Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

Author:C.B. Lee [Lee, C.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisexual Romance, Lgbt, Multicultural & Interracial, superheroes, young adult
ISBN: 9781945053047
Publisher: Duet Books
Published: 2016-09-08T15:01:05+00:00

Ch.8...

Brendan, who usually reads at the table, looks up from his DED and peers curiously around his holobook with the projected text flickering on his face. He blinks at Abby. “Who’re you?”

“Abby Jones,” Abby says. “I’m friends with Jess, from school.”

Brendan scrunches up his face. “Are you a new student?”

Abby takes the plate of vegetables and tofu from Li Hua. “No, been attending AHHS since freshman year.”

“So why are you friends now?” Brendan asks. “Jess only has had two friends since freshman year. If you’ve gone to the same school, you knew each other, so why start being friends now?”

Jess looks at her plate and wishes she could disappear.

“Brendan, stop being rude,” Victor says. “People can start being friends any time they want. When I was in M—college, there were quite a few people I didn’t start talking to until two years into the program. It’s perfectly normal.”

“Thanks, Dad,” Jess says.

“Well, I didn’t know Jess until we started AP English together this year,” Abby says. “That’s all.”

“Ah, what classes are you taking?” Li Hua asks.

Abby rattles off her schedule, which sounds startlingly similar—just exchange volleyball for tennis and she’d be another Claudia. AP everything, including Student Leadership, the elective for student government.

“Oh, you’re so involved!” Li Hua says. “You should encourage Jess to try for something; she’s never really shown more than a passing interest in sports or any extracurriculars.”

“That’s because I didn’t like any of them,” Jess says, picking at the vegetables on her plate.

“But you come to the volleyball games!” Abby says. She knits her eyebrows. “I’ve seen you in the stands a lot.”

“Oh—you noticed?” Jess says. Hope flutters in her chest, a fragile and new thing. It could be just friendship, but Abby noticed her even before they started working together. She likes spending time with Jess; she stayed for dinner.

“Well, aside from the parents and the friends, I mean, the prelim games don’t really draw a lot of attention, so it’s not like I wouldn’t see you,” Abby says. “Emma is on the team, though. That makes sense, that you’re really supportive.”

Jess nods, eager for a way out. Emma laughed at her when she first started going to all the games; she told her that the pre-season games were probably going to be pretty boring, but Jess wanted to go.

Brendan laughs. “Jess and sports? Never.”

Jess colors. She’s not bad in P.E.; she just gets bored easily. She does the assigned exercise at school because she has to, but she’s never figured out the whole team thing. And she’s not good with hand-eye coordination.

“Um, well, student elections are up soon if you wanna run for anything. I think pretty much any position other than president and vice would be easy. You’d only run against one person, probably someone who already held that position. Or you can do student affairs, that’s a position,” Abby says. “It’s really easy, winning the election if you’re the only one running, and the whole responsibility thing isn’t bad either. You get a whole period with all the other officers to plan the school dances and stuff.

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