Emmett by L. C. Rosen

Author:L. C. Rosen [ROSEN, L. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

chapter seven

THE REST OF THE WEEKEND IS SO BUSY I BARELY HAVE TIME TO THINK about anything besides the festival. Friday it was only half a day, but Saturday is from morning until night, and I’m on-site the entire time, cleaning puke, restocking condoms, running the ring toss booth, the health booth, the balloon pop booth. At one point the power goes out to the Fair But Frozen Maid truck and I need to stop the whole festival so I can flip a breaker. Sunday is almost the same, except some money goes missing until it turns up in a cashbox a freshman forgot to bring to me. And then we have strike, take down all the decorations, unwind the twinkling lights, pack away the giant fake tree again. By Sunday night, my muscles are so sore I feel like I can’t move, and all I want to do is sleep for a week. So it’s perfect timing for midterms.

With all the distraction, I’m not even annoyed that Clarke and Harrison haven’t gone on an official date yet. If I were Clarke, I’d be waiting until after midterms anyway. Sure, that first day at the festival would have been perfect, they could have gone for another ice cream, but knowing Clarke, another ice cream wasn’t on the menu if he was going to be in a Speedo every day. And honestly, I’d feel the same. But clearly sparks were flying, so I decide to leave it until after midterms. If they don’t have a date by Friday, then perhaps my intervention will be required again. It’s really a bit much, at this point. But like the festival, sometimes nothing would get done without me.

So I study and get ready for tests, and the student council has a little ceremony and photo shoot of us with the seats in the theater to show what we’ve accomplished (the email we send to the student body is all photos of us in the theater chairs and the slogan “Remember when you sit, we all earned it” to give everyone a sense of accomplishment). The NCCC money I write as a check, from the school checkbook, and mail in, after calling ahead. They say thank you and promise to send someone to the school to talk about cervical cancer, if we ever want them to. Dad would love that, but the principal says our health classes cover it, so I don’t mention it to him.

Dad’s very proud when I tell him how much we raised. He tears up so much he becomes worried about allergies and makes us both eat a tangerine for the vitamin C to help bolster our immune systems.

And then there are midterms. I think I’ll do all right with them. I’ve been studying, and I’ve never been bad at tests. It would be awful to lose my ranking this late in my high school career, but I can’t see myself dropping much. Certainly not enough to worry about Stanford rescinding their acceptance.

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