Course of Action by Bonnie Bryant

Author:Bonnie Bryant
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497653924
Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween

EIGHT

Lisa was feeling at loose ends. She stretched and yawned, glancing up from her calculus homework to check the time on the digital clock by her bed. It was almost nine-thirty, which meant that Rafe would probably be turning up at any moment—her mother had mentioned that he was coming over after his shift at the store. Lisa grimaced at the thought. Under most circumstances she would have been thrilled that her mother was finally seeing somebody. Mrs. Atwood had been bitter and depressed ever since her divorce from Lisa’s father, and Lisa knew it was doing her mother a lot of good to get out and have fun again.

But why did she have to choose Rafe? Lisa wondered. She had disliked her mother’s new boyfriend from the moment she met him, and not only because he was a good twenty years younger than Mrs. Atwood. His lazy, laid-back attitude really rubbed her the wrong way. Of course, it also hadn’t helped that she’d had no idea of his existence until the day she’d walked in on him groping her mother in the living room.

Lisa shook her head and pushed back her chair. She couldn’t stay there with Rafe coming over. She wasn’t in the mood to be polite to him tonight.

She walked briskly toward her bedroom door, then stopped, wondering where exactly she could go. If only Alex weren’t grounded, she thought, we’d be at the dance right now, having fun.

Still, she had no interest in going to the dance without her boyfriend, no matter how desperate she was to get out. Visiting Alex and Stevie was out, too, of course—their parents were being pretty strict about visitors.

Her gaze wandered to the top shelf of her bookcase, where the riding trophies and ribbons she’d won over the years were displayed. She smiled, suddenly realizing the answer to her problem was right there in front of her.

Of course, she thought. I’ll go to Pine Hollow. I haven’t checked on Prancer in a couple of days.

She knew it was a little late by stable standards—the horses would have been fed their evening meal, and Max was probably up at his house on the hill beyond the stable, helping his wife put their two daughters to bed. Red and Denise would have departed as well, driving off in Denise’s battered pickup to the apartment they shared in town.

But I’d bet a cookie that Carole’s still there, Lisa thought, giving her reflection a quick check in the mirror over her dresser before heading for the door once again. She’s been spending all her time there getting ready for the horse show. It will be good for the two of us to hang out for a while. Make sure things are back to normal between us after what happened last weekend.

Lisa had been furious with Carole when she’d learned that Carole had told Alex about what Skye had said. But she had quickly realized that it had been an accident. The two of them

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