Rival Love
Release Date: 08/26/14
Swoon Romance
Summary:
Skylar Fletcher is a proud Harris Academy Bulldog! She has everything she’s ever wanted: a perfect boyfriend, great friends, and her dream college waiting for her in the fall. But nothing lasts forever. Skylar's world shatters when her mom decides it is time to move and drags Skylar, kicking and screaming, into Bobcat territory.
At Delmont High School, home of the Bobcats, Skylar has no friends and is often bullied. To make matters worse, her home life sucks thanks to all-star quarterback Caleb Morgan, nephew of her mom's live-in boyfriend.
At first Skylar and Caleb want nothing to do with one another. But they soon discover they're not that different after all--and each is harboring a secret attraction to the other. But can a Bulldog and a Bobcat ever really be more than friends? And are Skylar and Caleb willing to risk everything to find out? Rival Love is a debut young adult contemporary romance from Natalie Decker.
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Excerpt:
“Let’s get this shit over
with.” I march forward. Once I’m halfway to the doors, I glance back. She’s
actually following. A permanent scowl is on her face, but I don’t really give a
crap about that.
Opening the side door, I
wait for her. I should slam it in her face, but I don’t. A part of me knows how
much this must suck for her. The other part wants her to be so freaking
miserable it isn’t funny. Especially, after she decided to go all dog and bite
me. Crazy bitch.
I glance down at her
schedule and make my way through the long hallway then up the flight of stairs
labeled “C wing.” Up on the third floor, we walk down two more halls and I stop
at room 310. “Here’s where your social psychology class is, hopefully you learn
something in there.”
She curls her upper lip
and mouths, “Hopefully you learn something.”
“Right. Moving on to your
next class.”
We work our way over to
the next flight of stairs and head down to the basement floor. Over in the E
wing, at room 12, I chuckle. “And this is Italian IV.”Of course she’d
take Italian for four years. So she’s one of those stuck-up, wannabe chicks who
dreams of going abroad and sucking down wine all day. Dream on, girl, dream on.
“What’s so funny about
taking Italian?”
I’m not answering her
stupid question. If she wants to take the most pointless language on the
planet, that’s her choice. With a schedule like hers I don’t know why she’s not
taking Chinese or freaking Japanese.
She taps her foot. “Well?”
I shake my head. “When are
you going to use it?”
“When I go to Italy with
my dad next summer. Any more questions you want to ask me?”
I can see the challenge in
her eyes. She wants me to mock her again so she can twist it around and make me
look like a dipshit. I sort of feel like one, but it’s not enough to stop me
from asking her, “Why don’t you live with him?”
She looks down at the
tiled floor and sighs audibly. “He’s a professor in New York. He’s constantly
working—lectures, papers, whatever.” She bites her lower lip and looks away.
“So you believe he’s too
busy for you?”
Skylar shrugs. “It doesn’t
matter. Can we not talk about my dad right now?” She stalks
off and it makes me curious. What’s she hiding?
I could pry but then that
would leave a door open for her to do the same. My own past is a closed door,
and won’t be revisited any time soon. So instead of questioning her more, we
continue down the hall in silence. Working my way to the B wing of the
building, I zigzag us through different halls until we reach room 204. “Civics
is here and two doors down is World Literature.” I can’t believe we’ve got
these two classes together. I’m not about to tell her either, who knows what
stupid shit she might pull next.
In silence, we make our
way back to the basement area and into the commons. “This is the lunch area.
Over there”—I point to the right, away from the large open space filled with
round tables and chairs—“that’s the new gym. And over to the left behind that
oval glass window is the pool. Of course you know that.”
She nods. “Yeah. What’s
next?”
“Do you want to see the
pool?”
“No.”
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