One Moment in Time (22 page)

“I'm sick of this,” Aven says. “I'm sick of not being friends. I'm ready to make up.” She takes in a deep breath. “And none of us are leaving this bathroom until we do.”

TURN THE PAGE FOR A SNEAK PEEK AT AVEN'S STORY:

I LOOK UP.

There he is.

Liam.

My best friend.

The boy I've been in love with for four years.

He walks easily across the parking lot, his black backpack slung over his shoulder, his hair slightly messy, a coffee in one hand. He looks up and spots me and Izzy standing there, and he gives us a wave.

I marvel at how easy he's walking, as if he doesn't have a care in the world. That's always been so strange to me—how one person can have been my whole entire world for the past four years, how his every action, his every word has affected me on such a profound level. The things he's said can either knock me into the stratosphere of happiness, or throw me
into the depths of despair.

How can he not know how I feel? How is it that I've been so good at hiding the thing that's been the biggest part of my life for all these years?

“Hey,” he says when he sees us. “How are my two favorite girls?”

“Good,” I say.

“Great,” Izzy says.

She smiles up at him as he leans down and gives her a kiss.

Which is another huge reason that after this weekend nothing will ever be the same. Because after this weekend, my best friend is going to know I'm in love with her boyfriend.

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LAUREN BARNHOLDT
is the author of the teen novels
The Thing About the Truth
,
Sometimes It Happens
,
One Night That Changes Everything
,
Two-way Street
,
Right of Way
, and
Watch Me
. She is also the author of the middle grade novels
The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney
,
Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better
,
Four Truths and a Lie
,
Rules for Secret Keeping
,
Fake Me a Match
, and the Girl Meets Ghost series. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Visit her online at
www.laurenbarnholdt.com
.

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The Thing About the Truth

Sometimes It Happens

One Night That Changes Everything

Two-way Street

Right of Way

Watch Me

The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney

Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better

Four Truths and a Lie

Rules for Secret Keeping

Fake Me a Match

Girl Meets Ghost

The Harder the Fall

Ghost of a Chance

Heat of the Moment

One Moment in Time

From This Moment

Cover art © 2015 by GS/Gallery Stock

Cover design by Annemieke Beemster Leverenz

HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

ONE MOMENT IN TIME
. Copyright © 2015 by Lauren Barnholdt. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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