Read Online My Best Friend's Brother by Chrissy Fanslau - Free Book Online

flour,” Ms. Sanderson said as she slapped her pointing stick on the board. “I expect every person in the room to participate by providing me with one example of something that is made with flour.” She stopped, leaned forward to see clearer, and pointed. “Thomas?”
    Tom stood up to speak. “You can make bombs with flour.” He sat back down.
    Everyone laughed, but Ms. Sanderson was not amused. “This is serious, Mr. Belling.” Then she pulled out a twenty ounce container of flour and began passing it around as a visual aid. Who needs a visual aid for flour ?
    Ninetymore minutes of this? The day needed to end!
    ~ ~ ~
    Tom didn’t throw a volleyball in my face in gym, and Jake was sluggish, not even interested in soccer. I was more enthusiastic than he was— what was going on?
    Not that I’m complaining…
    At lunch, Jake, Tom, and Tristan stared from the next table over. Anna and I glanced back at them. I picked at my lunch. She stuffed her face and studied physics.
    As soon as Luke sat down he said something, but I couldn’t hear him over all the noise. He looked at me as if waiting for an answer, but I just shook my head.
    “What are they looking at!” He elevated his voice so I could hear him.
    “I have no idea! They’ve been acting weird all day!”
    “Jenna!” Luke pointed out Jenna three tables down. She sat with a bunch of girls I’d never seen before and a giggly girl who was not old enough to even eat in our cafeteria. She was picking at her mac and cheese. “We’re doing it after third period, right?!” Luke asked.
    Anna gaped at me.
    I shook my head at her. “Don’t worry, he doesn’t mean that!” I laughed and looked at him. He wore a cute grin. “Sure!” I told him, accidentally catching Jake’s eye. Jake looked like he was disgusted by us or something.
    Luke got up, tossed his lunch, and signaled for the doors. I gave Anna a reassuring look, dumped my lunch and followed him. That cafeteria is impossible to eat in—it smells like spoiled milk and soggy pizza, even when that nasty school pizza’s not on the menu.
    He was leaning on the yellow lockers when I next saw him, looking absolutely gorgeous. His head was tilted, his hair hung down, his eyes glowed, his teeth sparkled. He wore a silver muscle shirt that complemented his eyes.
    “Hey,” he breathed. We looked around the empty hallway, then back at each other. “It’s crazy even trying to think in there,” he uttered.
    “I know. It’s strange how sometimes there’s so little noise, and other times it could pop your eardrums.”
    He nodded and looked at the floor. When our eyes met again, he smiled.
    He is way too quiet! I’d had a bad experience in which a certain horny toad dumped me in the past, and he was quiet before he did it. But Luke just looked sad, like everyone else.
    Is misery contagious?
    “What’s wrong?” I asked. “You’re quiet.”
    He rubbed his sneaker on the floor, making those annoying squeaks and little wax marks. “Did you hear about that Halloween party?”
    “Yeah…” I suddenly felt woozy.
    He took a deep breath. “Wanna go with me?”
    “Yeah!”
    He nodded and smirked. “What about the prom?”
    I laughed, relieved. “Will I go with you?” I mumbled, asking his next question for him.
    He grinned. “I don’t know, will you?”
    I threw my arms around his neck. He kissed the top of my head. “I will,” I said, never more certain of anything in my entire life.
    Hopefully Lilly would call soon. She’s never in her hotel room, so I couldn’t call her . I had to tell her I’d found him—the one that completes me. This is sort of big.
    I could hardly believe I was looking forward to cutting my favorite class just to be with him! That says a lot!
    ~ ~ ~
    “Hey Beautiful,” Luke breathed at his locker after third period. “Wanna go eat something that’s not cafeteria barf?”
    I laughed at his vivid description. “I’d love to!”
    “Adonia!” Jake waved at me from a few