Never Said by Carol Lynch Williams

Author:Carol Lynch Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Blink
Published: 2015-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Not that much more before, a few months before the haircut, before Annie started gaining weight, Mom and Dad and I sat in an audience of more than three hundred people. Dad had invited his whole office. Paul and Emma Jean and David were there, with their families. Everyone wore an Annie: Queen of the Night T-shirt to support her. (She played that aria on the piano.)

My parents clapped like crazy when she won Miss Springfield and won a scholarship to boot. She dipped her head to accept a glittery crown. Her face was bright. She didn’t cry like some winners do, but pumped her fist in the air. Laughed. Yelled into the microphone, “Mom! Dad! Sarah! I love you!”

Melanie was runner up. She laughed too. Grabbed Annie in a huge hug, and they almost danced. Then Annie waved to all those people like she meant it.

“Look at her,” Dad said. “That’s my girl.”

“Our girl,” Mom said.

“You could be a winner too, Sarah,” Dad said. Then he was cheering for Annie again.

I was hot with emotion. Thrilled for Annie. But burning from the inside out. Had my dad really said that? We both knew I’d never stand on a stage like that. Ever. No matter what Dad said, I couldn’t do what Annie did.

I didn’t want to.

No matter how much he wanted me to be like Annie, I was just Sarah.

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