Gorgeous by Rachel Vail

Author:Rachel Vail
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Devil, Personal, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Young Adult Fiction, Magic, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Beauty, Fantasy, Models (Persons), Science Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories, YA), Social Issues - Friendship, Self-esteem, Social Issues, Humorous Stories, Girls & Women, Health & Daily Living, Juvenile Fiction, Family problems, Fantasy & Magic, United States, Family - General, People & Places, Friendship, Family, Cell phones, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Daily Activities, General, General fiction (Children's, Social Issues - Adolescence, New York (State), Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Adolescence
ISBN: 9780060890483
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-10-15T00:41:20.936000+00:00

16

MOM AND DAD WERE both sitting in the kitchen waiting when I got there.

“What?” I asked them.

Their arms were crossed over their chests and their faces were serious. I looked back and forth to try to figure out if they were sad or angry—if somebody had died, or if I had done something wrong. It was hard to tell.

“Did I do something?” I asked.

“Sit down,” Mom said quietly. Angry. Yup. No question. I was toast.

“What did I do?”

“Sit. Down,” Mom repeated.

I sat. The only words in my head were all curses. I waited. Nothing I said was going to hurry them or help me. I picked at my cuticles.

“Where did you go when you cut school Monday?” my father asked.

“Who said I cut school?” I asked, not denying it but still thinking I should know who told on me. That’s a constitutional right, I reasoned.

“Did you?” Dad asked. Golly, they were both pale, even their lips.

“Let me assure you, Allison,” Mom growled, “if you lie again now, you will be in even deeper trouble than you already are.”

“How deep am I in?” I asked, wondering what she meant by again.

“Don’t you be cute, miss,” Mom barked, flattening me against my seat.

“I’m not.” She was totally pissed. I was used to getting in trouble, but this was beyond. Her ears were pegged back on her head like an angry dog’s. I had never seen her this mad, even at me.

“Where did you go?” Dad asked again, as patiently as if he were asking one of his balky kindergartners where she’d hidden the class gerbil.

“Into the city,” I said, unsure how much to say, wondering how much they knew already. If Quinn had told on me, it would be probably about cutting school, though it could be about getting my picture taken too. But she wouldn’t tell, not unless she was really worried. So that left Jade, who tells her mom way too much. If Jade’s mom’s nosiness won the internal battle with her appropriateness, she’d call my parents. In that case it would be about breaking my grounding over the weekend, and then Mom or Dad would have said, No, Allison wasn’t grounded…. That could explain the again comment about lying, maybe. So Jade was my number one suspect, I decided, possibly altering my career choice to detective, assuming I survived the afternoon.

“Where did you say you went?” Mom asked, meanwhile. She was no longer pale. Uh-oh.

“The city,” I whispered again.

“Are you kidding me?”

Not sure if it was a real question or rhetorical, and not wanting to be cute, of all things, for the first time in my life, I started to shake my head, but then almost nodded, and then settled on a microshrug.

“With whom?” Dad asked.

“Roxie Green.”

Mom shook her head. I could see she was making an effort to stay in her chair. I appreciated that. I was starting to get weirdly giddy. It was, horrifyingly, an effort to keep from giggling, which would have been nonsensical as well as suicidal.

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