Georgetown Academy 1 and 2 by Etting Jessica & Schwartz Alyssa

Author:Etting, Jessica & Schwartz, Alyssa [Etting, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction
Publisher: Coliloquy
Published: 2013-07-31T07:00:00+00:00

The sun was just starting to meander its way through the clouds early Monday morning when Ellie, tossing and turning in her bed as she had the entire the weekend, heard rustling in her room.

“Time to get up, Ellie!” instructed a voice she immediately recognized as belonging to her best friend, Brinley Madison.

Ellie slowly opened her eyes, painfully swollen from an entire weekend’s worth of crying. Once Hunter had left Friday evening, Ellie had returned to her bed and let the tears flood out for hours. Crying about Hunter and how coldly he had looked at her, about how stupid she had been to take him for granted. Crying about Gabe and the way he had totally upended her life. Crying about her mother and secretly wishing she were a regular mom with a regular job so everything wouldn’t always be so utterly complicated.

And there, in her bed, she had remained for the entire weekend, leaving only for bathroom breaks and to replenish her stash of Saltine crackers, the one food item she could tolerate. Her mother had spent the entire weekend holed up in her office with a few members of her staff, going into what Jasmine referred to as “Deep Damage Control Mode,” and hadn’t checked on her once, at least not while Ellie was awake. By Saturday morning, the photo was on every cable news outlet, the anchors raising judgmental eyebrows as they debated Marilyn’s parenting tactics and whether she could be a good mother and a senator. The implication being, given the photo, that she could not.

Jasmine, who had been nice enough to bring Ellie a cup of chamomile tea Saturday evening, told Ellie she should consider herself lucky the photo came out on a Friday. None of the nightly news shows aired over the weekend, so Rachel Maddow and Bill O’Reilly would have to wait until Monday to comment on it. The hope was, by then, some other newsworthy story would bump Ellie’s off their radar.

Of course, the timing of it all did mean the story was featured on weekend news shows like Meet the Press. Ellie hadn’t intended on watching, but she couldn’t tear her eyes away as two gray-haired men she’d never met debated her stupidity and Marilyn’s humiliation, in between weightier discussions about the national unemployment rate and Iran’s nuclear arms program.

During one of Ellie’s quick trips to the pantry, she overheard a debate between Marilyn, Jasmine, and several aides about whether Marilyn should make a statement to the press. Jasmine argued it might alleviate the negative P.R. being thrust Marilyn’s way, though she acknowledged it would give more weight to the photo. Marilyn was inclined to ignore the situation completely in the hopes that the scandal might die down. For years she had been working toward attaining the chairman position on the Senatorial Judicial Committee, and it had recently become available. Until the chairmanship was assigned, the less personal drama that surrounded Marilyn, the better, especially while Strippergate was still out there.

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