All Chapters of She's No Beauty Queen: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Lily looked at Mark wide-eyed, unable to hold back her excitement. “No way! Can you do a heelflip 720?”He couldn’t help but laugh at her enthusiasm. “Yeah. I could show you sometime if you want.”He immediately wished he could take that back. She wouldn’t want to spend time with him that she didn’t absolutely have to. She obviously hadn’t even wanted him to come over when her friend offered for him to play a game with them.To his surprise her enthusiasm didn’t lessen in the slightest. “Really? No one has ever been able to show me that move! Can you teach it to me? Can you?”“I can try.”Mark was in a state of absolute disbelief by this point but he wasn’t about to say no. This might be the one chance he had of getting her bad impression of him to change. He would rest a lot easier knowing Lily Bennett didn’t hate him and he wasn’t entirely sure why.“Awesome, thanks!” she replied with a bright smile.He was inexplicably affected by it because she had never once smiled at him like th

Angelina stood there awkwardly rubbing her arm in a self-soothing gesture. Eddie said they could get her a ring but didn’t seem particularly happy about it. Was he still upset with her?She wasn’t sure what she could do to make him feel better. She felt horribly guilty about everything that happened when they were in San Diego and then yesterday when she mortified herself by coming onto him.She didn’t want him to be upset though, especially since he had seemed so happy before that mess happened. To be that affected he truly did love her. And she wasn’t able to reciprocate properly even though she cared about him more than anyone aside from Aria.Her head was too much of a mess to even sort through any potential feelings. She needed time to figure things out. The real question was how much.Leaving Eddie hanging forever wouldn’t be fair. He had laid his feelings for her bare and what had she done with them? Said something nasty that got him feeling all insecure again after things were

Lily internally cursed herself for letting her desire to learn a cool skateboard trick win out over her desire to stay away from Mark Hanover. Why had she done that? How stupid could she get? She was trying to avoid him for crying out loud!But she had to admit that she had seen an entirely different side of him at the bowling alley. Every other time she saw him (aside from Angel’s birthday) had been in a work context. It seemed that when he wasn’t at work he wore jeans and t-shirts like anybody else. And here she had thought that he wore suits like they were his second skin.Both times she saw him outside of work his hair was styled more casually too. She also noticed that his bowling shoes were different than the kind you could rent at the alley. That meant he truly was a dedicated bowler; he had bought a pair for himself instead of continuing to rent them.Being a dedicated bowler was surprising enough but then she found out he was a dedicated skateboarder as well. That didn’t fit

Lily slept well on the hotel’s rather excellent mattress and met up with Eddie and Aria for breakfast downstairs before heading back up to change into her swimsuit. She was grateful she thought to bring it just in case or she would be out of luck.It was a black and blue one-piece patterned with sticks and leaves. She had never been a fan of two-piece swimsuits because they were a lot more likely to make her get catcalled and she hated that.Aria wore a pink one-piece covered in pineapples that also happened to have a tutu and a pair of darker pink arm floaties. She looked absolutely adorable! Lily couldn’t help but coo over how cute she was and the little girl soaked up the affection with a bunch of giggles.She took turns swimming back and forth between the two adults. Eddie would throw her up into the air and catch her while Lily would play this game Emma used to love called ‘motorboat.’It involved slowly spinning a child around in circles while saying a specific ditty in a sing-s

Edward had been fairly miserable the past few weeks following his fight with Angel. Even after she told him she didn’t mean what she said the sting from those words wouldn’t go away.He got her an engagement ring she hadn’t even been able to bring on this trip and took her on a couple of dates other than the aquarium but it all felt futile. If she won the pageant she had been training for her entire life, she was going to leave him for a year and whatever progress they were trying to make would disappear.He loved and hated being around her at the same time because he knew she didn’t actually want him. Having her half-heartedly was somehow both better and worse than not having her at all.Hanging out with Lily in the pool this morning was especially difficult to see because she looked exactly like her and had been playing around with Aria a lot like Angel usually did. What was he going to tell their daughter if she had to leave for an entire year? She would miss so much more than she