Face the Music by Melody Carlson

Author:Melody Carlson [Carlson, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56394-1
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2004-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Saturday, June 18

Hardly a single day goes by where there’s not something on the schedule. Sometimes it’s only an hour-long commitment to sign CDs at a music store in a mall. Sometimes it’s two concerts in one day. But it’s safe to say we’re all tired. And it’s starting to show.

Allie and Laura got into a fight today. I don’t think I’ve seen those two go at it since the early days when Laura thought Allie was a complete idiot for being interested in Wicca. Well, today Allie would be the first one to agree with her on that account. But they couldn’t agree on where we should go for lunch. I mean, how stupid is that?

“I want something junky and greasy,” Allie was practically yelling when I came into the hotel room.

“Well, I don’t,” snapped Laura. “Man, don’t you ever listen to your mom, Allie? Elise was always telling us about the fat content and empty carbs in fast food.”

“Too bad, my mom’s not here now.” Allie flopped down in the chair by the window and pretended to pout.

“What’s going on?” I asked.

“Allie’s throwing a hissy fit because I don’t want to eat at Burger Boy across the street.”

“It’s not a hissy fit.”

“So why don’t we just go our separate ways today?” I suggested.

“Because Willy wanted to meet us for lunch-all at the same place,” said Allie in a dramatic voice. “And Laura wants to go to the stupid Garden Terrace—la-di-dah.”

“And Allie wants to go slumming at Burger Boy.”

“And I want to go use the bathroom.” I shook my head. “You think you guys can sort this out while I’m gone?”

Apparently, they couldn’t. Now they had Beanie and Caitlin involved, and it wasn’t getting any better. Beanie had taken Laura’s side. And Caitlin, even though she doesn’t like fast food, was feeling sorry for Allie. Go figure.

Then the phone rang.

“That’s Willy,” said Allie. “Looks like you’re the tiebreaker, Chloe.”

I picked up the phone and told Willy we’d meet him at the hotel restaurant downstairs. I could hear the groans behind me, but I really didn’t care.

“That’s pretty creative, Chloe,” Allie said in a snitty voice. “It’s not like we don’t eat half our meals in hotel restaurants.”

“Look, Allie. You can get a burger and Laura can get a salad. You should both be happy. It’s just food, for Pete’s sake!” Then I stomped out. Don’t even ask me why. Maybe I just felt like being dramatic.

I think we all felt a little sheepish when we were seated at the restaurant table and Willy made his little announcement.

“Congratulations, girls. You now have two CDs on the bestsellers chart.”

“No way!” I exploded.

He nodded. “Yep. Omega called this morning.”

“That is so cool,” said Allie.

“Awesome,” said Laura.

Then the two of them did a cute little apology thing, and suddenly we were all friends again.

“Now the downside of this is that you girls will have to work really hard to keep this going,” said Willy. “You need to stay focused and keep yourselves balanced.”

“I’ve been meaning to mention this myself,” said Caitlin.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.