My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody

Author:Jessica Brody [Brody, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781250004833
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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We won!

We actual y won. Our very first debate tournament and we official y kicked ass! We were victorious in al three of our rounds and it feels

positively ah-mazing. Especial y after how hard we’ve been working over the past week. I mean, besides the never-ending, daunting task of

keeping my operating system “Shayne-compatible,” what else have I ever worked this hard for in my entire life? Not much, real y.

I admit, Brian helped me through a lot of it. Passing me notes during my cross-examinations, holding up cue cards during my rebuttals, and

giving me encouraging pep-whispers before I had to go up and speak. But in the end, whatever we were doing obviously worked because we went

3 and 0. Something Ms. Rich says I should be extremely proud of for my first tournament. And you know what? I am!

After the long day is final y over, Brian and I are back in his pickup truck, on the way to the diner to meet everyone. I’m stil gloating about our

victory and reliving al the best moments, while he tries to sneak in a few veiled critiques about my performance along the way. You know, smal stuff

like standing up straighter at the podium, not getting so defensive when the other team cross-examines me, and not shouting “aha!” when my

opponent fails to answer one of my questions. I do admit I got a little carried away with that one.

“Remember, no matter how many times we win,” he begins in earnest, “there’s always room for improvement.”

And although I nod my head with equal earnestness, as if I truly do agree with him, real y al I can continue to think is We won! We won! I can’t

freaking believe it! If someone had told me three months ago that I’d be driving home from a school-sponsored debate tournament at nine o’clock

on a Saturday night, I would have laughed in their faces. Actual y, no. I probably would have just walked away before they finished talking because

they would have lost me at “school-sponsored.”

But here I am. Thanks to my blog readers. And I have to say, despite the fact that I’m stil total y pissed off at them for not letting me go to that

club last weekend with Hunter, I have to give them props for this feeling. Winning is pretty awesome. I mean, even if it is at debate.

About halfway home, however, the exhilaration of victory slowly starts to give way to the drowsiness of fatigue. I had no idea how completely

exhausted I am until my eyelids start to feel like rocks and my head starts to flop forward like a rag dol ’s.

Brian just laughs at me like he’s been through this progression of emotions before and he knows exactly how I feel. “Go ahead. Get some

sleep,” he tel s me as he glances out the window. “We stil have about forty minutes until…”

But I don’t hear the last part because I’m already out like a light.

I wake up to the sound of a far-off beeping noise.

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