Brunettes Strike Back by Kieran Scott

Author:Kieran Scott [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Humour, Romance, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780142407783
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

12

That night I got a little taste of what college might be like. Not the classes or the campus, but the getting ready in one tiny room with female roommates. Tara was off meeting with Coach Holmes before dinner, but Whitney had joined us, claiming that Chandra, Autumn and Felice were taking up too much space in their room. Now, instead, she was encroaching on our meager mirror—and with Mindy, Phoebe, Whitney and I all dressing and doing our hair at the same time, it was total chaos. Between the curling iron, the hair dryer and the flurry of clothes and shoes, it was like backstage at NYC Fashion Week. Only far less fabulous.

“Oops! Sorry!” Mindy said as she spritzed perfume right in my eye.

I gasped, inhaling a cloud of perfume. The ensuing coughing fit threw me back a few blind steps and I stumbled over Phoebe’s pink leather sandals.

“Oof!” she said as I crushed her foot under mine.

“Sorry!” I cried. I waved a hand in front of my face to clear the smog of products. “I think I need to take a breather,” I told them, blinking rapidly and smacking my tongue against the roof of my mouth in an attempt to lose the sour perfume taste. I staggered away from the mirror and toward the bed, where I sat and took a nice, long breath.

“You okay?” Whitney asked, fluffing her hair as she followed after me. She leaned in toward the mirror over the dresser and blinked her eyes a few times, checking her makeup.

“Fine,” I lied.

Time to get a grip. I was a klutz on a good day, but when the butterflies in my stomach started doing double backflips, it totally threw me off balance. First of all, I was nervous about my date with Daniel. This could finally be the night he asked me to be his girlfriend. If so, I wanted everything to go perfectly, and those are usually the times that nothing goes perfectly. So, yeah, there was that overwhelming überfear. But I was even more nervous about bailing out on dinner with the squad. What if they flipped out on me?

Yeah. Some “what if.” The question was actually how big the flip-out would be.

I smoothed the skirt of my dark blue and white Hawaiian print mini dress and glanced at the phone, willing it to ring. I had left Jordan a message over an hour ago and she had yet to call me back. Something was definitely going on with her and I wanted to talk to her about it. But I also needed her advice and a serious pep talk about tonight. After all, she was the one who had convinced me that the Daniel date was a good idea. Why wasn’t she calling me back?

Okay, all you have to do is tell Whitney or Mindy what’s going on, I told myself, taking another deep breath. They’re your friends. They’ll make an excuse for you. I was sure that at least these two would understand.

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