Blog Tour: Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone

Character Guest Post: Emma Atkins (Anna’s best friend)

Want to hear a secret? Come here. 

Oh, please... I don't bite, closer. Anna hates it when I talk about people behind their backs, and since this little anecdote is about her, I'm pretty sure she'd call my behavior "inexcusable" and stop talking to me or something.

Okay, here goes: If you'd told me three years ago that Anna Greene was going to turn out to be my best friend, I never would have believed you. Seriously. Never. 

I remember the day we met. It was the near the end of the first day of school freshman year, and I was walking The Donut when I spotted her fumbling with the latch in her locker. Tallish. Gangly legs. Hair? Out to here. And wearing that horrible Westlake jumper. I thought I should be nice and politely inform her that no one ever wears the jumper. No one. Ever.

So I walked up to her and introduced myself. But before I could tell her the bit about the jumper, she smiled and reached out to shake my hand. She had a nice smile, the sort that makes you smile along without realizing you’re doing so. I can’t remember what she said exactly, but I remember that she made me laugh right away. She didn't seem to be that impressed by my keen sense of style or taken by my accent, and I liked her immediately.

And just like that, I was inviting her over after school.

Frankly, the more we talked that day, the more I realized how little we had in common. She didn't care much about clothes and makeup and I would never in a million years run through mud and hurdle logs “just for the fun of it”. But then we started talking music and neither one of us could shut up. Turns out, she knew the owner of the record store in town so we headed over there and spent the day wandering through the aisles and looking through the wooden bins of CDs. She made me buy the Gin Blossoms and I made her buy the new Screaming Trees. We’ve been best friends ever since.

It's odd, but I occasionally feel this intense need to protect her. And not because she’s weak or anything—on the contrary, she's one of the strongest people I've ever known—but sometimes the instinct kicks in and I can't seem to stop myself. Ever since this guy, Bennett, came to town, I've felt it more than usual.

Bennett. At first I thought he was a creepy stalker, but now that I've gotten to know him better, I admit, he's growing on me. Still, I can't shake the fact that there's something off about him. Like he’s hiding something.

But Anna’s never been happier, and best friends are supposed to support each other, right? So yes, it makes me feel like a bit of a prat that I'm not one hundred percent behind this relationship.

Still, I can't help but think this isn’t going to end well.

Time Between Us Blurb

Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett’s unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna’s life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility. As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate—and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.

Author Bio

Blissfully married. Occasional superhero in the eyes of two remarkable small people. Animal lover. Avid reader. Gadget freak. Music addict. Dreadful cook. Happily stuck in the mid-90s. I write young adult fiction about fun stuff like travel, music, romance, and normal people with extraordinary talents.

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