Love and Miss Communication by Elyssa Friedland

Author:Elyssa Friedland [Friedland, Elyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

It was only a matter of days before the details of the teenage drama Evie witnessed outside the school office unraveled. Evie ventured into the Klieger Teachers’ Lounge, no doubt named for Eleanor’s family, after she discovered with disappointment that the outdoor bench she favored had been sold earlier that morning. She overheard a few middle-aged teachers discussing the rift between Eleanor and Jamie. They were so engrossed in the gossip nobody even looked up when Evie entered and settled herself at an empty table with her lunch bag.

“Apparently, someone put a photo on Facebook of a Labor Day Hamptons barbecue at the Matthews place in Montauk, right on the ocean, and you can see Jamie in the background kissing another girl. I heard she goes to boarding school in Switzerland and her family was staying with the Matthewses. This was while Eleanor was away with her family in St. Tropez.” The teacher who was speaking, a haughty-looking woman Evie recognized from the day of her interview, appeared tickled to have the scoop. Peddling teenage dirt, she didn’t seem quite as intimidating as she had a few weeks ago.

“So are they breaking up?” another teacher, dressed in a dowdy navy skirt and ill-fitting floral blouse, asked breathlessly, as though the outcome of Jamie and Eleanor’s relationship might have even the slightest impact on her life. The other teachers huddled in closer.

The teacher with the inside track spoke again.

“Well, apparently Jamie is trying to claim that this all happened the summer before, and now Eleanor’s friends have been Skyping with some kids they know in Europe who go to school with this mystery Swiss girl to determine if he’s telling the truth.”

Evie was simultaneously intrigued and shocked. Eleanor and Jamie were good-looking enough to warrant attention for sheer attractiveness, let alone their social standing. But to see these teachers discussing their students’ personal lives with lust was still uncomfortable. Was it possible that her teachers at Pikesville High, like Mr. Londino or Ms. Robidoux the French teacher with the permanent runs in her stockings, chatted about Evie and her friends during their free periods? Probably not. The Manhattan teens provided far more interesting fodder.

A man who had been sitting one table over rose to join the group. Evie knew from studying the yearbook she had found in the office that he was Mr. Molinetto, the physics teacher. He was a nerd from central casting, with Coke bottle glasses and a faded short-sleeved button-down adorned with a polyester brown tie.

“It’s from this summer,” he said authoritatively and waited for all the teachers to give him their full attention. “One of the students left their Facebook account open in the library, so I took a look. You can see a guesthouse if you look closely at the photograph. I distinctly remember that just last December Jamie’s family was involved in a lawsuit with their neighbor over the construction of a guesthouse. Apparently the neighbor claimed the additional structure on the Matthews property would interfere with the sound of the waves crashing.

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