A Girl's Life Online

Author:Katherine Tarbox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

In the morning I felt even more distraught than I had the night before. To make matters worse, my mom had bought bagels and cereal the night before for a team breakfast in our room. While it was still dark outside, the entire team filed in to eat. It was so early that no one was completely awake. But the silence, a kind of silence I hate, was caused by something more than sleepiness. Some people refer to it as an “elephant in the room.” I guess that is the best phrase to describe it. Everyone knew what had happened, and no one said a word about it.

My mom tried to start a conversation. She said, “Aren’t these bagels fresh?” or something like that. They were horrible bagels—stale and tasteless. No one answered my mother, and the tension in the room grew.

I really didn’t have any appetite, but because I was going to have to swim for so many hours, my mom forced me to eat. I took a bite out of my bagel—to make it look like I was eating—and then put it down.

When the head coach walked in, she announced that she had had a long night. Then she said that we would have a team meeting that afternoon. The “incident” was going to be discussed, and everyone would get a chance to talk about its effect on the team.

It was hard to believe she said this. Nothing had happened to the team. It had happened to me. But somehow it involved my mother, my coaches, hotel security, the police, and now even my swim team. I was the one who was directly involved, but no one seemed to notice this or care much at all about how I was feeling.

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