Crazy Ex-Ghoulfriend by Angela Roquet

Author:Angela Roquet [Roquet, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: prom, peer pressure, high school, zombies, blackmail, bully, coming of age, Paranormal Romance, Romance, high school senior, senior prom
Publisher: Angela Roquet
Published: 2018-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Rumors

Chapter 14

I bought a pleated miniskirt, a silk scarf, and a chunky wooden bracelet at Missy Hart. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to wear any of it, since I was pretty sure my soul would rot out from the guilt.

After we went shopping, we stopped by Starbucks and Danielle bought us each an iced coffee. We sipped at our drinks and gossiped on the ride to my house. Danielle didn’t ask for directions. She knew from Matilda that I lived next door to Wayne.

Even through the guilt, I was so relieved that the shopping invitation hadn’t turned out to be a cruel joke. I was beaming when I came home and found my mom waiting in the living room, sitting on the couch with her arms and legs crossed.

“Chloe stopped by,” she said.

“Oh?” I stopped slurping on my latte.

“I thought you were shopping with her.” She looked down at my Missy Hart bag.

“No, I went with Danielle.”

“Danielle? Danielle Adams? Wasn’t that one of Matilda Hunt’s friends?”

“Yeah, I guess so.” I shrugged.

“Also, Chloe says that she’s going to Chicago with her parents this weekend for some big art exhibit. I thought you said you two were going to see a movie?” Crap.

“Did I say Chloe? I meant Danielle.” I chewed on the straw of my drink, hoping I didn’t look as guilty as I felt.

My mom unfolded her arms and sighed. “Are you and Chloe doing okay? She seemed tense. Do you want to talk about it?”

I rolled my eyes. “She’s just jealous that I’m making new friends.” It was a realistic enough excuse. I hoped.

“Maybe you should do something special with her, so she doesn’t feel like she’s being left behind.”

That was my mom, the Yoda of motherhood. She always had the right answer. Sometimes she felt like a June Cleaver carbon copy. I don’t think she meant to be. I’d seen pictures of her college years. She had been a wild Joan Jett groupie with choppy, blue-streaked hair. I think she had been going to school to be a psychologist, but she dropped out after she met my dad. He was finishing up an accounting internship at the bank where she had taken out a loan for a lemon of a car. They still joked about the seedy car salesman who sent her his way.

They were married in less than a year, and they had me less than a year after that. Somewhere along the way, they morphed into the typical suburban parents. They never exceeded the speed limit, they paid their taxes, and they flossed. If they had something more exciting than that going on in their lives, it was lost on me.

“That’s a good idea, Mom. I’ll think about it.” I gave her a smile and headed up to my room.

Matilda sprang out of my closet once I closed the door. “Where the hell have you been? Is that Starbucks? Is that a Missy Hart bag? Did you know that stupid art geek friend of yours stopped by? She was in your room.

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