Category: Young Adult/Teen Type: Fiction
Pages: 92
Copyright: 2008
Just when he thought his summer was ruined, Reggie McCaffrey found something he wasn't expecting, but not without some minor complications...
By his own account, Reggie McCaffrey was a failure. Coming back from a short stint as a reporter in a small Ohio town, he returned to Forest State University in the summer of 2000, taking up his old post as Sports Editor of the student newspaper, the Forester, in hopes of finding his self-respect, and perhaps the attention of the new News Editor, Brenda Alvarez...
Dilemma is a light-hearted peek into the lives of college journalists, where pop-bottle golf and trips to the club, at least in the eyes of the Forester staff, are standard operating procedure.
Excerpt
Reggie didn’t really care. Jim had committed a crime by failing to divulge the fact that despite his intuition, Brenda was already spoken for. The scowl Reggie wore on his face was all that his best friend needed to see to realize that Jim had to pay.
“So, did you at least figure out who this guy is?” Marcus asked.
Reggie then went into the information Jim had given to him behind the door of his office, fearing that more projectiles would be hurled his way. Brenda met her boyfriend Oscar Minaya while they were in high school. Oscar was a starting forward on the soccer team, while Brenda, of course, was editor of the school paper.
When they graduated, the two seemingly went their separate ways. Brenda attended Forest State, and Oscar was accepted to Ohio State on an academic scholarship. She had only mentioned her boyfriend once while at the Forester her freshman year and that was in October. Jim figured that the long distance had taken its toll and that the two were no longer together.
Coupled with her ongoing fascination with Reggie, Jim came to the conclusion that Brenda had a new object of affection. This was further facilitated, as Jim thought, by Reggie’s return to campus. Only was it earlier in the day that Jim came to realize, just as Reggie had, that Brenda and Oscar were still very much together.
“I guess this means that you’re going to have to find someone else to have a summer fling with?” Marcus said at the conclusion of Reggie’s story.
“Hell no, I’m still going after Brenda,” Reggie declared. “That guy she’s with is temporary. Besides, how long do you really think that this long-distance thing is going to last after she spends some quality time with me?”
“You say that like that’s a good thing,” Marcus joked, prompting Reggie to throw him out of the store.
While he spent his previous work shift fantasizing about Brenda, Reggie spent this shift thinking up ways to snatch her out of Oscar’s hands. His plans, of course, centered around two questions: How serious were they still and how much did Brenda know about Reggie’s feelings?
If he needed any doubt as to the latter question, it was all erased near the end of his shift, when Brenda came walking through the door.
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