Puppy Love

Informationen zum Autor A. Destiny and Catherine Hapka Klappentext When high school sophomore Lauren takes her new Sheltie to "puppy kindergarten," she finds herself attracted to the class instructor, Adam, but he may not be the perfect boyfriend candidate she believes him to be.Puppy Love Chapter One Saturday morning Would you hang on to that thing?” Robert complained as he steered into the turn lane for the Maple View Shopping Center. “Because if your crazy beast pees in my new car, I’m totally going Cruella De Vil on him.” “Muckle is not a thing.” I grabbed my sheltie puppy in mid-leap. He was supposed to be sitting on my lap, but he’d spent most of the ten-minute drive clambering around trying to look out every window in the car at once. “And in case you haven’t noticed,” I added, “this car hasn’t been new since the days of the horse and buggy.” Robert let out a snort and flipped back the lock of dark hair he’d been wearing gelled down over one eye lately. Retro goth? Who knew. Robert tended to create his own styles. “So not the point,” he muttered. I could tell by his wounded tone that my snarky comment had hit a sore spot. That was the thing about my best friend, the one and only Robert James Chase. I’d never have told him so, but he dished it out a lot better than he took it. He totally thought of himself as a superconfident future celebrity, tossing off witty one-liners and just generally being fabulous. In reality? He was a lot less ready for prime time than he thought he was. It was so easy to get under his skin it wasn’t even funny. For instance, all you had to do was call him Robby or Bob instead of Robert, and he’d sulk for the rest of the day. Anyway, he’d been expecting automotive luxury for his sixteenth birthday a couple of months earlier, which hadn’t seemed like such a long shot. His parents had more money than they knew what to do with, and they drove top-of-the-line sports cars themselves. So imagine his surprise when the big day arrived and they presented him with a sturdy, practical Volvo station wagon older than he was. As Robert pulled said Volvo land boat into the parking lot, Muckle was wiggling in my arms like only a three-and-a-half-month-old Shetland sheepdog puppy can wiggle. Or so I assumed. I’d only been a dog owner for a little over six weeks, so I was still getting the hang of it. “Anyway, it’s probably illegal to drive with him jumping around like that,” Robert added sullenly. “I mean, they don’t even let you text and drive, and having some weirdo puppy boinging off your face is way more distracting.” “Whatever.” I was tired of his whining. After yanking a chunk of my wavy blah-brown hair out of Muckle’s slobbery little mouth, I reached over and cranked up the music. My favorite CD was playing—the latest by the amazing Scottish band Skerrabra. Their lead singer, Corc, was just about the hottest guy I’d ever seen. Possibly the hottest guy who’d ever lived. Hearing his incredible voice even made Robert look happier. His crush on Corc was only slightly less epic than mine. “Here we go—you’ve reached your destination, me bonny hen,” Robert announced in a pretty fair imitation of Corc’s sexy Scottish brogue. He pulled to the curb in front of the local PetzBiz superstore, leaving the Volvo idling loudly. “I’ll be back to pick you up in an hour.” “Wait, what?” I blinked at him in surprise. “Aren’t you coming in with us?” Robert sighed, smoothing down the lapels of his vintage Hawaiian shirt. Did I mention that Robert has an interesting sense of style? “Things to do. Places to be. People to see. You know how it is.” “But—” I wasn’t sure what to say. This was going to be Zusammenfassu...

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• Autori: A. Destiny, A./ Hapka Destiny, Catherine Hapka
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 12 a 17 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9781442484122
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-8412-2
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Flirt; Flirt (Simon Plus); Flirt
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi