The Trouble With Flirting (25 page)

My heart skids to a halt, then races even faster. “Did you just say you love me?”

“Um …” Adam looks startled. “I guess I did.”

My smile is practically taking over my whole face. “So smooth the way you just snuck that in there,” I tease.

His ears are red, but he’s laughing. “That’s me. I’ve got all the smooth moves.”

“I know.” I pull him closer and skim my lips along his neck until I reach his ear. “I love you too.”

THE END

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Music References

If you’d like to look up and listen to any of the music Adam and Livi played and/or listened to in this book, here are the composers and titles of the various pieces. For a list of YouTube links, visit
Livi’s Playlist
online.

CHAPTER SIX

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, II. Adagio cantabile (“Sonata Pathétique”)

Brahms: Waltz No. 15

Dvořák: Humoresque No. 7

Chopin: Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat Major

Chopin: Waltzes, Op. 64: No. 1 in D-flat Major (
“
Minute Waltz
”
)

Chopin: Impromptu No. 4 in C-sharp Minor (
“
Fantaisie-Impromptu
”
)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1 - 3

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Bach: Suite No. 3 in D Major, II. Air (“Air on the G String”)

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

The Piano Guys: The Mission / How Great Thou Art

South Africanisms

I’m not sure how universally used these words are, so if you haven
’
t come across them before, here
’
s what they mean:

digs
– (informal) lodgings. In student lingo, this generally means a house shared by several students.

matric
– Grade 12, the last year of high school.

Livi’s Photo Journal

View
Livi’s photo journal
online.

Dear Reader

Thank you for reading
The Trouble with Flirting
! Whether you liked it, didn’t like it, or just want to tell me what your favourite superhero movie is, I’d love to know your thoughts. Please leave a review
somewhere online
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Thank you!

Author’s Note

If you’re planning a trip to Cape Town in the hopes of visiting
The Banana Pearl
or
Jazzy Beanbag
, I’
m afraid I have to disappoint you. Those places exist only in the pages of this book
. However, UCT, Clifton 4
^th
Beach, and Rhodes Memorial are entirely real, and if you
’ve got a 
Cape Town holiday coming up, perhaps you should add them to your list of places to visit!

After a stupid miscommunication, everyone in Andi’s new res thinks she’s secretly dating Damien, boyfriend of resident queen bee Charlotte. Since the rumor’s already out there and refuses to be squashed, Andi and Damien decide to keep up the facade in the hopes of snagging the attention of the people they really want to be with. What could possibly go wrong?

Look out for

THE TROUBLE WITH FAKING

coming in October 2014!

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Acknowledgements

Here I am, trying to find the words to thank God for getting me to the end of another story, and all I can hear in my head are the words of
The Butterfly Song
. So thank you, Father, for making me
me
!

Thank you to the following people who helped make
The Trouble with Flirting
the story it is:

Mariska, for letting me use your gap year abroad as inspiration for Livi’s backstory.

Rashmi, for reminding me how to play a violin.

Jasper, for the Afrikaans band names (
that
was fun!).

Tim, Nicola, Gavin, and Marcio, for the pick-up lines (that was even
more
fun!).

And Kyle, for being the inspiration for every happy ending I write.

Lastly, thank you to
you
, dear reader. I had so much fun writing Livi's story, and I hope you had fun reading it.

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An A to Z of Creepy Hollow Fae

The Faerie Guardian

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Forgiven (A Trouble Novella)

The Trouble with Flying

The Trouble with Flirting

The Trouble with Faking

The Trouble with Falling