The Heartbreak Cure by Ashby Amanda

Author:Ashby, Amanda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Crush; YA; YA romance; Teen; Teen romance, Young adult, high school, fake boyfriend, school newspaper, first heartbreak, bad boys, brownies, greeting cards
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-12-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Sweat dotted Caitlin’s brow but she ignored it as she thrust the shovel deep into the cinnamon-colored soil. Blisters stung her hands, and the sounds of the forest rang out around her. She didn’t care. All that mattered was digging the hole to crawl inside and hide in until the humiliation had passed. Dig, dig, dig.

“There you are. I’ve been looking for you everywhere,” Nikki said on Monday. Cat quickly shut her notebook and thrust it into her backpack. “What are you doing here?”

All the usual stuff.

Expressing my creativity through the written word.

Trying to work out my emotions.

Hiding.

“Nothing,” she said from her spot on the library floor. She’d chosen it because it was partially hidden by a large whiteboard. “Just working on an article. I thought you’d be with Parker.”

“I was, until Mackenzie shanghaied him. She takes this decorating thing very seriously. I’m guessing this hideaway is part of your denial approach to life. What happened to my pep talk?”

She stood up and rolled her shoulders. Turned out hiding in a two-foot space in the library was painful in more ways than one.

“It was kind of humiliating. I floated the idea of us dating, and he looked like he’d just been shot.”

“This is Alex. He always looks like that. I’m surprised you can read him at all. The guy’s a master of the deadpan. Are you sure you’re not being overly sensitive?”

“Well, let’s see, after he gave me the ‘I’ve got stuff’ speech, we walked to the car in complete silence, and I haven’t spoken to him since.” It was illogical to be mad just because she’d misread things, but telling herself that didn’t improve her mood.

The only positive was she’d spent all of yesterday working on a new article for Mackenzie. Cat Turner—powered by humiliation and caffeine.

Nikki frowned. “Did he say what the stuff was?”

“Strangely enough, I didn’t hang around to ask. He probably meant about the accident and how people always judge him. He’s always been hard on himself.”

“Sounds like someone else I know,” Nikki retorted, but thankfully decided to drop the subject as they walked to their next class. Thank goodness, because the only thing worse than being humiliated by someone you liked, was having to talk about just how horrible it really was.

…

“Wow, you look like boiled crap,” Joe said as Alex slung his backpack onto the workbench and walked over to where his overalls were kept. “Tough day at school?”

“Tough day at life,” he retorted.

“You want to talk about it?” Joe followed him over, an expectant look on his face.

“Nope.” Besides, when did Joe ever want to talk about anything? It was probably because he was dating. Next, he’d suggest they braid each other’s hair.

“Fine.” Joe shrugged and returned to the Ford he was working on. Which was good, because there was nothing to talk about.

Alex had done the right thing with Cat. In time, she’d see that.

They were better as friends. It was less dangerous. Less confusing.

And a whole lot more frustrating.

He grabbed the workbook and scanned the schedule.

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