Hard to Get

Informationen zum Autor Emma Carlson Berne is the author of Never Let You Go , Still Waters , Hard to Get , and Sunset Ranch . She lives in Ohio with her family. Klappentext After a string of bad breakups! Val swears off boys until the end of the year. But when she's forced to spend all of her time with cool! cute Adam for a school project! it becomes quite difficult to keep her promise. Original. Leseprobe “I would’ve asked for this in a sippy cup if I’d known you were going to be driving the Saab,” Becca said the next morning as we headed for the Sunporch Café. She attempted another sip of her caramel latte just as I wrestled the car into second. A wave of amber liquid baptized her Seven skinny jeans. “Val!” she exclaimed. “Hey, at least we even have a car to drive today,” I said, fighting with the clutch. “Mom was threatening to take it grocery shopping, but I talked her out of it.” At the next red light, I remembered to press the clutch before stomping the brake and gingerly easing the Saab into neutral. “Yeah, I feel so lucky the Beemer’s in the shop,” Becca muttered. She had a blob of whipped cream on her upper lip. It made her look like a transvestite Charlie Chaplin. “How come we’re not picking up Kel?” “She’s meeting us. She wanted to bike.” The light turned green and I took a deep breath. Foot on clutch and brake, then off brake and on clutch, shift into first, press on accelerator, then foot off clutch but carefully. A fire truck began wailing just behind me and roared past as I slammed my foot on the brake, forgetting the clutch, of course. “Darn!” The Saab jolted across the intersection in big bronco bucks. “Hel-help, hel-help,” Becca jerked out, holding on to her coffee with both hands. “Hang on, I’ve got it now,” I said, just as the motor stalled. “Val, get us out of here!” Becca yelled, staring at the line of cars forming on either side of us. I could hear a few ominous honks. “I’m trying!” I forced myself to breathe before I shifted into neutral again and carefully eased into first. Bing. The Saab crept smoothly across the intersection as if it had never stalled in its life. “So,” Becca breathed. “Are you going to tell me about that madness online last night?” I grinned. “No, wait until we get there. Then I can explain it to both of you at once.” I braked hard as the green awning of the Sunporch suddenly loomed in front of me. The car slewed sideways and wound up in a parking space, bumper first. “Hey, look, right in front!” I chortled as I climbed from the car. I recognized Kelly’s bike locked to the telephone pole in front of us. “You’re three feet from the curb!” Becca protested. She stared at the wide gap of asphalt in dismay. “Whatever! Let’s go, I’m starving.” I could see Kelly waving to us from a table in the window. “I need some eggs Benedict, like right now.” The steamy fragrance of frying bacon hit me full in the face as we pulled open the glass doors. Sunlight flooded the little restaurant, pouring in the big front windows and spreading in pools on the gleaming wooden floor. All around was the pleasant murmur and clink of breakfast, punctuated by the ring of the cash register up front. “Okay, talk, you,” Kelly ordered the moment we slid into our seats. Her wet hair was pulled back in a loose braid, and her skin was fresh and rosy. Three orange juices stood at our places. “Oh my God, please don’t tell me you’ve already been running,” Becca moaned as she opened the huge plastic-covered menu. “It’s ten o’clock on Saturday!” Kelly shrugged. “I only did five miles like usual.” Becca rolled her eyes and looked up as a waitress with a shaved head and big plastic plugs in her earlobes appeared by our table. “I’ll have the banana chocolate-chip pancakes with whipped cream, a side of bacon, and tw...

Product details

• Authors: Emma Bernay, Emma Carlson Berne
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2010
• EAN: 9781416989516
• ISBN: 978-1-4169-8951-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Romantic Comedies; The Romantic Comedies
• Subject: Children's and young people's books