Being Emily (Anniversary Edition) by Rachel Gold

Author:Rachel Gold [Gold, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594935985
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

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The next morning on my way to study hall, Claire handed me a note. It said: “Overnight in the city. Set it up with your folks. Have them call Nat’s mom tonight. She’ll handle the ‘boy thing.’”

What boy thing? I thought, but that was answered as soon as I got home and broached the subject with my mom.

“You can’t have a sleepover with two girls in the city—one of whom we don’t even know!” she said.

“Oh, yeah, you’re supposed to call her mother.” I handed Mom a sheet of paper with Natalie’s home number on it.

“How do you even know this girl?” Mom asked.

“We met online. She plays the same games that Claire and I do. We’ve hung out with her a few times. Her mom’s a successful lawyer.” The part about games wasn’t true, but that last bit was the important part. It was meant to convey a sense of safety to my mother and a sense that I was spending time with the right kind of people.

Mom sighed and went to the phone. The conversation went: “Hello? Yes. Yes, Chris’s mom. Good to meet you too, Susan. Online games, he said. Well, I wonder that too.” Pause and a laugh. “Really? Oh separate rooms, of course. A daughter in college, that’s nice. Princeton? My goodness. And you’ll be there all night with them?” Pause and laugh again. “Oh no, no that’s not necessary. Yes, that would be nice. Yes, thank you. Goodbye.”

She hung up and turned to me. “Well, I suppose it’s all right. They sound like very nice people. She said you’ll have your own room for the night. She even offered to drive out here so we could meet her. Isn’t that nice?”

“Yeah,” I said, thinking that Natalie’s mom had to be fantastic to make that offer.

“Go have a good time,” she said. “And tell me all about it. I bet they have a wonderful house.”

I smiled. “Okay, Mom.”

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