Posted: Jan. 21, 2014
From New York Times bestselling author of NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS...Jane’s been in love with her best friend Lance since they were kids. Best friend, that is, until he ditched her for the more popular crowd. What’s a computer nerd doing spending time with jocks anyway?
When he asks her for help getting a date to the prom with the most popular girl in school she almost tells him to take a flying leap. But she’d be spending time with him, teaching him to dance and he’d be holding her...that sounded like heaven.
So she says yes.
But how much practice can her heart take?
The Practice Date is a novelette, 11,000 words, 50 pages in paperback.
MY REVIEW:
Jane
had been friends with Lance her neighbor since they were kids, she now 16 and
he is now 17. They used to hang out
playing the video game Avengers, but for a little over a year now he has been
hanging out with the popular kids. Not
once thinking to include her or visit her.
On this day on her way home from school he
is waiting on his porch as she passes so he can talk to her. When he speaks to her she acts like she didn’t
notice him. Then he asks if she wants to
hang out. She knows there is something
up and wants to get mad but instead says okay to see what it is. When they get all settled in her den playing
several rounds of Avengers, he drops the bomb.
He needs a complete makeover to get the right to ask Tiffany, the most popular
cheerleader out. The love of his life,
out to prom. With each word he is
stabbing her in the heart.
Of course she wants to drop kick him at
this point for not seeing she is in love with him. She agrees to help only because she thinks of
all the time they will spend together, in each other’s arms while she teaches
him to dance. Some time with him is
better than no time with him. During the
last event a kiss was stolen and the nerd who was turned into the swan panics
and leaves. He tells her he will be back
tomorrow. She thinks she’s blown it.
Does he come back? Can Jamie ever tell Lance her true
feelings? Or is she doomed to create but
never be the princess at the ball?
I really enjoyed this young adult short
story. Lance ended up being a really
sweet guy that brought a happily ever after to this story. Which was nice truly a sweet story.
Got it free from
Amazon.
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