Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rozett

Author:Louise Rozett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-05T21:00:00+00:00

coerce (verb): to convince using threats

(see also: another specialty of Regina’s)

13

THE VOLLEYBALL IS hurtling straight at my face, but I am powerless to do anything about it. My hands go up too high and wide, and the ball passes right through my arms and hits me on the forehead for what feels like the fifteenth time.

Mr. Cella’s shrill whistle blows.

“Don’t make me tell you again, people. Stop trying to hit your classmate! It’s not her fault you were all too dumb to know when to quit.”

I appreciate Mr. Cella’s attempt to defend me, but really, the only person who truly didn’t know when to quit on Saturday night was Stephanie, who ended up with nothing more than a hangover on Sunday and is now standing on the other side of the net on Monday morning, trying not to make eye contact with anyone, least of all me. She knows that out of everyone who was at the Amore Motel that night, I’m the one who had to pay the most for her mistake, and I’ll probably continue to pay for it for a long time to come.

I already feel like everyone in school has taken a shot at me, and it’s only second period.

Two days left before Christmas break. Two days. I don’t know if I can make it.

Why couldn’t it have been a health-class Monday? We could have been listening to Ms. Maso tell us about the dangers of drinking, and she’d be singing my praises for being responsible and telling people that they should be thanking me instead of cursing me in the halls. Instead, it’s a gym Monday. I never in a million years thought I’d rather be in health than gym. I used to love gym.

Volleyball provides my classmates with the perfect opportunity to repay me for getting them all in trouble. The great irony is that Stephanie got off easy—her mother still feels too guilty about the divorce to do anything drastic. My mother, however, has grounded me for two weeks without phone or email privileges, and put me on “probation” indefinitely. This is her way of expressing that she’s proud of me for calling 911 but mad at me for being at the hotel in the first place. She claims I’m grounded more for lying than for staying at a party with alcohol.

The bottom line is, I probably won’t be invited to any parties in the near future, so being grounded doesn’t really matter anyway. I’ll just spend Christmas break in my room, studying for the PSATs.

Mr. Cella’s whistle shrieks again. “All right, let’s go, let’s go!”

I see Richie handing Matt the ball on the other side of the net. Richie gives him a few instructions that I am sure have something to do with velocity and some specific area of my body. Matt nods seriously, as if he’d been given an extremely important mission, and winds up to serve. And then, miraculously, a voice floats across the gym.

“Rose Zarelli to the main office, please.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.