Page 93 of Before We're More Than Friends
Like Airplanes.
Hayden must’ve noticed that ideas were running through my mind because he looked at my notebook. “Got something?”
“I think so,” I said with a smile. “I don’t know. It can be a placeholder for now, but it sounds like a real band name.”
“Like Airplanes,” he murmured. “I like that.”
“Me too,” Oliver said. “Much better than anything Caleb could come up with.”
Caleb scoffed. “You weren’t sprouting any good ideas either, Mr. Magnetic Melodies.”
“Hey! We’re a band who will make catchy songs and attract people.”
“You mean chicks.”
“Can you guys not?” Hayden let out a tired sigh. “Gosh, Caleb, you’ve been up Oliver’s ass ever since Kami turned him down.”
“Wait.” I blinked as Oliver’s cheeks turned pink. “Kami rejected you?”
“She didn’t tell you?” Oliver asked. “She rejected me at the Saturn Frenzy.”
“Right before a kiss,” Caleb said. “Big bummer.”
“Kiss?” I asked. Kami had rejected Oliver? Two and a half weeks ago? “And I’m now just finding out about this?”
“It doesn’t matter.” Oliver waved a hand. “We didn’t even know each other for a week.”
“I’m sorry she rejected you,” I said, seeing the humiliation in his eyes. “But she never told me. She never tells me anything.”
“Sisters,”Hayden muttered.
“Yeah.” I stared at my lap, trying to regain my focus. “Um, let’s get back to the band. Are we sold on the name?”
“We can ask the girls for feedback, but I think it’s good for now,” Caleb said.
The guys nodded and got back to work on brainstorming ideas for the band. I, on the other hand, couldn’t take my mind off Kami and Oliver. All her secret-keeping would end today.
I managed to keep my mouth shut until dinner, when Mom and Kami were talking about the shelter to Dad.
“So were you going to tell me that you rejected Oliver?” I blurted after picking at my pasta for the past five minutes. I immediately regretted it, wishing I could’ve waited until our parents weren’t in the room.
Kami blinked at me, the color draining from her face as she lowered her fork. Both of our parents shifted their gazes to her. “What?” she asked.
Well, it was too late to go back. “My friends told me at lunch today that you turned Oliver down.”
“Who’s Oliver?” Dad asked, raising an eyebrow. “Is he someone I should worry about?”
“He’s Amy Landers’ son,” Mom said. “I didn’t know you turned him down. You two hit it off well.”
“We did . . .” Kami’s cheeks flushed. “Why did you bring this upnow?” she hissed at me, gritting her teeth.
“Why did you bring it upnever?” I shot back. “Why do you never tell me anything?”
“Why do you never tell me about your thing with Raina?” she barked. “Why do you always pretend you’re not into her when everyone knows you are?”
I fell silent in horror. Okay, that wasn’t a Kami move. It was straight-up Kameron.
Now Mom and Dad were looking at me.
