Win me a prize, okay?"Ĭonrad nodded quickly, and I said bye to the girl and left. I made a big show of looking at my watch and said, "Con, I'm gonna go ride the Ferris wheel before we leave. I had a feeling it might be the last time. I'd never seen him blush before, not in the whole time I'd known him. "No." To Conrad she said, "You think they're too short?" "I thought you said they were too short when I wore the exact same pair two days ago." I turned to the girl and said, "Conrad is so overprotective. "I like your shorts."Ĭonrad cleared his throat. She had braces, but on her they looked interesting, like teeth jewelry and not like orthodontics. The girl smiled at us, and I smiled back, but it was just for show. I grabbed him by his shirt sleeve and walked right up to the booth. "Do you want to know her?" I asked impatiently. "Do I want to what?" Conrad was confused, which was annoying. He looked startled, like he'd forgotten I was there. I could see it all in the way he looked at her, the way he almost seemed to hold his breath. He'd brought me because he hadn't wanted to come alone and he hadn't wanted Steven and Jeremiah to give him a hard time. She had it pulled over to the side, and it was so long that she had to keep flicking it away as she handed people rings.Ĭonrad had come to the boardwalk for her. I think it might have been the prettiest hair I'd ever seen. It was red, but it was so light it was almost peach. Everything about her was skinny, even her lips. Her legs were skinny and freckled, and so were her arms. The shorts looked a whole lot better on her. I felt so good about buying those shorts with Susannah, and then the boys had laughed at me for it. The exact same kind of shorts that the boys had made fun of me for wearing two days before. They were canary yellow, and they were really, really short. The first thing I noticed about her was her shorts. He was watching the girl who worked the ringtoss. It's so hypocritical," I said, and my voice trailed off when I saw that Conrad wasn't even listening. She claims to be so against TV, but then she watches movies on A&E, like, the whole time we're here. Steven and my dad and I have been trying to convince her for forever. "I think when we get back, my mom might finally get cable. As usual, he wasn't talking much, so I talked even more to make up for it. "Let's go."Ĭonrad walked straight over to the ringtoss, and I had to walk superquick to keep up. '"Kay," I said, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand. I wolfed down the rest of my apple in about two bites. I could already picture myself showing it off to Taylor. He wanted to win me a stuffed animal! I already knew which one I'd pick too-the polar bear with wire-frame glasses and a scarf. "When you finish that, let's go to the ring-toss." He sipped his Coke noisily, and then glanced down at his watch. I bit into my apple, carefully I was worried I might get caramel all stuck in my teeth, and then how would he kiss me? I said, "Let's sit down so I can eat my apple," so we did. There would be rain tomorrow, but that night there were cool breezes and that was it. It was one of those perfect summer nights, the kind where there's a cool breeze and not one drop of rain. As we walked down the boardwalk, I let my arm hang loose- in case.
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