Romance: Teen Romance: Game On (A Nerd and a Bad Boy Romance) (New Adult High School Sports Romance) Read Online Free Page B

getting into one of those ‘see if you can eat the hottest wings on the planet’ contests. No thanks.” He folded his arms in front of him on the table and leaned forward with a smile.
    “Me neither.” Faith shook her head. “And yeah, I guess I got the wrong wings.”
    “It’s all you can eat night, ” Stacy said. “You can get a different kind for the next round.”
    “How many are you going to eat?” Faith asked incredulously. “You’ve already had, like, twenty of them.”
    Stacy shrugged. “ Oh, I don’t know. Maybe a dozen more?”
    “You can have these. I can’t eat them.” Faith pushed her plate toward Stacy, who opened her eyes wide and stared at the plate as though she hadn’t already had almost two dozen of them.
    “Oh yum! Thank you, girlfriend.”
    Faith laughed and nodded. She looked over at Darryl, who was staring across the room, a watchful look on his face. She turned so she could see what he was looking at . Ethan was across the room with two girls, one arm around each of their shoulders. He was talking loudly, but they couldn’t hear what he was saying.
    “What do you think he’s doing over there?” Faith asked, looking back to Darryl. He ran his tongue over his lips and shook his head, drawing in a deep breath.
    “No idea. Why? You want me to go fetch him for you?”
    She was surprised and looked at him, tilting her head. “No.” She laughed. “Why would you even ask that?”
    He shrugged. “I thought you liked him.”
    She was surprised again and looked closely at him. It looked as though something was bothering him. “Are you all right?”
    “Sure.”
    “I’m gonna go over there for a minute.” Stacy grabbed a chicken wing off Faith’s plate and scooted out of the booth, not indicating where she meant by “there .” She looked at Andrew. “Come with me, Andrew.”
    “But I’m ea…”
    “Grab a wing and come with me, Andrew!” Stacy demanded, lightheartedly, moving her eyes in Faith and Darryl’s direction for a moment. Andrew looked at the two and then back at Stacy.
    “Oh! Oh, all right, yeah, let’s go over there.” He scooted over the bench toward Stacy, who had stood up.
    Stacy grinned at Faith. “Clueless!” She said softly before grabbing Andrew’s hand and tugging on him, moving through the crowd.
    Faith watched them leave. “What was that all about?” She turned back to Darryl. He still looked somewhat sullen, and she didn’t understand why. “What is going on with you, Darryl? What are you thinking about?”
    “Well, I was just wondering, ” Darryl said. “Do you still want to tutor me in English? I mean, I think it’s pretty obvious that Ethan doesn’t want to go out with you.”
    Faith lifted her eyebrows in surprise. “Well! Where did that come from?”
    “I think it’s the truth. Don’t you?”
    “Well…” she turned her eyes and looked at Ethan again. He wasn’t paying her any attention. He hadn’t for most of the weekend. She’d enjoyed spending her time with Stacy and Darryl. She hadn’t really thought that much about Ethan or the “deal” she’d made with Darryl to tutor him in exchange for his help in getting a chance to date Ethan. “I kind of thought that since you were friends with him, you could help me out with that, bring me to his attention.”
    Darryl huffed and shook his head, his face turning a bit dark.
    She put one hand on his folded arm.
    “But, Darryl, I see now that he…well, he isn’t really my type.”
    He looked at her, and she felt her heart jump. His eyes were very revealing. He was a blunt kind of guy anyway . But even if he hadn’t been, she would have been able to see what he was thinking in his eyes.
    “I can see that he isn’t interested.” She conceded.
    “So where does that leave me? I have to worry about my future, you know. I have to think about my classes and football and all that. I don’t have time to be messing around. He can spend his time getting drunk and doing stupid