Lucy's Perfect Summer by Nancy Rue

Author:Nancy Rue
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian, Juvenile Fiction, ebook, Sports & Recreation, General, book, Soccer, Religious
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Tuesday morning, Dusty was in the very back seat of Veronica’s van when they picked up Lucy for camp, and she motioned for Lucy to join her. Veronica was in the front seat, making a huge deal out of not speaking to her mother, and Carla Rosa was in the second seat, “guess whatting” Januarie about something. It didn’t seem to matter to her that Januarie was fiddling with the contents of her backpack and showing no signs of listening at all.

“How come you didn’t come over yesterday, Bolillo?” Dusty whispered as Lucy buckled her seatbelt beside her.

“I couldn’t.”

“Did you get in trouble or something?”

Lucy shook her head and pretended that seatbelt fastening was way more complicated than it was. After Dad’s news about the radio station, she’d forgotten all about Dusty’s invitation. She’d practically forgotten everything, except to pray in her Book of Lists — although unless God made some kind of miracle happen, she didn’t see how all the begging and whining she’d written down was going to do any good.

“You know something, Lucy?”

Lucy looked up sharply at the tone of Dusty’s voice. It sounded like tears weren’t far away.

They weren’t. They were about to spill over onto Dusty’s cheeks.

Lucy didn’t know what to do. She’d only recently figured out what to do when she cried.

She decided on, “What?”

Dusty blinked fast. “I know you can’t eat lunch with us, but I don’t think your coach said you can’t talk to us any time.”

“She never — ”

Dusty curled her fingers around Lucy’s T-shirt and pulled her in closer — as if Lucy weren’t practically sitting in her lap already.

“I wanted you to come over because I can’t talk to anybody else about this — ”

“About — ?”

“And it might not be happening if you didn’t have to be on that other team — even though I know it’s the special team and you deserve that — but without you, everything is so awful — ”

“What — ?”

“Veronica’s grounded because my mom told her mom she saw her holding hands with the new boy on our team — ”

“What new — ?”

“So she won’t talk to me or her mom — like it was my fault my mom can’t mind her own business — although, I was already mad at Veronica because she’s so busy flirting with Zen — ”

“Who in the world — ?”

“ — she doesn’t pay any attention to soccer — which doesn’t actually matter because neither does Seth, and he’s supposed to be the coach but all he does is send text messages and say we have to work out our own problems, which we wouldn’t even have if you were there.” Dusty took a breath and surged on. “Gabe is all mad because he isn’t on the Boys’ Select Team, so he’s in a bad mood all the time — plus now Veronica likes Zen — ”

“Who — ?”

“ — and even though Gabe pretends he doesn’t like Veronica as a girlfriend, he likes it

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