The Islanders #2; Nina Won't Tell & Ben's In Love by Katherine Applegate

Author:Katherine Applegate [Applegate, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic, Romance, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780062340788
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

“Ow, ow. That hurts.” Zoey Passmore winced and tried to pull away.

“That’s what you get for throwing things at me without warming up first,” Lucas said, unimpressed by her complaints. “You’ve pulled your shoulder muscle. If you’re going to heave a book at my head, you should at least warm up—you know, stretch. All that time going out with a jock and you learned nothing.” He poured some more oil into his palms, rubbed them together, and went back to work kneading Zoey’s bare shoulder.

Lucas was leaning against the mountain of pillows at the head of Zoey’s bed. She sat cross-legged with her back to him, T-shirt off and the shoulder strap of her bra lowered.

“I didn’t heave a book at your head in a jealous rage,” Zoey corrected him in a drowsy, relaxed voice. “Oh, that’s good; yeah, yeah, like that. I just tossed a magazine to you.”

“A very big magazine. Very fast toss.”

“Do that some more. It’s your fault, anyway. You asked for it.”

“I was just quoting from the magazine,” Lucas said mildly. “I didn’t make up the statistics. I was just pointing out that in the article they said the majority of people our age are having sex. I didn’t necessarily mean anything by it.”

Zoey twisted her head toward the good side, pried open one eye, and gave him a look. He broke into a smile. “Okay, maybe I had a small ulterior motive.”

“Yeah, maybe,” Zoey said dryly. “See, your mistake was you shouldn’t have gone right from talking about that to talking about Louise Kronenberger.”

“I was making a joke. I was just saying she probably accounted for a lot of that statistic all by herself. Joke. Ha ha.”

“Ow, not quite that hard,” Zoey said.

“You should put some ice on it,” Lucas said.

Zoey twisted around again. “So should you.”

“Oh, that’s funny, Zoey.”

“Anyway, if you like K-burger so much, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to get to know her,” Zoey said with poisoned sweetness. “You have the big ceremonial homecoming king and queen dance. Maybe you could bring a copy of that magazine article. You could whisper statistics in her ear.”

Lucas sighed deeply. “This is why I didn’t want to get into the whole homecoming thing. I’m getting swept up into the whole school-spirit-popular-people-who-saw-who-with-who-else thing.”

“You’re trying to change the subject,” Zoey said.

Lucas suddenly pulled her onto her back and crouched over her, pinning her arms over her head. “No, now I’m changing the subject.”

He lowered his face to hers and they kissed, a long, slow kiss that left them both breathless.

Suddenly there was a knock at the bedroom door. And before Zoey could think of how to respond, the door opened.

“Aisha!” Zoey gasped. She pushed Lucas off her and began a frantic search for her shirt. Lucas grabbed a pillow and rested it on his lap.

“Oh, God, I’m interrupting something, aren’t I?” Aisha said.

“No, no,” Zoey said shrilly, leaning over the side of the bed to rummage beneath it. She came up with the T-shirt, untwisted it, and pulled it on over her head.

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