The Trouble with Dating Sue (Grover Beach Team #6) Read Online Free PDF Page B

“Where’s your brother?” she demanded.
    “Last time I checked, he was in his room.”
    “Get him on the phone, please, will you?”
    Nuh-uh. She wasn’t getting rid of me that fast, not when I hadn’t had a chance to bring up the painful scrubbing of my arm as of yet. “That means I have to get up and walk over there. I don’t think I’m in the mood to do that just now.”
    “Then why did you call me?” She sounded close to giving up and tossing the phone out her window.
    Her sweet frustration made me laugh. “I told you, because you gave me your number.”
    “Not that again,” she whined.
    “Fine…” Lowering my tone, I reverted to a seductive voice. “Then maybe to ask you to go out with me?”
    “What?” she screeched into the phone. Then, in an exasperated huff, she added, “You must be kidding me!”
    Of course, I was. What would I do with a nerd on a date? But taunting her was fun. “Nope. Why would I?”
    “Because I want to talk to your brother and not you, to begin with. And aren’t you supposed to be dating Lara?”
    “Hmmm, who’s Lara?” Did she think I had a girlfriend? Because I didn’t.
    “Asian supermodel?” Sue snorted. “Long black hair?”
    “Oh, you mean Lauren?” I concluded. “Well, I did date her yesterday. And I might again sometime.” Although the word “dating” probably had a different meaning in my books than in hers. “But there’s always a free spot in my calendar to squeeze you in, sweetness,” I kept teasing.
    “Are you actually mental?” she blurted, putting real emphasis on the words: are , you , actually , and mental .
    “I hope not.” Biting back a snicker, I said in the most serious tone I could manage, “Why? Are you not a safe girl to date?”
    “I’m the perfect girl to date, just not for you, dumbass!” she barked into the phone.
    Dumbass? Really? Now I couldn’t hold back the chuckle any longer. “Aw, don’t say that, little Sue. You don’t know me yet.”
    “And God willing, I never will. Please, go get Ethan now and stop wasting my time.”
    Oh, so curt and professional. She could be a great lawyer in a few years. “All right, you win.” I laughed and added just for good measure, “But tell you what. If it doesn't work out between you and Ethan, which I know it won’t”— because he just doesn’t seem interested in girls the way you’re hoping for, Little Miss Sunshine —“you let me take you on a date. Deal?”
    Sue’s voice was stone-cold as she told me, “When hell freezes over.”
    As far as that went, last summer Theresa Alber had asserted that she’d only let me do her when hell froze over, too. Since I slept with her on Halloween, I supposed hell was a chilly place by now. “That happens more often than you think, sweetness,” I drawled. Rising from my chair, I walked out of my room and knocked on Ethan’s door.
    Without waiting for an invitation, I entered and tossed him the phone. “Call for you.”
    Ethan, who seemed to have started his homework after the shower, leaned back in his swivel chair and held the cell to his ear, giving me an odd look. “Hello?” he said somewhat curiously into the phone.
    “By the way, she said thanks for the latte,” I shouted over my shoulder before I left the two sweethearts to themselves. Pulling the door closed behind me, I couldn’t bring my legs to move. Normally not big on eavesdropping, this time I just couldn’t resist. My possibly gay brother had a girl on the phone. I needed to know what was happening. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear much because Ethan spoke so low. Did he suspect I was listening in? Nah, doubtful.
    When the door suddenly opened, my heart gave a start. I stood guiltily frozen in the hallway and met Ethan’s gaze as he came out of his room. He studied me for a moment. Then he cracked up laughing and held out my cell. “Are you spying on me?”
    “Umm…” At least he took it in good humor. “I was—”
    “Snooping?” Ethan finished