Holly Banks Full of Angst by Julie Valerie

Author:Julie Valerie [Valerie, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1542014069
Amazon: B07N8SM3XR
Goodreads: 43889823
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Published: 2019-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

20

Tuesday night

Late again but not wanting to miss it, Holly stopped at a convenience store on her way to the Scrap & Swap Fund-Raiser to buy Gatorade and antigas, antidiarrheal remedies. Now, as she sat in the parking lot of Primm Academy—her third visit to the school in one day—she kept wishing she could wait a few minutes to let the medicines and electrolyte-replenishment start to work, but she was already late. The event had started more than an hour ago.

“Jack, I feel horrible,” Holly breathed into the phone, leaning her head against the steering wheel of the rental car.

“Then come home.”

“I can’t. I have to at least make an appearance.”

“That’s crazy. Come home.”

Holly took another swig of her Gatorade. “Don’t say that. I’m not crazy.” Pa-leez don’t tell me I’m crazy. Holly paused a moment. Should I tell him? Oh, what the heck. He dropped a bomb on me today. Offshore shell companies? That’s crazy. “I think I’m being targeted.”

“Targeted?” He sounded concerned. This “research” he was brought to Primm to investigate wasn’t dangerous, was it? Because Holly expected a different reaction than the one she got. “Targeted by whom?”

“Whom? You sound so formal. The president of the PTA. I think she’s out to get me. I know she is.”

“Hold on.” Holly could hear him walking away from the TV. He must have been going to a quieter place in the house, away from Ella. “What do you mean she’s targeting you?”

“She’s targeting me. But don’t worry. I’m starting to learn how she works. You have to know your enemy to defeat your enemy.”

FADE IN:

EXT. DARK ALLEY BEHIND SCHOOL — NIGHT

Shot of MARY-MARGARET emerging from shadows, stepping into the dim light cast by an exterior lamp above an empty soccer field. HOLLY readies for battle.

MARY-MARGARET

(holding a plate of cookies, heat rising from them like a smoking gun)

Cookies?

HOLLY

(sinister laughing)

Who do you think I am? Cookie Monster?

“What happened?” Jack asked.

“She planted that bogus school supply list in Ella’s backpack thinking it’ll break me.”

“School supply list.”

“Yes,” Holly told him. “It’s an awful list. You saw it.”

“O-kaaaaay.”

“Why’d you say it like that? I’m sure I’m not the only mom that’s ever felt a school supply list would do her in.” Her forehead felt hot, but Holly refused to let it get the best of her. She could see the side doors to Primm Academy, the doors that led to the cafeteria, where she’d confront Mary-Margaret about the supply list and stage her last stand, telling Mary-Margaret she wouldn’t be her secretary.

Leaning her chin against the top of the steering wheel, Holly gazed out at the school. It was breathtaking. Truly. “Primm Academy is so perfect. It’s like la-la land. The grounds are manicured; the moms are manicured. They served tilapia in the cafeteria today. Do kids eat tilapia? Ella doesn’t eat tilapia. She can’t even pronounce it.”

“Holly, come home. I’ll run a bath. You can unwind.”

“I’ll stay for ten minutes,” Holly told him. “I’m curious about scrapbooking, and I had such a horrible day; I kinda want to redeem myself.

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