Dave: Junior Year (Three Daves #2) Read Online Free PDF

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    Just as she wrote off Dave as yet another dead-end chapter in the most boring love story ever, she ran into him at Meryton Hall, the building where she went for Accounting II. He stood in the stairwell, talking to a cute, burlyish guy from her class. She put her head down, intending to scoot past him unnoticed. Over Christmas break she’d had the longer side of her hair lopped off so that it was now straight along the bottom—it was possible he wouldn’t even recognize her.
    “Hey, good girl!” The sound of his deep voice sent a pleasant shiver through her.
    “Oh, hey, I didn’t even notice you.” She continued climbing the stairs, though at a slower pace.
    “Hold up,” he called to her and turned back to the guy. Jen saw a baggie discreetly pass from Dave’s pocket into the guy’s jacket. Then the guy took off up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway to Jen’s classroom. Dave reached back into his pocket and pulled out a small stack of wrinkled, orange postcards. He held one out and Jen descended the steps to take one. “New band, some buddies of mine. They’re playing Thursday at Theodore’s, just north of downtown. You know it?”
    “Yeah, I think so.”
    “I’ll see you there, then?” he asked with an enticing tilt of his head.
    “Uh, maybe,” Jen stammered.
    Dave stepped close and bent over Jen, tilting her chin up so that their faces were barely an inch apart. He brushed his lips over hers, tugging at her bottom lip with his teeth and sucking it into his mouth. He slowly released her wet lip and rested his forehead on hers, piercing her with his cut-glass eyes. “How about definitely?”
    “’Kay.”
    Dave backed away, wearing a victorious smirk, and trotted down the stairs, stopping part way down to turn and give Jen a devilish wink and smile. If Jen hadn’t already decided to go to Theo’s after the kiss, that smile alone would’ve sold her on it.
    She stepped into class and walked past the guy from the stairwell to sit by her friends Joe and Marcy. The three of them had become tight the previous semester in Consumer Affairs when they’d worked on a big project together. She passed the orange card to Joe, who sat in front of Marcy. “Do you guys want to go?”
    “I’m in,” said Marcy, peering over Joe’s shoulder. “But Theo’s is a hike. We’ll need a car.”
    “Let me see if my roommate and her boyfriend will come. He has a car.” Jen preferred not to involve Chris in the outing. She’d been referring to Jen as “the Make-out Queen” ever since that night at the Garage, and Jen preferred to not get heckled as she reclaimed the throne.
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    Jen, Maria, Tom, Marcy, and her roommate Laura, arrived early at Theo’s and grabbed a long table on the top floor. It gave them a decent balcony view of the stage below. They saved one end of the table for Joe and his friends, who arrived shortly afterward. The place was enormous, with two levels and four long bars scattered throughout. Jen looked around for Dave.
    Maria had been testy about him always expecting Jen to meet him places and never picking her up himself. Jen halfway suspected her roommate’s irritation had more to do with him noticing Jen the night they’d met rather than Maria. That was something that rarely happened when the two girls were right next to each other. Jen explained that Dave didn’t have his own car, but that didn’t satisfy Maria.
    On the way to pick up Marcy and Laura earlier that night, she’d delivered an ultimatum to Jen: “You’d better invite him to the dinner party we’re throwing at our apartment next Saturday, and he better say yes or you’re through with him. Got it?”
    “Fine,” Jen had grumbled, just to shut her up. She was eager for Dave to prove to Maria that he was a decent guy. She finally spied him on the stage, setting up instruments. “There he is! I’m going to let him know we’re here.” She rushed down the stairs. He smiled when he saw her coming and