I, Claudia by Mary McCoy

Author:Mary McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fiction-Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction, School, Education, Learning, Political, Politics, Government, Bullying, Carolrhoda Lab, Corruption, Friendship, High School, Humor, I, Claudia, Mary McCoy, Mystery, Power, Relationships, Scandal, Secrets, Siblings, Student, Student Government, Students, Teenager, Teenagers
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2018-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

XXVI

Honor Week

Honor is a maddeningly subjective word, and most of the other words that can be used to define it are similarly vague: uprightness; virtue; nobility; righteousness. Things I suspected that I was not, at least not in the way Hector was.

I think he did the smart thing by keeping things loose and letting people decide for themselves what constituted an act worthy of Honor Week. A few people grumbled about the dance, but word got around about what Hector had said during the Senate meeting and people also grumbled that he was right. Some people fell in line because Ty and Livia and all of their friends seemed to be so excited about it. And others got into it because there was just something about Hector.

He inspired them. He gave them a way to feel like they were the ones who’d stopped corruption, enacted justice, and ushered in a bright and promising future. And the political genius of Hector was that he let them feel that way. He wasn’t interested in looking good or taking the credit for himself.

Behind every idealist, though, is a realist. Behind every lofty intention is the person who’s tethering them to the ground. Behind the person cheering, “This is right!” is the person asking, “But will it sell?”

Hector could handle the ideas all by himself, but he needed me to manage the public relations component of his plan to resurrect Imperial Day from its shameful scandal. Honor Week was something Hector wanted to do for its own sake. If the ways in which it could be marketed to our advantage had occurred to him, he would have felt too guilty to properly exploit them.

Which is not to say he wouldn’t let me do it for him.

***

To KTLA Channel 5 News, I sent word of the following:

Maddie Urrea’s book drive for the local juvenile detention facility

Kian Sarkosian’s trash clean-up effort at the Venice boardwalk

Zelda Parsons’s care packages of toiletries and snacks for homeless people on Skid Row

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