Figure It Out, Henri Weldon by Tanita S. Davis

Author:Tanita S. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

15

Bus Ride Revelations

From Henri’s journal

Tryout. Try it. Try. You’ll never know until you do.

“Try” turns a caterpillar to a giant butterfly.

(Well, not really, but it rhymes.)

Wednesday morning, Henri woke up the first time the alarm clock beeped. She actually got up when the alarm on her phone beeped. The next alarm that beeped reminded her she had twelve minutes to take a shower and dress. Henri had planned out everything.

Today, Henri would put on long socks, her brown ankle boots, and her PE T-shirt with denim short overalls. It was too hot to put her PE shorts on underneath, but she could change and put on tennis shoes in the locker room. The night before, Henri had packed her backpack full of her books and assignments, and she had four dollars to buy lunch, so that was no problem. Now, all she had to do was put up her hair, eat her breakfast, brush her teeth, and go.

Everything would be right today.

Katherine, who was still giving Henri the very loud Silent Treatment, gave a disgusted huff as Henri’s alarm went off again. Henri ignored her and turned it off. She had twenty minutes for breakfast, and she was running late, but that was fine. Her hair had to stay tidy all day, so Henri added extra gel to lay down her baby hairs when she pulled up her bun.

Henri was in the kitchen, downing a bowl of yogurt, fruit, and granola while Jordan blended up a green smoothie. Her alarm went off again, and she silenced it with a sigh. Even she was getting sick of the chirpy be-bing, be-bing, be-bing noise, but this alarm had important information. The bus would be at the bus stop in eight minutes. Henri chewed faster. She shouldn’t have chosen granola for her breakfast.

Jordan leaned against the counter with his smoothie, watching her shove down her food. “You got a test?” he asked.

Henri shook her head with chipmunk cheeks. “No, I just don’t want to have to run for the bus.”

Katherine, who was making toast, sucked her teeth with an annoying tsk sound.

Henri glared at her. “What?”

Katherine turned her back, making sure Henri remembered that the Silent Treatment meant she didn’t get an answer.

Henri ignored Katherine back, directing her comments toward her brother. “I don’t want to run for the bus because I’m going to run after school. I’m trying out for soccer today.”

Jordan slurped his smoothie and nodded, brows raised. “Huh.”

Kat spun around and opened her mouth, then closed it, forehead bunched in irritation.

Henri shoved in her last bite and grinned, probably showing off a disgusting wad of half-chewed granola in the process. She didn’t care. Kat was a victim of her own Silent Treatment. She couldn’t yell about it or anything!

Henri rinsed her face, drank a glass of water, brushed her teeth, and ran out the front door. Katherine was already at the bus stop, so Henri came to a stop a few feet away, straightened the silver H on her charm bracelet, and pulled out a tube of lip gloss.

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