Authors: Rachel Hawthorne

The Boyfriend League (17 page)

Everyone
oohed
and
ahhed
.

Even me. I'm a sucker for fireworks.

Jason pulled me closer, and everything I felt for him just seem to swell like those fireworks. It was glorious. Brighter than I'd expected it to be. Bursting forth with all sorts of emotions. Joy because he was mine. Sadness because he would be leaving. A scariness because I didn't know exactly what the future would hold for us.

Red, white, and blue streamers exploded against the black sky. The air popped.

I'd hoped for a summer boyfriend. Pick a boy. Any boy. How dumb was that?

But somehow I'd lucked out. When it came to boyfriends, I'd somehow managed to hit a home run. I was crazy about Jason. And he was crazy about me. And somehow, we'd make it work.

Another explosion of fireworks filled the sky. The colors faded away and thenâ¦a burst of red,
bang
, a burst of white,
bang
, a burst of blue,
bang
.

I was sure more followed, because I could hear the distant booms, but I was no longer watching the fireworks.

Jason was kissing me, and we were creating our own.

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Copyright

THE BOYFRIEND LEAGUE
. Copyright Â© 2007 by Rachel Hawthorne. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub Edition May 2007 ISBN 9780061756313

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