More Flirting Games (The Flirting Series - Young Adult) by Stella Wilkinson

away.
    Sophie
looked stunned. “Who on Earth?” She started. Rose leaned forward, plucked a
small envelope from the cellophane wrapping and held it out. Sophie took it and
slid it open. The simple card inside read:

Forgive me? Jack x
    Grace
frowned but Rose laughed at the dumfounded look on Sophie’s face.
    “You told
him didn’t you!” Sophie accused. “You must have told him they were my favorite
flowers? When? How? What did he say?” She gabbled totally thrown by the
development.
    Rose
nodded. “He rang me a couple of days ago. He told me everything, by the way.
How could you not have told me that the two of you hooked up?”
    “Well,
hello pot, this is the kettle calling.” Sophie nodded towards Leo.
    Rose
laughed. “Yeah, ok fair enough, I should have told you about Leo, but you
should have told me about Jack months and months ago! I gave him a proper
dressing down.”
    “So he sent
these because he feels guilty?” Sophie felt the wind go out of her sails.
    Rose shook
her head. “I don’t think so. He was already planning it when he rang me, he
just rang to ask about what flowers to send. But I hope you’re going to tell
him to get lost anyway? I told him I was going to advise you to totally ignore
him.”
    Grace
nodded in agreement. “See, isn’t that just what I said, Soph? Don’t let him get
under your defenses, he doesn’t deserve another chance.”
    Sophie
looked depressed. “He doesn’t actually say he wants another chance, only to
forgive him. That’s not exactly flirtatious or expecting anything is it?”
    Rose leaned
forward and put her hand on Sophie’s knee. “Seriously Soph, I think he’s been a
total prat. He doesn’t deserve you. You’ve got to move on and focus on someone
else. Jack isn’t the boyfriend type, he’s probably sleeping with loads of girls
at Uni. Don’t let him use you again, promise me?”
    “I totally
agree. You are absolutely not allowed to call him. I will personally take away
your phone and sit on you if you are remotely tempted.” Grace said forcefully.
    “Thanks.”
Sophie said sadly. “You’re good friends. I do know that he’ll only hurt
me, I just like him soo much!”
    “Jack’s
selfish, he never considers other peoples feelings.” Alex chimed in with
surprising anger. “On the other hand, I’ve never known him to send flowers
before.”
    Sophie
stroked a petal. It was just so thoughtful to ring and ask Rose what flowers
she would like best. Especially as he must have known Rose would give him a roasting.
But her friends were right. She had to ignore his gesture. No good could come
of it.
    ***
    The whole
school seemed griped with Valentine’s Day fever. The fact it had fallen on a
Saturday this year meant that the school had actually agreed to a Valentine’s
disco and everyone was a bit over excited. First, second and third year pupils
had the Main Hall from six until eight pm, then years four and over had the
room from eight until ten pm. Most of the older kids wouldn’t even make an
appearance until around nine.
    Ellie
Parkhurst and Flora Kincaid were in Year Four, but Ellie’s boyfriend, Nate, was
in Year Six, so they were planning to show up late. It was a great relief to
them that they had been bunched in with the Upper School, which usually only
included years five to seven.
    Ellie was
hugely enjoying getting ready for the disco, but Flora was a bundle of nerves.
Flora was madly in love with Ellie’s boyfriend’s best friend, Gabriel Brenner.
The trouble was that there were a lot of reasons why Gabriel would never notice
her. Gabriel was two years older than Flora, he was by far the most handsome
boy in the whole school, he already had a girlfriend who was a model and not a
schoolgirl, and he was damn elusive and unfriendly!
    Ellie had
done her best to help Flora to get Gabriel to notice her. She had badgered Nate
into arranging things that the four of them could do together, but Nate was not
keen on being helpful. He claimed