Wicked Heart Beat - A Listen To Your Heart Book

Surprises

   Auradon was abuzz, everyone anxious for summer. It was the last week of school and drama still remained. Mal had not spoken to Evie in who knows how long and Evie was honestly exasperated and desperate to somehow recuperate her best friend again.

"I can't do this anymore!" Evie yelled suddenly, dropping her books. Doug and Audrey jumped at the sound. Evie got up from the lunch table and started pacing.

"Ugh. She's doing it again," Audrey said, not looking up from her book.

"Evie, sweetie, maybe you should calm down," Doug said.

Evie sat plopped into her seat dramatically. Audrey rolled her eyes.

"I can't calm down! Not talking to Mal is killing me! And so is sleeping on the floor." Evie's said, rubbing her sore back.

"Sorry," Audrey apologized. "But Crystal wanted her bed back."

"Hey, speaking of Crystal, why aren't you sitting with her and your cheerleader friends?" Evie asked. Audrey turned to look at the cheerleader table. Jay was there making googly eyes at Crystal, with the whole cheer squad gushing at how cute they were.

"I just didn't feel like it," Audrey said dismissively, still looking at the table. She turned around to face her friends and saw Doug smirking. "What?"

"Could you be more obvious?" Doug asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Audrey said, poking at her salad.

"You know very well that you've been staring at Crystal and Jay this whole time," Doug teased.

"And why would I do that?" Audrey stuttered, blushing. She had been caught.

"Oh I don't know," Doug smiled. "Maybe because you have feelings for a certain someone."

"Wait! What!" Evie said. "Audrey likes Jay?"

"Seems so," Doug said.

"Doug don't start-" Audrey said.

"Audrey why didn't you tell me?" Evie interrupted.

"Audrey, you can't keep denying this forever," Doug said matter of factly.

"I'm not denying anything!"

"Sure you're not."

"I'm not!"

"I can see the look on your face!"

"What look?"

"The love stricken face."

"That's just my face!"

"Mhm."

"Doug!"

"Audrey!"

"I don't like Jay!" Audrey yelled, stabbing her lettuce with every word. They heard a crack and Audrey looked down to see her broken fork.

Doug smirked. "Your fork says otherwise."

Audrey growled under her breath, and she shot Doug a death glare. "Why can't you just leave it alone?"