30 Days of No Gossip by Stephanie Faris

Author:Stephanie Faris
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Social Issues, Humorous Stories, Girls & Women, Juvenile Fiction, General, Friendship
ISBN: 9781442482838
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-03-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

I SAW MISS GOLDEN AGAIN first thing the next morning. Okay, so I actually kind of chased her down, following her from her car in the visitors’ lot to the teachers’ lounge, where I saw her standing outside, waiting for someone to let her in.

“Maddie Evans!”

I was so surprised that she remembered both my first and last names, I skidded to a stop several feet away from her. Maybe I’d told her Monday in Mr. Shelly’s office, but someone like Miss Golden was so busy, I wouldn’t expect her to remember something like my name.

“Hi, Miss Golden,” I said.

“Please,” she waved away my words. “Call me Ashley. ‘Miss Golden’ makes me feel old.”

“Okay,” I said. Although I doubted I’d ever be comfortable calling her by her first name. “Are you here to see one of the teachers?”

I knew I was being nosy, but I didn’t think it was against the rules to be nosy. Just to tell other people what I heard.

“I thought I’d pop my head in,” she answered. “Is anyone in there?”

I looked at the closed door. I didn’t know anything about what went on behind that door. The teachers’ lounge was top secret in this school.

“You know what?” Miss Golden said suddenly. “Never mind. I’d rather walk with you. Why don’t you show me around?”

That threw me off for a moment. She’d walk around school with me? Being seen with her was sure to make people ask me questions later. Questions like, Who was that woman? What was she doing here? Questions I couldn’t answer without starting rumors.

But what else could I say? I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like this. I started toward the gym, where all the torture happened. Luckily, there weren’t enough people around yet that it made a scene. Miss Golden probably knew that.

“What’s this hallway?” she asked as we passed the language arts area. That was one of the worst hallways, with some kind of strange stuffing hanging from the ceiling and a couple of the tiles missing altogether. The floors were a weird yellowish shade that looked like paper after it had been around a long, long time.

But instead of avoiding it, Miss Golden took a sharp left turn into the Hallway of Yuck. She was squinting up at the ceiling, reminding me why she was here. Miss Golden saw this as a great opportunity, while most of us looked at it as hopeless.

“Do you have classes down here?” Miss Golden asked.

I nodded, pointing at my second-period classroom. To be honest, I never paid much attention to this hallway after my first couple of days of school. It was just something I went through to get to class.

“This is uninhabitable,” Miss Golden said, looking around. Her mouth was hanging open and her eyes were wide. “Kids can’t learn in a place like this.”

I might not know what “uninhabitable” meant, but I knew that last part. I figured it was a good sign. I mean, if she’d walked around the school

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