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“That’s great,” he says with a smile. “You guys are lucky.”
“We know,” Liam says. “Very lucky.”
Aidan and Ava talk about the dinner party they went to and I notice my “boyfriend” picking at his food with his fork. He seems really bothered about something. What could it be?
The bell rings.
Colt slides his hand into mine as we follow our friends—also with clasped hands—out of the cafeteria.
“Your friends are really nice and welcoming,” he tells me with a smile
“Yeah, they’re the best. Sorry you couldn’t sit with your friends.”
He turns to his table, where his friends are chatting and laughing, and I must be seeing things because it doesn’t seem like it bothers him that he’s not there.
But that’s impossible. Colt is the king of school. That table is his throne and his friends are his nobles.
That’s how it’s always been. That’s how Edenbury High makes sense.
“What are you thinking about?” he asks as his eyes search mine.
“Nothing,” I lie. “Just my app.”
“When will you see results?”
“It needs time to gather the information, so a few days. Two weeks tops. Then I’ll need to make the necessary adjustments and put all the data together and…” I puff out my cheeks. “Have it ready in time for the competition.”
He shoots me a wide grin. “If anyone can do it, it’s Willow Park. She’s determined, driven, and she doesn’t let anything hold her back.”
A weird sensation attacks my stomach. It’s something I never felt before and honestly, I don’t understand it.
“Thanks. But you do realize you’re encouraging the future winner right?”
He chuckles. I didn’t realize it before, but he looks so cute when he smiles. And the way his hair falls over his beautiful green eyes…
What the heck is going through my mind?
He bends close. “That’s because I’mthatconfident in my app.” The bell rings. “I’ll see you after school, Willow.”
Shoving his hands into his pockets, he saunters away. And I watch him until I knock some sense into myself.
Chapter Nineteen
Willow
“Mom!” Mia yells. “I can’t find my lucky rabbit!”
She and my parents are getting ready to leave for L.A. for Mia’s audition. They’ll be gone the entire weekend.
I’m sitting on the couch with another pirate book my friends and I are reading for book club. All of us loved the other one so much that pirate romance might just be our next thing.
“Mom!” she yells again.
“I’m coming, Mia!” Mom calls from the kitchen. “One second.”
I try to block out the chaos that occurs in the Park house every time Mia has an audition, but they’re making it quite difficult.
“I can’t go on an audition without her!” Mia hurries down the stairs, missing every two steps and nearly falling flat on her face.
