. There was a bag of popcorn in Todd’s lap and a bowl in Kelly’s. The TV blared music videos. It was literally the only thing on right now.

“Ready?” Todd said, a piece of popcorn in his hands.

Kelly opened her mouth into an O, and Todd chucked the piece of popcorn at her. She leaned forward, eyeing the popcorn sailing through the air. She caught it.

“Yes!” she said, clenching her hands into victorious fists. “Now my turn.”

She threw a piece at Todd, but it sailed right over his head and disappeared behind the couch.

“Nice throw,” he said sarcastically.

“Ha. Ha. Let me try another one.” She tossed another piece to him and this time he snatched it from the air.

She clapped her hands. “Yeah! You were like a dog catching a Frisbee.”

Todd narrowed his eyes. “Aren’t you HIL-arious.”

Kelly set her bowl of popcorn on the coffee table and went over to the couch, flopping down next to her brother. “I’m bored!”

“Let’s build a castle out of cheese.”

“You are such an idiot.”

Kelly closed her eyes and instantly she thought of Drew. She’d been thinking of him all day. And all day yesterday while she worked at the shelter. And all day the day before that, too.

It didn’t help that he was best friends with her brother and at the house all the time. Something had changed between them. She couldn’t tell what. Maybe it was the fact that she’d admitted out loud to Adam that she liked Drew.

Drew didn’t know that, of course, but that had to change the way Kelly acted around him and maybe he’d picked up on it.

“Let’s go do something, then,” Todd said, chomping on a mouthful of popcorn.

“Like what?” Kelly sat up.

“Something fun.”

The Crush Code came to mind. Despite the idea behind it (forcing Kelly to go after Adam) some of the rules were fun to follow. Maybe there was an idea in the code.

“I’ll be right back,” she said and went to her room to grab her list of rules.

Rule 1: Be playful, fun, and flirty!

Nope.

Rule 6: Make him feel special—

No.

Rule 7: Be adventurous and daring!

Hmm…that had potential, but what could they do in Birch Falls that was adventurous and daring?

When she was a kid, she, Todd and Drew, and some other kids from the neighborhood would get a group together to play capture the flag.

That used to be her favorite game.

Tucking the Code back in her desk, she went out to the living room.

“I have an idea,” she said. “Let’s play capture the flag.”

Todd spit out a popcorn kernel. “Hell, yeah. I’m in.”

“Cool.” Kelly grabbed his cell phone off the coffee table and tossed it to him. “Call Drew and see if he can come.”

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