Hannah's Bright Star by Lisa Schroeder

Author:Lisa Schroeder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Hannah decided her mother needed someone to sit down and explain what a surprise is supposed to be. Or what it’s not supposed to be. For example, a surprise Christmas gift is not supposed to be a mule instead of a horse. And a surprise visit is not supposed to be to see Louanne Dodger.

When Louanne opened the front door of her apartment, with her mascara smudged so much around her eyes that she looked like a raccoon, Hannah glared at her mother. Mrs. Crawford didn’t skip a beat though.

“Sweetie, we stopped by to make sure you’re doing all right.” She held out the plate of cookies. “Hannah baked these earlier today and we thought they might cheer you up. Chocolate is a girl’s best friend and all of that.”

As Louanne took the cookies, Hannah said, “I think the saying is about diamonds, Mama. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.”

Louanne’s bottom lip began to tremble. “And I’ll never get a diamond from Dwight now,” she said with a shaky voice, before she closed her eyes and started to cry.

“Oh, dear,” Mrs. Crawford said, stepping forward and putting her arm around Louanne. “It’s going to be okay. You’ll see.” She led Louanne inside and motioned to Hannah to close the door.

Mrs. Crawford took the plate of cookies and set them on a coffee table that sat in front of a blue-and-green plaid sofa. While she and Louanne settled in on the sofa, Hannah stood there, looking around. There was a curio cabinet in the corner filled with music boxes. Hannah was pretty sure she’d never seen so many music boxes. On the walls were pictures of various country music singers, holding guitars or sitting at the piano. Louanne was crazy about music, that was for sure.

Hannah sat down in a wooden rocking chair across from the sofa while her mother fished a tissue out of her purse for Louanne. She wished she could be anywhere but here, because this was not fun. Not even remotely fun. Like, scrubbing the toilet would have been more fun than sitting there, watching Louanne cry her eyes out.

“I’m sorry,” Louanne said after she blew her nose. “My heart is just completely and utterly broken, you know?”

“Well, what happened?” Mrs. Crawford asked. “I thought the two of you were getting along like two doves in a tree.”

“That’s just it,” Louanne said, leaning back into the sofa. “We were. And then he came over here last night and told me it was over. When I asked him why, all he said was, ‘sometimes feelings are too complicated to put into words.’ ”

“I agree with that, actually,” Hannah said, thinking about her feelings for Stardust.

Mrs. Crawford gave her daughter a look that told Hannah that probably wasn’t the best thing to say right now.

Louanne wiped her nose again. “He said I just had to trust him that this was for the best. That we both deserved better.” She shook her head. “It doesn’t make any sense to me.

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