Against the Odds by Amy Ignatow

Author:Amy Ignatow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

As soon as the exam was over, Cookie was out of her seat and heading for the door. She was pretty certain that she did well on the Fill In Your Name section of the test and also that she did miserably bad on the Everything Else section.

“Cookie, where are you going?” Addison asked as Cookie sped past the table where she was sitting with Claire and Emma.

“Gotta go, text you later,” Cookie mumbled without looking back. As she left the cafeteria she could hear Emma blabbing on about the difficulty of the math section and how nervous she was to get the results back in two weeks. Ugh. Please. If you’re good at something, don’t pretend to be bad at it so that you look even better when oh my gosh, you did well. It irritated Cookie to no end.

“That wasn’t fun,” Martina said, falling in step next to Cookie.

“I swear, are you a cat or something? Maybe your super-special power is being a cat because you’re crazy quiet and you just show up and I can never see you coming.”

“I don’t think so,” Martina said. “Also, we have a cat and you can always see her coming, so I don’t think you know much about cats.”

“Cats are quiet and sneaky. You are quiet and sneaky. You are like a cat.” They’d reached Cookie’s locker. She opened it and started jamming her jacket into her messenger bag.

“Dinah is grossly overweight and not very sneaky. She falls down the stairs a lot. My sister thinks she looks like the poop emoji when she sits down.” Martina leaned on the locker next to Cookie’s. “Where are we going?”

“I don’t know. Anywhere. Out of here. Away from Ms. Zelle.”

“Would you like to go to Lancaster?” Martina asked.

“What? Lancaster? Why?”

“Abe wants to find his sister. He wants to find out what happened to her. Also I think he probably misses her.”

“Why does he need us to go with him?”

“Probably because we’re the only ones who won’t judge him for what he’s become.”

Someone was approaching them. Nick. “I can’t find Jay,” he said.

“He’s probably in Principal Jacobs’s office,” Martina said. “There’s nothing you can do for him now. Are you ready to go?”

Cookie raised an eyebrow. “He’s coming?”

“Of course.”

“What about Farshad?”

Martina wrinkled her brow. “He was unreceptive.”

“Surprise, surprise.” Cookie looked down the hall at the crowds that had begun to file out of the cafeteria. It was only a matter of time before she was spotted with Nick and Martina. “Okay, fine. You two go, and I’ll meet up with you.”

“We’ll be at the gym entrance parking lot,” Martina said, and started to walk away.

“Wait, why aren’t you coming with us right now?” Nick asked.

“Because she doesn’t want to be seen with us,” Martina said, looking at Cookie with strikingly light green eyes. It felt like she knew every terrible thought and feeling that Cookie had ever had. Hearing her own terrible thoughts and feelings spoken out loud hurt. And yet, as always, Martina didn’t seem particularly bothered.

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