A Spring to Remember_An Orchard Novel by Megan Atwood & Natalie Andrewson

Author:Megan Atwood & Natalie Andrewson [Atwood, Megan & Andrewson, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781481490535
Amazon: 1481490532
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Third Time’s the Charm?

Lizzie, wait up!” Sarah yelled.

With a sigh, Lizzie slowed down and waited for her friends. She was so heartbroken for Faiyaz. And so embarrassed that she’d had any part in this.

When everyone caught up to her, Sarah said, “Well, okay. That one didn’t work.” Everyone gave her a hard stare.

“I know, I know,” Sarah said. “I feel really bad about this too. But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying. We still have one more technique to try on one more couple.”

Lizzie could hardly believe her ears. After failing twice—and failing so spectacularly—she couldn’t believe Sarah would think it was a good idea to keep going. Lizzie was about to take a big breath to say what she really thought for once, when Sarah’s eyes lit up as she looked behind Lizzie. “It’s Hakeem,” she loud-whispered. “Let’s do the last technique now!”

Peter and Olive shared a look. Peter said, “Sarah, I think we’ve done enough for today.”

Lizzie breathed a sigh of relief. Finally. Finally, she wasn’t alone in this.

Olive chimed in, “I agree.”

Lizzie said, “Maybe now you could go tell your mom . . . ,” but she stopped short at the look in Sarah’s eyes.

“I can’t believe you guys are going to abandon me,” Sarah said. Lizzie couldn’t believe it, but she looked sad.

Lizzie shook her head. “We would never abandon you!” she said.

Sarah shrugged. “It feels like it. None of you knows how this feels. You have a perfect dad, Lizzie. And Peter and Olive, you have TWO perfect dads. I don’t have ANY. I’ve never cared, really—not at all. But now that I could have the sheriff as a dad . . . I really want it to happen! Lizzie, I always thought you would support me no matter what. I thought you were a good friend.”

Sarah walked away, her head drooping. Lizzie’s heart was about to break. She couldn’t believe she hadn’t thought harder about WHY Sarah wanted these schemes to work so much.

She was a bad friend.

A little voice poked at her in her misery. She quieted herself a bit and listened to it. Mr. Samson had said her feelings mattered. And something about this still didn’t seem quite right.

She really wished she had known this was how Sarah felt. But . . . messing with other people’s lives wasn’t the best way to go about getting what she wanted. Faiyaz’s face flashed in Lizzie’s mind—no, this was definitely not the right way. And wasn’t being a good friend saying things friends might not want to hear?

Her heart racing, she opened her mouth to say something, but Olive started talking. She pushed her glasses up and shifted on her feet. “I guess in an experiment, you don’t stop after a couple of tries,” she said, putting her hand on Sarah’s. Sarah gave her a grateful look.

Peter looked at Lizzie just briefly but then said, “Yeah. I guess we’d be quitters if we let a couple of fails stop us. And anyway, maybe we still have a chance to make people happy.

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