Lahat ng Kabanata ng She's No Beauty Queen: Kabanata 131 - Kabanata 140

Lily had a hard time getting what Angel said about Mark when Donovan came to visit out of her head. ‘If that guy cares about anything, he cares about you.’ Was that really true?She kept an eye on him trying to figure that out for herself over the next six months and came to the conclusion that her twin was right. He did care about her but she didn’t know in what capacity. It didn’t seem like he was willing to do anything about it either way.The only reason it mattered was to satisfy her own curiosity. Not knowing had been driving her crazy!Ignoring it and allowing things to carry on as usual was her only option but she hated how much everyone teased her about it. So what if she could finally admit she liked him? It wasn’t going to go anywhere so there wasn’t a point.Lily didn’t know who had hurt him to the point of dismissing any and all attachments but she was willing to bet it had something to do with how he grew up. Not that she had a lot of information about that either. All s

Mark noticed the hurt in her voice and immediately denied it. “Lily, no! That isn’t what I meant!”“Then what did you mean?” Lily demanded. “Am I that terrible? I know I was rude before I understood you better but I already apologized about that. I think you’re a great person—I wouldn’t like you if I didn’t.”“I…I’m afraid of my feelings getting bigger and warping to the point that they turn me into something I’m not. I would rather run away from them than take that sort of risk.”“And you didn’t take mine into account at all.”She sniffed crossly and looked away but that belied how disheartened she was. He wasn’t even willing to try! What was she supposed to do about that? She didn’t want to lose him but it wasn’t like she could force him to be with her in a romantic sense or even stay friends. It might be too awkward to do that after this little confrontation.“I’m sorry,” Mark said quietly. “I wasn’t even positive you liked me until now so I didn’t think of your side of things.”Li

Angelina kept a sharp eye on Aria and Emma as they climbed all over the jungle gym and went down the slides but didn’t want to stand up to do it. She was feeling lazy today.It seemed she wasn’t the only one since a woman who hollered after a boy who might have been seven or eight not to run plopped down wearily beside her. “Mind if I sit here?”“Not at all. Was that your son?” Angelina asked conversationally.Talking to someone while she sat here would be better than sitting in silence. She couldn’t look at her phone to keep her occupied either since she was the adult supervision for two rambunctious kids.“Yeah,” the woman admitted. “Which kid is yours?”“The little blonde girl on the slide.”“She’s a cutie. Looks just like you.”Angelina smiled. “We get that a lot. It seems like she didn’t get any of my husband’s genes at all.”The woman’s eyes widened. “You’re married?! You look so young! I would have thought you were like me.”“…like you?”“An unwed mother from a teen pregnancy.

Eddie didn’t get back from his business dinner until Aria was already asleep and seemed tired but he recovered immediately when Angelina pounced on him, brimming over with an unusual amount of enthusiasm. He grinned at her.“What has you so excited?”“I think I figured out what I want to do with myself instead of being a neurologist!” she exclaimed. “I’m going to need your help though.”Eddie seemed surprised. “My help? For what?”Angelina pulled him over to the couch and sat down next to him grasping his hands in hers before beginning her explanation. “I met someone at the park today whose situation is very similar to mine and I want to help her and Genevieve accomplish their dreams.”She told him everything from the beginning after that and he listened intently until she was finished. She looked at him expectantly and he furrowed his brow.“Are you sure you want to go into business of all things? That’s pretty far removed from what you got your degree in.”Angelina nodded. “I’m not

Dating Lily truly wasn’t much different from being best friends with her. They still texted frequently, met up almost every day, and treated each other about the same as before. The main difference was physical affection.Mark knew Lily was into casual touch based on watching her with her friends and family members but it had never been directed at him this much before. It could be a bit overwhelming at times since he still felt like this whole thing was a crazy dream he was going to wake up from any minute.His heart was a stuttering wreck the first couple months but he did get used to it eventually. And to everyone’s teasing about them and how they knew it was going to happen sooner or later.He had updated his relationship status on Facebook not long after they got together because Lily did but since his Instagram account was unconnected, the skater kids didn’t know anything had changed. The two of them went to the skatepark a lot less often since she had accomplished her goal of p