YOU’RE IT (HARBORVIEW #1) BY LUCY HARPER – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: D.L. Darby
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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CAT
I’m standing in the basement, surrounded by piles of books, dreaming
about revenge.
It’s been over a week since Jamie tagged me in the airport, so I need to
retaliate, and soon. And it’s got to be good—especially since his last tag
was so awful. It was neither sneaky nor embarrassing.
The airport? Not embarrassing. I’ll never see any of those people ever
again. And I saw him coming from a mile away.
He’s growing weak. Easy.
Though I suppose it did have something of the old days in it, how we
used to play when we were kids—chasing one another around, running at
full speed, slamming one another into the ground (to my mother’s horror).
Simple rules: tag, you’re it. Except Jamie and I were the only two players,
and no one was ever really out.
At first, we just played in our backyards, but when we started school,
anywhere was fair game. One time Jamie tagged me in the girl’s bathroom.
When we were seven, I finally got him back while he was peeing. He
tagged me during tests and class presentations. I got him during birthdays
and events. Holidays were my specialty. Publicly embarrassing me was his.
As we grew older, the point became to make the tag as elaborate and
sneaky as possible. And the wait time between tags grew longer. What was
a three-day grace period at the start of middle school became two weeks by
the end of it. Two weeks to plot and plan how you’d get the other person
back in the most unexpected, embarrassing way possible.
One time I camped out in a tree above Jamie’s bedroom window for
four hours to tag him just as he and Bethany Cartwright started making out.
He hadn’t seen me through the drawn curtains, nor had he heard me as I’d
eased the window open. I’d nearly died falling out of the tree, and Bethany
hadn’t wanted to date him after that. But oh, was it worth it. A tag for the
ages. The biggest, fattest jewel in my crown.
He got me back by tagging me during a scholarship acceptance speech.
I’d done one hundred hours of community service and the Key Club was
awarding me $2,000 to put towards college tuition. Jamie barreled into me
just as I stepped up to the mic.
The memory makes me wince, but it also makes me smile. I’m looking
forward to living in Harborview with Jamie again, to tagging him and
messing with him in all our old haunts.
“Hello? Earth to Cat? You have inventory to complete!” My mother’s
voice breaks through my daydreaming.
“Oh, sorry,” I say, looking down at the notepad in my hand. I’d been
going through the rest of the Christmas stock for over two hours.
“My little Kit-Cat, always daydreaming.”
My mom pulls me to her side and gives me a quick kiss on the top of
my head. Her perfume is the same as always, a mix of sandalwood and
vanilla, and her ropes of beaded necklaces scratch against my neck.
It feels good to be back home, this time to stay.
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