Ghost of a Chance by Lauren Barnholdt

Author:Lauren Barnholdt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Chapter

8

Mr. Jacobi marches me and Ellie right back to school and to the main office, where we get written up not only for skipping class but for leaving campus to do it. Apparently, skipping school and staying on school grounds isn’t as bad as if you leave. I guess it’s some kind of liability issue or something.

The principal calls my dad, but luckily my dad doesn’t ask to talk to me. He just thanks them for letting him know and says he’ll deal with me when I get home. Hopefully, he’ll understand I’m in a weakened emotional state and cut me some slack.

Ellie’s parents are pretty chill about it too, at least at first, but still. I feel horrible for getting her in trouble. I mean, let’s face it, she wouldn’t even have been skipping if it weren’t for me.

When the principal is done calling our parents, he makes us go to class.

The day passes at a snail’s pace.

Madison has apparently decided I’m crazy, so every time I see her in the hall, she whispers about me to whoever is next to her and then giggles and turns her back.

At lunch things are super-awkward. Even though Ellie and I have made up, obviously I can’t sit at my normal lunch table. Brandon’s at that lunch table. So I pick a different table, and then Ellie moves over to sit with me, and then I start having tons of guilt, because if it wasn’t for me, Ellie would be sitting at her usual table with Kyle. But instead she’s having to give up what she wants, for a best friend who’s lying to her.

It’s so awful.

To make matters worse, after school is our first official tutoring session at Stoneridge Elementary School.

And since I have no one to talk to as we walk over, I end up at the back of the line, talking to Lily.

“So get this,” I say, making sure to keep my voice low so no one else can hear me. “Apparently, you were in college. At a summer program, and then you were going to be a freshman.”

She frowns. “Really? That’s so cool. Leave it to me to end up dying while I’m in college. I mean, all I ever wanted to do was get out of high school, and just when I get my chance, I die.”

I roll my eyes. “Right, like you really wanted to get out of high school.”

“Of course I did,” she says. “High school was horrible.”

“Riiigght.” Lily’s gorgeous. I highly doubt she had to worry about the normal high school problems, like mean girls or boys not liking her back.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” she asks as she flicks a perfectly curled glossy tendril of hair over her shoulder. I wonder how she gets her hair to stay so perfect. Maybe it’s a ghost thing. If you can’t be affected by things like wind and rain, it’s probably hard for your hair to get messed up.

“I don’t know,” I say slowly.

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