Friends ForNever by Katy Grant

Author:Katy Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

When we went back to the cabin to change clothes from free swim, hardly anyone was there. Just Natasha, Ashlin, and Whitney over on Side B. Whitney politely said hello to us, like she always did.

I’d been feeling pretty good about myself since we’d helped Mary Claire stand up for herself. And we’d done it without beating up her little tormentor. But as soon as I saw Whitney, it brought me down a couple of notches.

“We really need to say something to Whitney,” I murmured to Nicole as we changed out of our wet swimsuits.

“No! Not without Sarah,” Nic whispered back.

“I think we should,” I insisted. “We’ve waited too long.” Sarah hadn’t talked to Whitney yesterday like she’d promised. Somebody needed to do something.

“Hey, Whitney? Could you come over here for a second?” I called.

Nicole gave me a look that said, Are you out of your mind? But I didn’t care. Whitney came over to our side of the cabin and stood by Libby’s bed, very straight and still, with her hands clasped in front of her. She looked like she was bracing herself for what was next. “Yes?”

“Uh,” I began. How was I going to say this? A speeded-up version of our Whitney-dissing played through my head. Control freak brags too much dump her. “You remember the dance on Saturday?” I asked weakly.

Whitney remained perfectly still. “Yes.”

“Uh. Well. When you walked out, Nic and Sarah and I said some stuff.” That was as far as I could go. Nic obviously wasn’t going to jump in and take over.

There was a long pause as Whitney waited for me to go on. “Some stuff?” she said finally.

“Yeah. Some really mean stuff. Whitney, we know you heard us. And we all feel really, really, really awful. We are so sorry—all of us.”

“Do you feel awful because of what you said or awful because I happened to overhear you?” Whitney asked quietly.

Ouch. The truth was, if she hadn’t happened to overhear us, then we would’ve dissed her, laughed about it, and then never given it a second thought.

“We feel awful because of what we said. But we were just being . . .” cruel, heartless, vicious, “. . . gossipy, and none of us meant any of it. You know how it is when a bunch of girls get together. One person says something about someone who isn’t there and then everyone else starts talking and you’re just saying stuff that you never expect will get back to the person, and . . .”

This was not going where I wanted it to go. I looked to Nicole for help, but she just raised her eyebrows at me. I knew what she was thinking—that incredibly annoying people were at constant risk of being ridiculed every time they left a room. She still thought Whitney had brought this all on herself by being so . . . Whitney-ish.

Whitney let out a little impatient sigh. “No, Darcy. I don’t know how it is. I make it a practice never to say mean things about other people—ever.

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