Lights, Camera, Disaster by Erin Dionne

Author:Erin Dionne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Nev didn’t message me last night, not even to respond to the photos from the Nazaris’ bakery, so I’m not surprised when she doesn’t show up at my locker … but I was still kind of hoping she would. I cram my stuff in there, narrowly avoiding another landslide, and drag my feet to Ms. Walker’s room for homeroom. I didn’t sleep well—I stayed up way too late reading Smile—and today I feel like the undead. To make matters worse, for the first time ever, I’ve left my camera at home.

I may as well be naked.

As soon as I cross into homeroom, Ms. Walker waves me to her desk. Frowning and tight-lipped, she passes me an Office Appointment slip—but not the regular kind. It’s the bright yellow one that means you’re meeting with more than one administrator. Translation: You’re in trouble.

“Don’t be late,” she says, frown getting even deeper. “After fifth period.”

I nod, feeling too awful to even see who is on the slip, and take my seat. The morning announcements begin—and of course, the first one is a reminder that academic permission forms for the Hoot are due by the end of the day.

“A yellow office slip?” Sarah, in front of me, pretends to be looking for something in the bag on the floor next to her desk. Her long, dark hair acts as a shield between her words and Ms. Walker. “Way to go.”

The words land in my heart like knives hitting a target.

She grabs a pen and straightens, her hair sliding across the top of my desk like it’s straight out of a shampoo commercial. It takes all the strategies I have not to pull it.

“Shut up,” I say.

“No talking during morning announcements, Miss Greene,” Ms. Walker says, but she’s looking at her phone, and my anger grows even hotter.

I spend the last ten minutes of homeroom one-two-three breathing, and wondering how bad the rest of the day will be.

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