Nantucket Summer [Nantucket Blue and Nantucket Red bind-up] by Leila Howland

Author:Leila Howland [Howland, Leila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN my thirteen years of attending the Rosewood School for Girls, I was scared to walk through the front doors. I should’ve been happy. As a senior, I was going to be allowed off campus for lunch. I was going to write the name of whatever colleges I was accepted into on the big piece of butcher paper hanging in the senior lounge. I was going to be captain of the field hockey and lacrosse teams, and for years I’d planned on being one of the seniors who was super nice to the freshman. As I watched girls spill out of cars in spanking-new uniforms, and gather in quartets and trios, I didn’t feel nice.

“I can’t go in,” I said to Mom. “Jules hates me.”

“She doesn’t hate you. She’s been through hell, but you did nothing wrong.”

“What about Nina’s memorial service?” I leaned against the headrest to offset the nausea.

“You thought you were doing the right thing. It was an innocent mistake.”

“Zack?” Innocent was not the word to describe us.

“Falling in love with someone’s brother is not a hanging offense,” Mom said and checked herself out in the visor mirror. She applied a new shade of lipstick. Coral. It was actually kind of hip. She’d been taking antidepressants for three weeks now and I could tell they were starting to work. She readjusted the mirror. “Now, out you go, I can’t be late. It’s my first day, too, you know.”

I shook my head. God only knows how Jules had spun the story of this summer to our friends. She could tell a story like no one else: pauses so well timed, impressions so accurate, gestures so precise that everyone in her orbit was enchanted. My stomach churned at the thought of being on the wrong side of her talent.

Mom leaned over and opened the door herself. “Cricket, go.”

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