Never Trust a Gemini by Freja Nicole Woolf

Author:Freja Nicole Woolf [Woolf, Freja Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781529513783
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2023-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

IT’S OKAY TO LIKE A GEMINI IF…

They write a SONG with you?

They kiss you under a star-speckled sky??

They kiss you REALLY, REALLY WELL under a star-speckled sky???

They kiss you REALLY, AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFULLY under a star-speckled sky and then walk you ALL THE WAY HOME and say, “Sweet dreams… Not too sweet though, or there’s nothing to look forward to.”

WHO SAYS THAT????

It’s okay to like a Gemini if the Gemini is Morgan Delaney.

School is utterly useless to me now. I barely take in a word all morning. It’s the second-to-last week before the Christmas holidays and, in younger years, this would mean movies and games and no real lessons, but in the chain gang that is Year Ten, you get no such luxury.

Zanna keeps nudging me like she thinks I’m asleep, probably because I keep smiling and staring out of windows, looking at the sky, the clouds, reliving my first real kiss over and over again. I get funny looks all day, like I’m wearing a tutu or something.

(I’m not, just to be clear. Wearing a tutu to school is something I’d never do.)

I’ve told no one about the kiss, not even Zanna. I don’t want to share it yet; it’s my memory. If only I could put it in a jar… I’d store it on a shelf and take it out every day and open the jar just a crack to smell the scent of the moment inside… It would keep me going through my very darkest days, like when Mum tries to cook a “family roast” on Sundays.

I’ll never get tired of my first real kiss. I need to write poetry again, just to express myself, release the emotions! Who knew the effects of kissing could last so long? One kiss and I’m giddy for days! If it’s like this every time, how will I ever get married, hold down a job, live a wholesome life? I’m amazed everyone isn’t stumbling about blindly all the time, drunk on the beauty of kissing someone so wonderfully as I kissed Morgan Delaney…

“Cat, what the actual brain clot do you keep grinning about?” Siobhan car-crashes into my thoughts and I wipe the smile off my face. I mean, she’s right: I have been grinning a lot today. Yesterday as well. And last night. And in the car with Mum. And mid-zone-out, while Luna talks gibberish. But really, can you blame me?! I’ve been KISSED!

“I’m not smiling!” I protest. “I don’t know what you mean.”

“You look like that woman on the front of the raisin boxes,” Siobhan replies. “Gazing into the freaking sun. If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’d necked someone for the first time.”

That gets me highly nervy-nervous. Around the picnic table, Kenna and Habiba instantly look curious, like curious cockatoos. Gooseberries galore, does Siobhan have to be so dangerously perceptive?! Where’s Zanna when you need a smooth change of subject? She did say, but I think I spaced out … playing Animal Crossing or singing Polish hymns, I should think.

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