Oopsy Daisy by Lauren Myracle

Author:Lauren Myracle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: 2012-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

and drags her to Ms. Perez’s room. “We have to gather information about her so we can set her up with Mr. Emerson,” Yaz tells her.

“We do?” Milla says.

“And you’re better at girl stuff than I am. You know you are. And out of all of us, you’re the only one who has any experience with, you know, romance.”

Milla bites her lower lip.

“Milla, I mean that in a good way!” Yaz says. She stops in the hall and puts her hands on Milla’s shoulders. “Max is really nice, and you are, too. And you make each other happy, right?”

Milla hesitates. “Um … I guess?”

Yaz leans closer and presses her forehead against Milla’s. Now Milla has one huge eye instead of two regular size eyes. Yaz assumes she does, too, and that eventually the googliness of it will make Milla giggle, or at least smile.

“Mill-a,” she says, stretching it out. “You. Are. Allowed. To be. Happy. Okay?”

Milla stares at Yaz with her big, blue, and slightly wobbly eye. She has yet to smile or giggle.

“Are you still thinking about … you know?” Yasaman says, referring to Modessa, Quin, and Elena. She doesn’t want to say their names out loud, because as far as Yaz can tell, talking about them is what made Milla sad to start with.

It was during lunch. When the FFFs first sat down to eat, Milla was downright giddy. She’d spent all of morning break with Max, and her words bubbled out of her as she shared the details with Yaz and Violet and Katie-Rose.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” Katie-Rose interrupted. “Only I think what happened to me is more important, so will you hush and let me tell it?”

It wasn’t the nicest way to change the subject, but that’s Katie-Rose. And when she told the story of Coach Wolff and the circle game, it did sober everyone up … until Katie-Rose got to the part where she called Modessa out for being a big jerk, that is.

“That’ll teach Modessa not to get all up in my grill,” Katie-Rose huffed, and Yasaman giggled. She tried to turn the giggle into a cough, but it didn’t fool anyone, and Katie-Rose got even huffier.

“Why do you find this funny?” she demanded. “This isn’t funny. She got all up in my grill because I refuse to be a clone, and I could have died, and you’re laughing?!”

“Sorry, sorry,” Yasaman said. “It’s just”—she paused, thinking back to something she’d heard her cousin Hulya say and wanting to get it right—“I didn’t know you were so gangsta, yo!”

Katie-Rose did a spit take, making chocolate milk spurt from her nose. Violet grinned and shook her head. But Milla lowered her gaze and grew still. She was quiet throughout the rest of lunch.

In the hall outside Ms. Perez’s room, Yasaman pulls back from Milla, just slightly. She lets go of Milla’s shoulders and slides her fingers down until she reaches Milla’s hands, which she takes. In her head, she tries out various questions: Is it because Modessa

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