Onyx (Jewels Cafe Book 10) by Melissa Adams

Author:Melissa Adams [Adams, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melissa Adams
Published: 2019-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

11.

Three Little Words

Onyx

THE NEXT FEW WEEKS are a whirlwind of activity as we get our theater back while the Debate Club is away for their regional competition.

I can’t help thinking that I should’ve been competing with them and when we get news that Stone Hill High lost in the finals with both Joe and Brittany losing their debates to a fancy Prep school, I feel vindicated but surprisingly I don’t feel happy.

My new reality is playing Scrooge in the school play, looking after Mom and hanging out with my three hot boyfriends.

I know that looking at my situation from the outside, I look like a lucky little bitch, to say it with my bestie’s choice of words when I told her about my relationship with the ‘three ghosts’.

And really, if I have to be picky, the only thorns in my side are Valentina’s constant put-downs and malicious stares and my own self-doubt.

My self-declared archenemy doesn’t miss any opportunity to try and make me look bad: she’s learned all my lines and at the tiniest mistake I make, she’s quick to correct me.

I know it was her calling the cops that night at Vee as retaliation for not being invited.

I have no proof but her smug look on the Monday after, when she asked Dylan how was the nightclub, told me all I need to know.

And as for my self-doubt, I can’t get it out of my own head that the guys now like me because of that wish and that somehow none of this is real and the other shoe will drop eventually.

I have to give it to Miss Devlin, she chose the right person to play Scrooge, because the fact that Christmas is fast approaching is another stress factor.

Christmas and I have been at odds for years and I keep wondering what horrible things the wretched holiday has got in store for me this year.

I’m lost in these sorts of gloomy thoughts on the day we try on our costumes for the play and I have to try my best to ignore Valentina’s evil smirk while we put on our costumes in the girls changing room.

The room is small and we’re the last girls to try our costumes on.

Hers is a cheerleader outfit, while I’m wearing a black, shimmery ball gown in the opening scene, a simple pair of jeans and a sweater in the daytime scenes, and a white lace nightie with spaghetti straps during the night time scenes when I’m visited by the ghosts.

As soon as I put on the nightie, I know something’s wrong: this is definitely the wrong size.

It must be a size two, so definitely too small for my size six frame: my boobs are spilling almost completely out from the front of my garment and this thing’s so short that it barely covers my butt.

Miss Devlin is standing outside our door waiting impatiently for us to come out and show her how we look.

I’m really embarrassed by the amount of flesh I’m showing and when Miss Devlin urges me to come out, I shout that my costume is the wrong size.

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