Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

Author:Wendy Mass [MASS, WENDY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780316040884
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2008-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

BREE

5

With my hair restored to its usual sheen and my makeup on, I feel a little more like myself again. As long as I don’t look down at my clothes. Those boxes really better get here today! As I suspected, Ryan is proving a welcome distraction. He talks a lot and at lunch he entertains Kenny and Melanie (who are now glued at the hip) by telling them stories about vampires and werewolves who haunt campgrounds. He better be making those stories up. I keep glancing over to see when Ally’s parents are going to come out of Mom and Dad’s cabin. I think they’ll have to pass this way. I’m still not sure where everything is around here. Hopefully I’ll never have to find out.

Melanie jabs me with her pointy little elbow. “What?” I ask, rubbing my arm.

“Ryan’s asking you a question.”

“Oh, sorry. What was the question?”

“I just asked what you like to do,” Ryan says, downing his container of milk. “You know, besides wearing other girls’ clothes.” He says this with a wink. At least he realizes I wouldn’t normally dress this way, which is a point in his favor.

Borrowing clothes makes me think of Claire. I wonder what she’s doing right now. She’s probably at the mall with Lara Rudy, the best friend stealer! How do I answer his question? I can’t very well say, I like to take pictures of myself with my friends and then stick them in a Wish Book alongside real models. So I say, “You know, hang out with my friends, go to the movies, shop at the mall, the usual.”

Ryan nods. Kenny says, “That’s not the usual around here, that’s for sure.”

“What’s a regular day like here?” Melanie asks.

Leave it to Melanie to ask questions that no one else (okay, me) wants to hear the answers to.

“Well,” says Kenny thoughtfully. “It depends. If it’s a school day, we do schoolwork in the morning and then do our chores and stuff in the afternoon.”

“But it’s not like real school,” I point out. “You don’t have tests and book reports, right?”

“Sure we have tests. My mom makes them up, but they’re based on the books she gets for us. Then at the end of the year she has to send stuff to the state, to prove we’re learning and everything.”

I turn to Mel. “Can you picture Mom as our teacher?”

“She’ll be too busy,” Mel replies. “We’re gonna do the school-in-a-box thing. It’s different than regular homeschooling—it’s more on our own. The curriculum arrives in a big box and then we have all year to go through it.” She turns back to Kenny and says, “I can’t wait.”

I roll my eyes at Ryan. “Melanie loves school.”

“So do I!” Kenny says. He and Melanie high-five each other. They start to compare their favorite subjects, and I want to scream. I’ve had enough of Melanie and her excitement over everything. For such a genius, it drives me crazy that she isn’t smart enough to see what a bad idea moving here is.

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