Here's Lily by Nancy Rue

Author:Nancy Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 2012-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Nine

Kathleen was late joining them in the classroom, which immediately got the warning butterflies going in Lily’s stomach. Kathleen was always on time, just the way she expected them to be.

And when she did hurry in, there was a clump of blondish hair sticking straight out from behind her ear, and her lipstick had worn off. Something was definitely wrong.

“She looks weird tonight,” Cassie whispered to Lily.

“Stressed out,” said Stinky from the other side.

“She better not be too stressed,” Cassie said. “We’re supposed to pick out our outfits tonight. Don’t tell me she couldn’t get the clothes!”

But several racks of inviting-looking garments beckoned from over in the corner, so that wasn’t it. Lily was glad when Kathleen raised her hand and everybody got quiet. She was afraid to breathe.

“I may have some bad news for you,” Kathleen said. “There’s been a mix-up with the Riverside Garden Club. They’ve scheduled two events on the same night, and one of them is ours. We’ve been bumped.”

“No fair!” one of the boys said. Nobody was thinking about Kathleen’s rules at this point.

“No, it isn’t,” said Kathleen, “but then, life seldom is.” Her mouth was in a straight line.

Cassie nodded and whispered to Lily, “She’s stressed out all right. I’ve seen my mother look like that a thousand times.”

But Lily was leaning forward in her seat, heart pounding. What was going to happen? Did this mean they weren’t going to have their show?

“I don’t want anybody panicking,” Kathleen was saying. “We will have our show, but we may have to postpone it until I can find a place big enough.”

“What about the armory?”

“You could have it at that one movie theater. That’s way big!”

“Gold’s Gym,” Lily muttered.

Kathleen put her hand up again. “I do have one lead, but it would mean having it on Saturday afternoon instead of Thursday night.”

For once Lily wanted to shout out, and she wanted to shout, “No! Not a Saturday! Shad Shifferdecker hangs out at the mall on Saturdays!” She was about to yell, “Let’s have it at the mall!” when Kathleen put her hand up yet again and added a finger snap. Lily bit her lip.

“We might be able to get the middle school at the Cedar Hills school complex, but it would help if someone in our group went to one of the schools there. I know one of you does. Who is that?”

She frowned over the group, and every neck craned.

But I don’t want to do it at Cedar Hills! Lily thought. There’s no way I’ll ever get Shad near a school on a Saturday!

“This could be our only option on such short notice,” Kathleen said.

“Come on. Raise your hand!” one of the boys said. “What’s the big deal?”

It is a big deal—for me, Lily thought. There has to be some other way.

And then she saw Kathleen pawing through a stack of files on the table. Their files. In about a minute she was going to discover who went to Cedar Hills, and she was going to be disappointed in Lily for not raising her hand.

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