Understudy
Author: Cheyanne Young
Publisher: 336 Love
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Genres: Young adult, contemporary
romance
Summary:
The high school play is in
two months and senior Wren Barlow just became director. Wren still isn't over
the fact that she got stiffed as a stagehand instead of the lead role that she
totally deserved. Now she is in charge of rehearsals, costumes, navigating
around cast member hookups and managing the real life drama at home.
The principal counts on her to
succeed because tickets have been sold and the money has been spent. But when
he drops a gorgeous bad boy on her and wants him to help the play for extra
credit, she falls hard for someone she knows she can't date. With everything
spinning out of control, the mysterious and secretive detention king named
Derek has a few tricks up his sleeve and wants to help—too bad Wren is scared
to give him a chance to prove himself.
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Excerpt:
Greg takes
my necklace in his hands and shifts the clasp until it’s at the back of my
neck. Goosebumps trail down my arms. Not because I like him—because I don’t—but
because he’s a guy and he’s touching my neck. Greg is cute, but in a way that
makes you want to punch him. He’s insanely book smart but in an effort to hide
it, he’s a smartass. He will say the meanest shit at the worst possible time,
and it’ll make you feel like you’re a loser and yet that somehow makes you want
to try harder to impress him. He loves to make girls cry.
Last month
I accidently made out with him at Margot’s beach party.
That’s
probably why he’s being so nice.
“I found a
place behind that curtain that makes a really great spot to sit,” he says,
staring me right in the eyes because he’s also kind of short for a guy. “Want
to go sit?”
I know he
wants to make out, and it’s probably the only thing that will take my mind off
Derek and how stupid I feel for wasting an entire weekend daydreaming about
him.
I glance
around and find Aunt Barlow at the front of the stage, engrossed in her two
lead actors. She won’t miss me if I sneak away for a while.
“Yeah,” I
say. I know this is stupid and a bad decision. I know it’s the sort of thing
that parents tell their little girls about when they have the boys only want one thing talk with them.
Greg is a skeeze and I’m not even sure why I say the next few words, but I do.
“Let’s go sit.”
Cheyanne is a native Texan with a
fear of cold weather and a coffee addiction that probably needs an
intervention. She loves books, sarcasm, nail polish and paid holidays. She
lives near the beach with her family, one spoiled rotten puppy and a cat who is
most likely plotting to take over the world.
She also writes under the pen name
Amy Sparling.
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