Art Girls Are Easy by Julie Klausner

Author:Julie Klausner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

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Traditionally, before breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a staff member led the girls in an introspective song or chant in the dining hall, or read an inspirational quote about creativity, individuality, or another highly regarded upper-middle-class value. Grace was meant to be secular but spiritually nourishing—Lillian toed the line between church and camp every time she advocated the practice of having campers stand in contemplation before they chowed down. But it was an important part of the Silver Springs experience nonetheless.

As it happened, Lucy was leading the dining hall in a rousing version of “Day by Day” from the musical Godspell when Indigo entered the room, sweaty, hungry, and in no mood for show tunes. She crept among her fellow campers, who belted on their feet in confident harmony, like the cast of Glee, minus the diversity.

“To see theeeeeeee more clearly! To love theeeeeee more dearly!” Lucy, who stood in the front of the room behind the standing microphone at which Lillian made morning announcements, had her eyes squinted shut and her hand up to the sky in some gross “Halle-loo!” gesture, like she was doing a drag queen’s impression of Christina Aguilera.

Indy snuck through the hordes of revelers toward her assigned table, and in the process realized she was walking directly toward Nick as well. He stood in the corner of the room next to a staff table, and made eye contact with Indy as she weaved around the other campers. And Indy, who was already starving, felt even more light-headed when she saw him. He smirked at her, but not like he was laughing at her—his eyes twinkled with a conspiratorial friendliness that seemed to say, “We both get how ridiculous this is.” But was he reacting to the song? Hearing Lucy belt the crap out of that Godspell song, for the benefit of the dinner crowd, was pretty ridiculous and over-the-top. But is that what he was smiling at? What did Nick think of Lucy, anyway?

As Lucy rounded back for the second chorus and held its final note like it was her last chance to make a sound, Indigo realized that Nick and she were still smiling together, across the room. Indy rolled her eyes as the room exploded into applause once Lucy finally finished singing, and then he broke the gaze, sarcastically clapping along with the rest of the room and putting his fingers in his mouth for a loud wolf whistle. Maybe she’d misinterpreted his chumminess with Lucy in that meeting as something more substantial. He was so hard to read.

Indigo dashed to her table and sat down with the rest of her bunk mates in time for nobody of authority to realize that she was substantially late.

“Indy Five hundred! You’re here!” exclaimed Puja. “Where have you been all our lives?”

“Working like a madwoman!” Indy replied as she reached out for the platter of panko breadcrumb–encrusted tofu slabs that one of the servers had just delivered to their table. She helped herself to two and slathered them with red sauce from a sterling-silver gravy boat.

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