A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner

Author:Emily Horner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Teenage romance, Performing Arts, Young adult fiction, Teenage girls, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Best friends, Realistic fiction, Lesbian, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Love & Romance, Theater, Sexual orientation, Bicycle touring, Lesbian teenagers, Fatal traffic accidents, Lesbians, Friendship, Love, General, Homosexuality, Musicals, Love stories
ISBN: 9780803734203
Publisher: Dial
Published: 2010-06-10T18:13:46+00:00

Heather was the last of us to show up at 218, half running with her book bag hanging open. “My eighth period is way on the other end of school. In a trailer. Which, by the way, does not have air-conditioning,” she explained, and I didn’t want to admit to worrying about whether she was going to show up.

Mr. Vaichon glanced up when we filed in. We came in together, all of us, and he didn’t look surprised to see us. “I’m sorry to hear about your ninja thing,” he said. “I talked to the principal about it, but I didn’t manage to change his mind. If there was anything else I could do—”

“Oh, there is,” Heather said brightly.

“The thing is,” Lissa said, “we want to volunteer to work on Our Town.”

“That sounds suspiciously like a non sequitur.”

We laid out our plan, piece by piece: We really would help out on Our Town and do whatever had to be done. But at the same time, we’d be moving our own props and costumes into the school, and working on our lighting and our sets. Our Town wasn’t until Thanksgiving—that left most of September and October and almost all of November—so we had plenty of time for both.

“How does the performance fit?” he asked.

“Just have them leave the school open late, like when you’re doing dress rehearsals. We’ll take care of the rest. And they’re going to shut us down after the first night anyway, so there’s no point worrying about a full run.”

“I can’t imagine why this doesn’t sound like a good idea.”

“We don’t want to get anyone in trouble,” I said. “But—”

“That’s exactly what’s going to happen. I’m not going to lie and say I had no idea what was going on.”

“Then just say that you’re striking a blow for the first amendment,” Jon said. “What if you were told you couldn’t put on Shakespeare because of the bawdy jokes, or Arthur Miller because of the implied social critique? You wouldn’t stand for it, would you?”

“No. But you aren’t Shakespeare.”

“It’s not just a play about ninjas!” Amy protested. “It has love and war and death and secrets and betrayals. Seriously. It’s just like Shakespeare.”

Ollie had been hanging back till now, with his head down, and his hair flopping in front of his face. Now he slid off the desk he’d been sitting on. “If Julia had lived to be thirty, she’d have been writing the musicals that people will pay a couple hundred dollars to go see. The ones people want to see eight or nine times in a row. That’s not going to happen now. So the most we can do for her is to stage Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad in a high school auditorium where it’ll be seen by our parents and her parents and a few dozen nerds. We have to do at least that. Otherwise—it’ll be like this thing she cared so much about never mattered at all.”

“And why, again, did she have to write a musical about violent, ruthless killers?” Mr.

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