Boy Trouble by Sheryl Berk & Carrie Berk

Author:Sheryl Berk & Carrie Berk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: little bee books
Published: 2019-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Principal Bates was standing in the back of the cafeteria watching Emma at work.

“That was very impressive,” she told her student. “I take it you’re trying to help your friends get through their Sadie Hawkins Dance dramas?”

“I may be solving a few problems,” Emma admitted. “I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you the whole story. I just wanted to help them.”

“I understand,” Ms. Bates said.

Emma was surprised her principal wasn’t sending her straight to detention for lying. “You do?”

Her principal sighed. “‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’”

“You can say that again!” Emma took a seat next to her at a cafeteria table.

“I didn’t say it. Shakespeare did. But he knew a few things about how difficult it is to find someone you truly care about who feels the same way about you.”

Emma assumed she must have been alluding to her on-again, off-again relationship with Jax, until she noticed the sad look on her principal’s face.

“Ms. Bates, do you have a date for the Sadie Hawkins Dance?” Emma asked gently.

Ms. Bates chuckled. “Faculty do not bring dates to school dances. We have all of you students and the school to worry about. Trust me, it keeps us all very busy. But thank you for your concern, Emma, and good job today with your ‘history lesson.’”

She walked back to her office and Emma couldn’t help but feel bad for her. Ms. Bates seemed lonely!

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