Jenny Lopez Saves Christmas by Lindsey Kelk

Author:Lindsey Kelk
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007501564
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

‘Oh my God, we’re going to die,’ Sadie wailed, throwing herself against the staircase. She was wasted as a model; she totally could have been one of those dumb blonde girls that got murdered at the beginning of a horror movie. Preferably one of the really nasty ones. Maybe something in the Saw franchise.

‘Sadie, we’re not going to die,’ I said as matter-of-factly as possible. ‘We’re in the Finger Lakes − it’s hardly the end of civilization.’

‘But we have no electricity?’ she replied, pulling her thin jacket around her. ‘And I’m already cold? Are we going to freeze to death?’

‘Yeah, we’re gonna freeze to death,’ I sighed, shaking my head for extra emphasis. ‘You are the most dramatic human on earth.’

And from me, that was saying something.

‘Can you make it work?’ Sadie asked, snivelling and pushing herself into a broken-down-doll of a sitting position, draped against the stairs. ‘Can you fix it?’

‘Of course I can make it work,’ I said, looking out of the windows to see the sun setting across the lake. It would have been beautiful if our only source of light and heat wasn’t disappearing in the distance as I watched. ‘I’m sure it’s just a blown fuse or something. We just need to find the fuse box. I’ve got this.’

And as I was saying it, I kind of believed it. I’d lived on my own and with a variety of helpless roommates, and I’d dealt with more than one tripped circuit breaker in my time. Almost every apartment I’d lived in had the kind of wacky wiring where you couldn’t use the toaster, oven and the AC at the same time. Sadie didn’t know she was born,

‘Okay,’ she sniffed. ‘Jenny?’

‘Yeah?’

‘Why are you wearing a slutty Santa costume?’

I looked down at my minidress and shrugged. ‘Happy holidays?’ I offered.

Pinching her mouth into a tight circle, Sadie attempted to dial down the look of horror that had taken hold of her face as best she could and trotted into the kitchen after me. Ignoring her and dialling Erin’s number, I opened a variety of likely-looking cupboards and doors looking for the offending circuit breaker, finding nothing but a variety of very expensive seasonings and flatware. Sadie sat on the butcher’s-block island in the middle of the room, tapping the stainless-steel cookware that hung from the ceiling like a distracted cat. I hung up, relieved to know she was so invested in helping. One moment she was wailing about our impending doom, the next she was tapping out the tune to ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ on a sauté pan.

‘Erin isn’t picking up,’ I said, checking my emails and finding a message from the woman herself. The missing points for the presentation and a note to say she was taking the kids to meet Santa and would call in a couple of hours. Balls. She was totally offline. ‘But we’ll figure it out. Let’s get the fire going before the sun goes down. That’ll help.’

My suggestion wasn’t exactly met

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