The Trouble with Dating Sue (Grover Beach Team #6) by Anna Katmore Page A
Authors: Anna Katmore
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then I definitely want you.”
Now, Sue actually laughed out loud, but I wasn’t so sure whether she sounded amused or frustrated. “You need to understand that I could never kiss a guy without having true feelings for him,” she informed me as if making an official statement, “which I don’t have for you, Chris.”
“Really?” Could somebody enlighten me now as to what one had to do with the other, please? “I’ve kissed more than twenty girls the past few months, and it was lots of fun. But not one of them made me feel anything.” No, that wasn’t quite the truth. In fact, it depended on how the word feel was interpreted here, so I added, “Well, other than—”
“Stop it!” Sue cut me short. “I don’t want to hear it.”
No? I laughed. “Okay, okay.” I wouldn’t like to hear about her ex-lovers either. If she’d had one yet. A geek and sex in junior year? Mmm, I wouldn’t bet my life on it. Then again, tonight she’d totally busted the geek image of herself. Which got me back on track. “Anyway, there’s another reason why I want you.”
“What’s that?” She sounded truly curious. A good sign.
Eyes closing, I recalled the sexy sway of her hips, then cleared my throat, and said in a low rumble, “You looked way hot in that dress today. Definitely not like a geek, which should answer your question to begin with.” After a short pause in which I stared into the distance and suddenly saw myself in Ethan’s place, taking Sue home earlier, I added in an even lower drawl, “If I’d been the one driving you home tonight, I would have kissed you. And you would have liked it.”
Sue stopped breathing again. Mission accomplished.
Blinking a couple times helped free myself from the beguiling vision of kissing her. “Sleep tight, sweetness.” It came out as a whisper. Smiling, I hung up, so she could revel in that fantasy herself.
Phone dropped to my lap, I expelled a long breath. When was the last time a girl had gotten me edgy like this? The feeling of not knowing if I could really land her in the end began to screw with my mind. It came with a load of excitement and weird anticipation. I had to go back in my memory as far as Amanda to recognize a similar feeling. Amanda hadn’t been a challenge. She’d been my first love…and my last, for that matter.
Love. What a strange word to bring up now. I wasn’t feeling anything remotely close to it for Sue. Nevertheless, the girl had something about her that made me think of funny ways to crack through her walls. It wasn’t only about showing her that she was no different than any other chick and I could have her if I wanted. Tonight, the course of this challenge had taken a turn. Now I needed to have her to actually prove to myself that I could.
*
Two hours later, lying in my bed, bored and wide awake, I wondered if it had been a mistake not to meet with the girls in the shopping center. If Becks was there, Tyler couldn’t be too far, and some foosball would have provided the distraction I needed. Lauren could have been that kind of distraction too, but somehow I wasn’t in the mood.
Eyes shut, I planned my next move with Sue. I kept replaying our encounter in detention, followed by the delicious moment of me feeding her a piece of kiwi tonight. Now if that wasn’t some serious progress, I didn’t know what was. And then we had that phone call to boot.
Although I didn’t know if making her aware that—with the twin thing—she was actually sort of crushing on me too made things about this challenge easier or more complicated. The trouble was, even if she was aware of her attraction to me, she would only try harder now to keep me at a distance.
Counterproductive.
Exhaling a sigh paired with a smile, I rolled onto my back and put an arm beneath my head, the other hand flat on my stomach. Sue really was a piece of work. Considering her resistance, winning her in the end would be an even bigger glory.
Another wave of
Now, Sue actually laughed out loud, but I wasn’t so sure whether she sounded amused or frustrated. “You need to understand that I could never kiss a guy without having true feelings for him,” she informed me as if making an official statement, “which I don’t have for you, Chris.”
“Really?” Could somebody enlighten me now as to what one had to do with the other, please? “I’ve kissed more than twenty girls the past few months, and it was lots of fun. But not one of them made me feel anything.” No, that wasn’t quite the truth. In fact, it depended on how the word feel was interpreted here, so I added, “Well, other than—”
“Stop it!” Sue cut me short. “I don’t want to hear it.”
No? I laughed. “Okay, okay.” I wouldn’t like to hear about her ex-lovers either. If she’d had one yet. A geek and sex in junior year? Mmm, I wouldn’t bet my life on it. Then again, tonight she’d totally busted the geek image of herself. Which got me back on track. “Anyway, there’s another reason why I want you.”
“What’s that?” She sounded truly curious. A good sign.
Eyes closing, I recalled the sexy sway of her hips, then cleared my throat, and said in a low rumble, “You looked way hot in that dress today. Definitely not like a geek, which should answer your question to begin with.” After a short pause in which I stared into the distance and suddenly saw myself in Ethan’s place, taking Sue home earlier, I added in an even lower drawl, “If I’d been the one driving you home tonight, I would have kissed you. And you would have liked it.”
Sue stopped breathing again. Mission accomplished.
Blinking a couple times helped free myself from the beguiling vision of kissing her. “Sleep tight, sweetness.” It came out as a whisper. Smiling, I hung up, so she could revel in that fantasy herself.
Phone dropped to my lap, I expelled a long breath. When was the last time a girl had gotten me edgy like this? The feeling of not knowing if I could really land her in the end began to screw with my mind. It came with a load of excitement and weird anticipation. I had to go back in my memory as far as Amanda to recognize a similar feeling. Amanda hadn’t been a challenge. She’d been my first love…and my last, for that matter.
Love. What a strange word to bring up now. I wasn’t feeling anything remotely close to it for Sue. Nevertheless, the girl had something about her that made me think of funny ways to crack through her walls. It wasn’t only about showing her that she was no different than any other chick and I could have her if I wanted. Tonight, the course of this challenge had taken a turn. Now I needed to have her to actually prove to myself that I could.
*
Two hours later, lying in my bed, bored and wide awake, I wondered if it had been a mistake not to meet with the girls in the shopping center. If Becks was there, Tyler couldn’t be too far, and some foosball would have provided the distraction I needed. Lauren could have been that kind of distraction too, but somehow I wasn’t in the mood.
Eyes shut, I planned my next move with Sue. I kept replaying our encounter in detention, followed by the delicious moment of me feeding her a piece of kiwi tonight. Now if that wasn’t some serious progress, I didn’t know what was. And then we had that phone call to boot.
Although I didn’t know if making her aware that—with the twin thing—she was actually sort of crushing on me too made things about this challenge easier or more complicated. The trouble was, even if she was aware of her attraction to me, she would only try harder now to keep me at a distance.
Counterproductive.
Exhaling a sigh paired with a smile, I rolled onto my back and put an arm beneath my head, the other hand flat on my stomach. Sue really was a piece of work. Considering her resistance, winning her in the end would be an even bigger glory.
Another wave of
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