Autumn's Wish by Bella Thorne

Author:Bella Thorne
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

I wake up two seconds later.

Okay, it’s six hours later, but it feels like two seconds. I’m crazy tired, but I roll out of bed, stuff myself into drawstring shorts and an old T-shirt, twist my rumpled hair into a messy low bun, and schlump my way downstairs. I have to shield my eyes from the bright streak of my mom. She zips around the kitchen in a blazing-yellow dress. Her makeup’s already done, her hair hangs in loose curls, and she floats around the kitchen like a cartoon princess singing with woodland creatures.

“You’re sunny today,” I say. “What’s up?”

“Everything!” she chirps as she hands me a mug of pumpkin tea latte. “I have two wonderful kids, two wonderful branches of Catches Falls, and it’s a gorgeous day today. Here.” She opens the toaster oven, wraps a pumpkin pie Pop-Tart in a napkin, and hands it to me. “We should get going if you need to be at the gym by ten.”

I’m glad she remembered. I’d much rather get a ride than zombie-walk. Still, she’s awfully dressed up just to drive me to school. And she’s feeding me a lot of pumpkin stuff. I look suspiciously at my mug and Pop-Tart, then try to sound casual. “So your Trader Joe’s friend…the pumpkin guy…”

“Pumpkin guy?”

I grimace. Am I crazy, or is her voice oddly high-pitched right now?

“Yeah,” I say. “What was his name? Len? Ben?”

“Oh, Glen!” she says, still whizzing around the room and wiping down counters.

“Right. Glen. Did you ever end up meeting him for that coffee?”

“We did,” Mom says. “It was nice. It’s always good to make a new friend. You ready?”

I raise an eyebrow, waiting for her to elaborate, but she doesn’t. I want to ask if she’s seeing him today, if that’s why she’s so dressed up, but I don’t bother. I’ll deal with her and Glen, but today I have other futures to mold.

The sisterhood of the Senior Social Committee spends the whole day transforming the gym into a spooky paradise. Lots of spiderwebs, colored lights, black lights, fog machines, Japanese lanterns shaped like jack-o’-lanterns, and actual insanely creepy jack-o’-lanterns that Swoozie Lyman—who is apparently a genius artist—carved over the past week. It’ll all look a million times better at night, but it still comes together really well, and I have so much fun with everyone that I quickly forget how tired I am. There’s only one hellish moment when I pass too close to Carrie and Kassie while they’re speaking in low voices to one another, and I hear Carrie say, “We just made it out of sight before his parents walked in. I swear, if they had walked in one second earlier…”

She doesn’t finish the sentence, just raises her eyebrows meaningfully. From that moment on, I’m tortured by an endless stream of way-too-vivid visions of what those raised eyebrows didn’t say.

At four in the afternoon, the sisterhood takes off so we can get dressed and ready. We’re supposed to come back at seven—an hour

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