Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better by Lauren Barnholdt

Author:Lauren Barnholdt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2009-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

“Look, you’re going to have to do it sometime,” Lexi says to Mel.

“That’s not true!” Mel says. “I can definitely decide not to do it ever. Ever in my life.” She looks a little green. Although it could be the shirt she’s wearing, a yellow, long-sleeved T-shirt that says “Peace” in bubbly black letters. I keep telling her not to wear yellow with her skin tone, but does she listen to me? Nooo. Of course, it could also be the lighting here, too. The hallway at school is very unforgiving and does not do anything for anyone’s complexion. Well, except Bailey Barelli. Her skin always looks flawless.

“Ohmigod, here he comes,” I say, and turn back toward Lexi’s locker. It’s between second and third period on Monday, and Lexi is trying to convince Mel she needs to ask Dylan to the dance. But Mel is resisting. We all hold our breaths as Dylan walks by, and I pretend to be talking about something inside Lexi’s locker.

“So that’s what your mirror looks like!” I say really loudly as Dylan passes by, my face buried in Lexi’s locker.

“Like that wasn’t obvious,” Lexi sniffs once Dylan’s out of earshot. I remove my head from her locker and Lexi slams it shut.

“Excuse me?” I say. “But that was a very good line. I mean, why else would my head have been all the way in your locker if it wasn’t to either look at your mirror or avoid Dylan?”

“Anyway,” Lexi tells Mel, ignoring my explanation, “I’m not saying you’re going to have to ask him out.”

Mel smiles.

“But,” Lexi goes on, “eventually, at some point, you are going to have to ask a guy out.”

“Why?” Mel asks. “Why should I ask a guy out?”

“Because don’t you want to be able to go for what you want?” Lexi asks. She pulls on the hem of the super short purple skirt she’s wearing over purple tights. My mom would have FREAKED if I’d gone out of the house wearing that. But something tells me Lexi’s mom doesn’t care. She probably bought it for her.

“Not if what I want doesn’t want me,” Mel says. She looks satisfied.

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained,” I sing. Mel gives me a dirty look.

“All I’m saying,” Lexi says. “Is that if you want to ask him out, you should ask him. Besides, it’s not fair to expect the guy to do the asking all the time. First, it’s extremely sexist and sets the feminist movement back, and second, sometimes guys are shy, too, and you might miss out on someone who really does like you just because he thinks that you don’t like him.” Lexi snaps her gum.

I’m not sure who’s more surprised, me, that Lexi not only knows words like feminist and sexist and is using them correctly, or Mel, because Lexi is making a good case for why she should just ask Dylan to the dance.

The bell rings then, and we all scatter to our classes. Mel looks tortured, so even though I know it’s against the rules, I text her from math.

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