Among Friends by Caroline B. Cooney

Author:Caroline B. Cooney [Cooney, Caroline B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-81892-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Skiing makes me hot and sweaty, but the laughter of friends made me warm.

They took me back. The Awesome Threesome existed again. Laughing, jostling, slipping, sliding.

Friends, I thought joyously. We’re friends again. After a whole day of thin ice (under the skis and in our conversations) a whole day of feeling as if Emily and Hill were my parole officers—oh, how I loved it! Lying on the rug like old times, Mrs. Lang supervising the fun as if we were still little kids cutting out construction paper.

But in the end I blew it.

I wrote down what I really wanted for my resolutions. When will I learn that nobody on this earth wants honesty?

Only ten minutes after I made it, my first resolution failed. “But you weren’t serious about wanting the Awesome Threesome to exist anyhow,” said Hillary viciously. “And you’d never be serious about being third, Jennie Quint.” Hillary flicked the white index card toward me. It twisted once in the air and fell on the rug by my fingers. “Show-off,” said Hillary, in a thin, angry voice.

I choked on the tears, fighting them, almost hitting my eyes with my fists to stop them. “I am not a show-off! I just—I’m only—”

But I did not know what to say next. If we took an exam, and I scored lower, I could safely say, “I’m worse than you are.” But it’s never all right to say, “I’m better than you are.”

Emily rolled over until she was lying next to Hillary, and I was alone on the far side of the room.

The resolutions literally lay between us.

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