Fierce as the Wind by Tara Wilson Redd

Author:Tara Wilson Redd [Redd, Tara Wilson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2021-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

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When I get home, I run to my room and look at myself in the long, tall mirror. I’m wearing the running clothes that Rei bought me, with one of Rei’s open-back mesh shirts layered over it. With my shirt tied in a little knot and my hair straight, I look so different. Rei was right: a flat iron and some mascara. I look like I don’t belong in my own room.

I straighten myself up, flip my hair, stand at just the right angle so it almost looks like I have a thigh gap. I look just like them.

“What are you doing?”

I crumple.

“Dad!” I shout. I forgot to close the door.

“Modeling?”

“No. What are you doing?” He is wearing his hook leg, and I want to ask him why, but I’m too embarrassed. He looks sheepish. Also sweaty. Was he running?

“I asked you first,” he says.

“Rei gave me a makeover.”

He raises an eyebrow. I sigh loudly.

“You look…nice. I know these are very trendy, but they are not pants.”

“Dad. They’re leggings.”

“Why exactly are you wearing them and where are you going in them? Surely not out of this room.”

“I’m just trying them on, okay? They’re for running,” I snap. He raises his hands, laughing.

“As long as it’s not to school. Dinner in fifteen minutes. Did you eat?”

“No,” I lie. Somehow I’m hungry again. He shuts the door still grinning. I can’t be mad. He didn’t mean anything by it.

I take it off and shove everything in a drawer.

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