Crushed by Orli Zuravicky

Author:Orli Zuravicky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

It’s been two days since everything went down at the Clairvoyance Café, but it feels more like half a century. I literally could not be any happier that it’s Friday.

Cecily and I are in the midst of what you could call a cold war. We’re not completely ignoring each other, but, boy, is it icy. Does it suck? Totally. But I refuse to back down. As far as I’m concerned, she’s playing right into Georgia’s hands. If she wants to choose Cheerleading and Georgia over Dance Club and her best friend, well, she’s just going to have to lady up and tell me to my face. I mean, yes, she did go out to the Spooky Soda Shoppe with them, which apparently is a “tradition” or whatever. But that doesn’t definitively mean that she’s decided to join the squad. Does it?

Or does it.

In the meantime, I have my own work to do for the Limbos, which I’ve been completely neglecting. I still need to get four people to sign up for the club—assuming Cecily is a no-go—and find a faculty advisor who has experience with this kind of thing. Maybe Ms. Keaner knows if any of the teachers used to dance, like, back in the day? I decide to go hit her up for answers before lunch. I want to ask her for the list of acts from the Winter Wonderland talent show, anyway, like Mia suggested. And it’s not as if I’m itching to go to lunch and sit in awkward silence with Cecily, Georgia, and Colin right now.

Not a chance.

The bell rings, and it’s time to go to my first-period class. When I close my locker door, Colin is standing behind it.

“Truce?” he says, holding out his hand to shake mine. He’s smiling again and his dimple is showing, so I’m pretty sure he’s trying to be flirty.

So not working.

“A truce suggests that we’re fighting,” I say, walking in the direction of my first class, Beginner’s Telekinesis. “I’m not fighting with you. I just don’t like the way you treated me.”

Colin follows me.

“Okay, in all seriousness, I’m sorry. I guess I still get kind of tangled up in Georgia’s stuff sometimes. I’m so used to saying yes to her that I forget, you know, to say no, or whatever.”

“So I’m supposed to just accept that you’re wired to let Georgia’s needs come first, and do whatever she wants?”

“No, that’s not what I mean. I just mean … it’s hard to stop, like, a habit.”

“Yeah, well, habits are a lot harder to break when you don’t know if you really want to break them.”

“What does that mean?”

Brrrrring! Brrrrring! Second first-period bell.

“You should go. You’re going to be late,” I tell him, walking into my class.

The rest of the morning scrolls by in blurry slow motion, like an old movie. When the lunch bell finally rings I head straight to Ms. Keaner’s office.

“Oh, hello, Lucy!” she says, noticing me right away. “How are you?”

“I’m okay,” I reply. “Do you have a minute?”

“Of course! As a matter of fact I was just going to summon you.

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