Get It Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough

Author:Erin Gough [Gough, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2017-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

“Every T-shirt needs this stencil on the back,” Rosa explains, showing me one with a “Save Our Library” slogan. “But you can put anything on the front as long as it’s book-themed. We’ve got some paper and pencils if you want to draw your own design. Otherwise you can use one of Angeline’s.”

I flip through the stack of stencils. “Wow, these are really good.”

Angeline shrugs shyly. “I like to draw.”

“She’s being modest,” Rosa says, nudging me. “She’s been winning art prizes for years.”

“I’ll try one of my own, but if it doesn’t work I’d love to use one of yours,” I tell Angeline.

“What are you going to draw?” Rosa asks.

“A girl reading a book. If you’ll model for me, that is.” Am I flirting with Rosa Barea?

She laughs. “Where do you want me?”

I resist articulating any of the dozen suggestive responses that fly into my head, and instead direct her toward the bottom of the fig tree.

Drawing Rosa gives me the perfect excuse to study her face. It’s crazy how different people appear when you get the chance to look at them properly. Occasionally our eyes fix upon each other, before I look down again at the paper.

It takes me five minutes to realize that the drawing is a disaster.

“Show me.”

I protest, but she tears it out of my hands. She looks at it for a moment and then at me. “This is terrible,” she says, bursting into laughter. “Let’s get you one of Ange’s.”

“I guess I draw as badly as I dance. How come Angeline gets to be good at both? It’s not fair.”

“This family is too talented for words,” Joss agrees.

“If only we weren’t,” says Angeline, looking knowingly at Rosa.

“What do you mean?” I ask.

Angeline and Rosa exchange glances. “We’ve just been doing it for a long time, that’s all,” says Rosa. “Sometimes it gets . . .”

“Tedious. Repetitive. Boring,” Angeline fills in.

“Oh,” I say, looking from one to the other. “But you’re so good at it! And your article in the paper, Rosa, about the rally—even there you said how passionate you were about flamenco.”

Rosa looks uncomfortable. “I used to be. I mean, I am. It’s part of our family history. But we do it a lot, Del. Six nights a week—”

“For ten years!” Angeline cries.

“Then why not give it up?”

“Because it means so much to Mum and Dad,” says Angeline. That would be Rosa’s aunt and uncle, Adelina and Elvio.

“And it helps drum up business,” Rosa adds.

“So you’d rather have another job?”

“I’d rather be studying for uni. And doing this,” Rosa says, smiling. “Speaking of which, let’s get you set up.”

She holds out her hand. And with hope in my heart, I take it.

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