Pink & Green is the New Black by Lisa Greenwald

Author:Lisa Greenwald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2014-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Lucy’s tip for surviving eighth grade:

Try not to obsess about things you have no control over.

It feels like I have to walk through humid, smoky air for the rest of the weekend. In reality, it’s freezing and snowing off and on, but I can’t seem to move gracefully. I feel stuck. Like I’m pushing through walls of thick cement.

On Sunday morning I wake up and the first thing I do is check my phone, hoping for something from Yamir. A conversation at a party can’t be the end. Right? I mean, there has to be more to our story.

But Yamir hasn’t gotten in touch.

I’m staring at my phone, willing it to ring or buzz or something—and it actually does.

But it’s not Yamir. It’s Claudia.

“Where have you been, Claud?” I shriek.

“Oh, Luce. I don’t even know where to start.”

“What?” I immediately assume some crazy person has kidnapped her and locked her in a basement for weeks.

“I’ll explain soon,” she says.

“Just start now. I’ve been so worried.”

“My phone’s dying,” she tells me. “Alert Mom and Grandma. I’ll be there in an hour.”

She’ll be here in an hour?

Great. Now I have the job of telling Mom and Grandma that something’s wrong with Claudia.

I lie in bed for a few more minutes. Maybe if I go back to sleep, I’ll wake up and this will all be a dream. Or more of a nightmare, I guess.

But no luck. I’m up.

Downstairs, Mom and Grandma are still sitting at the kitchen table sharing a New York Times, a carafe of coffee, and a basket of homemade blueberry muffins. If I wasn’t brokenhearted about Yamir and freaked out about Claudia, I would be 100 percent in love with this picture.

“Good morning, sleepyhead,” Mom says, pulling out a chair for me.

Ever since the spa opened and business has turned around, Mom and Grandma take Sundays off. They don’t take it for granted either—they always make special breakfasts and lounge in their pajamas for as long as they can.

“What’s wrong?” Grandma says as soon as she sees me. Either I’m a bad actress or Grandma knows me better than anyone else. She always seems to sense when something is up.

“Well. Where to start?”

They both look at me.

“I guess I should let you know that Claudia will be here in an hour.”

“What? Oh Lord!” Grandma holds her head. “She flunked out of school. I knew it, Jane. She has not been serious enough about her studies.”

In a way I feel better. Maybe that’s all it is. I was thinking something much worse, like she’d been arrested.

“Maybe it’s good news, Ma. Ever think of that?”

My mom does have a point. Does Claudia play the lottery? Or maybe she won some kind of award. Who knows.

Grandma shakes her head. “I doubt it. Good news is usually first delivered over the telephone. And besides—why is she spending money on a flight?”

“Ma! Enough. We’re doing fine with money now. You sound like someone who lived through the Depression!”

They go back and forth like this for a few minutes while I pick at a blueberry muffin.

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