Chat Room by Kristen Butcher

Author:Kristen Butcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2006-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

chapter eight

When the girl went to give me back my stuffy, I told her to keep it. What did it matter now? Everyone in the gym had seen her waving it around. Including Cyrano. No doubt he thought she was Roxane.

This was not how things were supposed to work out. Cyrano was supposed to wear a striped shirt, and I was supposed to pick him out of the crowd. Then when I waved my little stuffed tiger, he was supposed to pick me out of the crowd. After that we would start talking. Things would go from there. It might not be Cinderella and Prince Charming but it was a start.

Yeah, right! Some start. I was no closer to knowing who Cyrano was than I had been a week ago. And he didn’t know who I was either.

Even worse, he thought I was somebody else. Okay, maybe he didn’t think I was somebody else, but he thought Roxane was! The situation was about as messed up as it could get.

I didn’t visit the chat rooms that night. I couldn’t. Now that Cyrano had a face for Roxane, he was either going to be turned off or turned on. Either way, it was bad news for me.

If he didn’t like the look of the girl waving my toy tiger, he might ignore me in the chat room. But if he did talk to me, he would think he was talking to her. Confused identities were so romantic in the movies, but in real life they were frustrating.

I was nervous about going to school the next day. At the moment the only one who knew about the mix-up was me, but it was only a matter of time until Cyrano figured it out. Eventually he would talk to that girl, and when he did he’d put all the pieces together. Then how stupid would I look?

In the meantime I had to keep Janice from finding out, and that was not going to be easy. Janice always seemed to know when I was hiding something, and she had a nasty habit of nagging me until I spilled the beans. It didn’t usually take too long. Lying is another one of those things I’m not very good at.

I got to school early, hoping to get my books out of my locker and sneak into homeroom before Janice showed up. But—wouldn’t you know it—she was already there. And from the look of it, she was waiting for me.

I took a deep breath and tried to look natural.

“You’re here early,” I said, focusing my attention on my lock so she couldn’t read my face.

“So are you,” she replied.

“I forgot my homework last night, so I came in to do it before class,” I lied.

“You sure?” she said.

I looked over and frowned at her. “What are you talking about? Of course I’m sure.”

She shrugged. “I just thought maybe you’d snagged yourself a boyfriend and had an early morning date.”

I was stunned. What hat had she pulled that out of? If I didn’t know better, I would’ve said Janice knew what was going on.

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