Over Her Head by Shelley Bates

Author:Shelley Bates [BATES, SHELLEY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446562164
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2009-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

To: Manga15

From: JohnnysGrrl

5-0 is all confused. No one to arrest.

Keep it tight girlfriend and maybe u wont be the next one.

Hows little bro anyway? He been on any bridges lately?

To: JohnnysGrrl

From: Manga15

Leave me and him alone. Im not saying anything.

I hope u die.

To: Manga15

From: JohnnysGrrl

We all die stupid. Some of us go sooner than others thats all.

Way sooner.

On Sunday, Laurie got her family organized and out the door only ten minutes late. It took all of that extra ten minutes to convince Anna that “total lockdown” did not include church. In fact, her whole attitude toward being grounded was a little off. Instead of complaints and tears and drama in order to wring just one night out or one concession out of Laurie and Colin, she seemed almost happy to stay in her room. She didn’t even complain about not being allowed to watch TV, and if nothing else, that was strange.

But at least Laurie knew where she was every minute. If her cub was safely in the den, then she was in no danger of prowling animals out there in the dark.

Or at least gossiping classmates.

Meanwhile, over the issue of church, Laurie won a Pyrrhic victory. Anna came with them, but she pulled on her sloppiest pants and shirt and ran a brush the absolute minimal number of times through her hair.

At one end of their pew, Rose Silverstein and her mother were already seated. As the Hales, led by Colin, filed in, Mrs. Silverstein and Rose got up and moved a couple of rows back. Laurie ignored them and tried to concentrate on the beauty of the hymns, but even as she lifted her hands in praise, her thoughts whirled like a dust storm on the prairie.

She needed to talk to Colin again about getting Anna into counseling. It just was not normal that a girl who ordinarily took an hour in the bathroom to get her hair and makeup perfect would be seen in public like this—especially if there was a chance that Kyle Edgar would be here, too.

Laurie looked around. There he was, sitting with his mother and the O’Days. She wondered if Janice had done that on purpose, in order to talk to Nancy after the service about the women’s shelter project.

Janice looked up, but Laurie didn’t meet her gaze. Instead, she glanced behind her. Tanya was at the back, alone except for Cammie and Debbie with her family. No Nick. Laurie didn’t know whether to feel relieved about that or not.

Of course she’d be delighted and praise God without ceasing if Nick became a believer. His family had been encouraging him for years, but maybe it would take someone outside the family to wake him up. She just wasn’t quite prepared for it to be Tanya. Because what did she have to keep her in Glendale? Two jobs of a kind that she could pick up anywhere? If Tanya thought she could make Nick fall for her and then up and leave him when the next big idea hit, she had another think coming.

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