Club Girl by Evelyn Glass Read Free Book Online

go there and register and get their books, but this will give you a fair amount of idea regarding the costs you will have to bear and the books and support the NGO can provide. Twice a year, you will be required to appear for some tests. They will guide you.”
     
    Overwhelmed, she stared at the folder. He actually went to the trouble of getting it for her? No one ever did something so unselfish for her before. “Thank you.” She cleared her throat. “I will visit them tomorrow.”
     
    “If you need help with coursework, I could sit with you. And I think some of the other guys might also pitch in. Sure, they look as if they never saw the inside of a high school, but many of them have degrees under their belt,” he added.
     
    “That would be awesome.” She fingers the folder, not sure if she could adequately express all that simmered in her heart. “Nick...”
     
    “You don’t need to say anything, Gabby. It would please me if you succeeded and did this. Everyone should get a chance to make something of themselves. This is your opportunity and you need to grab it.”
     
    “I will,” she said in a fervent tone. “I will.”
     
    “Good. I look forward to seeing the day when you graduate.”
     
    His smile took her breath away. He meant every word. She could see the sincerity in his eyes. “You’re a great guy, Nick.”
     
    “Yeah, I am.” He laughed. “And don’t you forget it.”
     
    His laughter was infectious. Having never experienced a friendship that existed on the basis of mutual respect and trust, she didn’t know if she could accept it. But he didn’t want anything from her, not at least for the help he was giving her.
     
    He was attracted to her, no doubt about that. But then, he could just as easily ask her to sleep with him, and she would oblige as she would to all the other guys. He didn’t need to do this.
     
    But the fact that he did so made her heart flutter with hope.
     
    Gabby had never known that a man could be interested in her in any other way than just for her body. Nick Parker was just another man, someone she thought she would have to cross off her list at some point or another, but he was giving her a tantalizing glimpse of something that was so much better than the life she experienced on a daily basis.
     
    Sure, he was no saint.
     
    But he was pretty damn remarkable.
     
    “I guess I will see you around,” she said.
     
    He didn’t make a move to leave. The clubhouse was empty expect for the two of them. Around this time, people usually thronged the place but last night’s party probably drained the lot of them. They would be back, looking for a good time or just a normal chitchat tomorrow, but for now this place was hers and his.
     
    Gabby wondered if she should make a move and ask him to join her upstairs. Maybe he was waiting for her to show interest.
     
    Or perhaps she should leave things as they were.
     
    She didn’t need complications in her life, and Nick Parker certainly constituted as one.
     
    “Would you like to go to the harbor with me tomorrow?”
     
    “Huh?”
     
    He raised an eyebrow. “It’s not such a difficult question. We could stroll around. I don’t think you have seen it at night. It’s pretty amazing. We get these ships that stay out in the ocean but at night you can see their lights all the way in. And there are some good restaurants over there. We could grab a bite to eat.”
     
    He wanted to take her out for a walk and dinner? Gabby couldn’t believe it. Was he actually asking her out on a date?
     
    A date?
     
    She didn’t recall a single instant when someone asked her out on a garden-variety, ordinary date.
     
    “Dinner?”
     
    “You got to eat. So do I. We could do it together.” His tone was causal, easy, but he was serious.
     
    What the hell was one supposed to say when she was asked out? She’d skipped all this. Gabby never got a chance to be a normal teenager, to be just a girl who waited for a boy who would