Page 208 of The Blairville Legacies

Larissa looked down as if she needed to think.

Then I remembered something I hadn’t even thought about.

“He’s probably part of the football team”

“How long have you been texting?” Larissa asked.

Bay also looked at me with curiosity.

“About a year?”

I wasn’t sure... Maybe even longer?

“A yearand you both don’t know who each other’s real personalities are?” Larissa looked at me blankly. “I think it’s about time you met him.”

“I can’t,” I confessed nervously.

“I know, you want to know what he looks like beforehand, okay...”

It was nice not to have to lie when she finished my sentences for me.

It wasn’t about his looks, but about the fact that I liked the way things were right now.

“We already know that he might play football here. We could go to a game.”

It wasn’t a bad idea, but who had mentionedwe?

“The season for that is coming to an end,” Bay replied to her friend.

“A training session then.”

“Too obvious,” I said and Bay nodded in agreement.

“Mh...”

Larissa should stop worrying about my private life. But how could I make her understand?

“Honestly, if I wanted to find out if someone was taking a sport, I’d just look through the team list in the student records. Maybe then, you could determine by process of elimination who from the list could be Erik.”

Bayla made it sound so easy.

“I can’t get to the digital files...”

Larissa looked at me, and I shrugged my arms. Then she looked at Bay, and the latter raised her head.

Bay’s smile disappeared.

“No,” she said, shaking her head.

Larissa’s grin widened again. “It wasyouridea.”

“Over my dead body.”

“You lost the bet.”

“You’ll get your twenty dollars!”

“But I don’t want your mother’s money.”

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