Love at First Click

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by Elizabeth Chandler

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I could no longer deny what the heat in my cheeks meant when I was around Flynn. I was falling for my sister's boyfriend. There's just something about Flynn. Yes, he's a tall, unbelievably gorgeous, dark-haired football player, but . . . he's also sweet and nice and super easy to talk to. It's lucky I'm the photographer for the school paper, because my camera likes Flynn almost as much as I do. Unfortunately for me, so does my sister, and there's no way I can nab Flynn with her in the picture. But could this be the real thing? I could no longer deny what the heat in my cheeks meant when I was around Flynn. I was falling for my sister's boyfriend. There's just something about Flynn. Yes, he's a tall, unbelievably gorgeous, dark-haired football player, but . . . he's also sweet and nice and super easy to talk to. It's lucky I'm the photographer for the school paper, because my camera likes Flynn almost as much as I do. Unfortunately for me, so does my sister, and there's no way I can nab Flynn with her in the picture. But could this be the real thing? Elizabeth Chandler has written picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, and young adult romances (including the popular Kissed By an Angel trilogy) under a variety of names. As Mary Claire Helldorfer, she lives in Baltimore, MD, and loves stories, cats, baseball, and Bob—not necessarily in that order. Love at First Click By HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 9780061143113 Chapter One This shot was going to be fabulous! Of course, many of the bodies in my viewfinder—all of them belonging to our high school football team—came as already, premade, just-add-flavoring fabulous. But aside from that, the sky was amazing—it looked almost painted—with the sun slicing horizontally through clouds. Muscular arms in every shade from white to dark brown shimmered with sweat. It was late August, hot and humid, a preseason practice. I knelt on the sideline, poised for a series of shots, aware that I was pushing my luck with Coach. Coach Siefert doesn't like girls, banned them from practices, and would have banned us from games if he could have. He considers "females" a major distraction; so maybe I should have been insulted that he allowed me to get as close as I did, as photographer for the school paper. Of course, I dressed in a nondistracting way. My dark, wavy hair, which falls about six inches below my shoulders, is always braided or somehow tied down. I couldn't have it blowing in front of the camera lens. And I wore the same kind of clothes to practice and games: plain shirts, khakis pants, and athletic shoes. I love dressing girly, but on the job, I'm a professional. So it seemed to me I had earned my right to kneel on the chalky sideline—okay, maybe I was edging over it just a bit—to take the perfect shot. I pressed the toggle switch on my digital, frowned, and tried again. "Oh, no! Nooo!" A drained battery. How could I have let this happen? I looked over my shoulder to see where I'd left my equipment bag. "Heads up! Heads up!" voices shouted. I heard the thunder of feet coming in my direction, but I knelt there like a lawn ornament, glaring at my equipment. Suddenly, the camera was flying over my head. My butt landed first, then I was flat on my back. I saw the sky shining directly above me between the red helmet and padded shoulders of the heap of body sprawled on top of me. The heap was breathing hard. Sandwiched between us was a football. The player on top of me casually rolled onto his back and stood up. He didn't seem to notice he'd landed on a body. All that padding, I guess, or he was just keeping the focus that Coach was always screaming about. I didn't blame him—I was focused on finding our very expensive school camera. Spotting it just behind me, I picked it up and cradled it in my hands like a baby, praying it wasn't damaged. "You okay?" Jared Wright hollered. I recognized his voice; as quarterback he called all the plays. And he regularly called my sister. "Sure," Flynn Delancy replied, tossing back the football he had just caught, grinning at the defender who had failed to bring him down. "Not you, you moron," Jared replied, and the rest of the team laughed. "Hayley," he called to me, "are you okay?" Flynn looked back and seemed surprised to see me sitting on the ground. "Oh. Sorry! Sorry, buddy," he said, taking a few steps back, extending his hand, pulling me to my feet in a single motion, like I was his teammate. Between the red of his helmet and the metal face mask, I glimpsed the famous eyes. Gray, but a gray that could turn mystical blue. Sometimes, they were the color of the night sky when it first lightens to silver; at other times, they were a stormy ocean. How would I know this from shooting sports? Hey, I do close-ups! There is nothing that grabs your audience like a tight shot. And, actually, I photograph all kinds of school activities—dances, concerts, fund-raisers, and everyday moments by the lockers. With a

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