Pretty Amy by Lisa Burstein

Author:Lisa Burstein
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: young adult, ya, contemporary, romance, drugs, issue, lisa burstein, pretty amy, parrot, prom, alcohol, jail, trial, portland, oregon, jewish, christian, religion, parents, family
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2012-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

I came home to find Dick Simon sitting at the dinner table with my parents. He was in my seat, which bothered me a lot less than the fact that he was in my house. Forget about coming home to find one of your teachers sitting with your parents at the dinner table with a bib around her neck. Finding your lawyer is much, much worse.

I was hoping he hadn’t been briefed on the Mrs. Mortar situation and wasn’t there to tell me that not only was I up on drug charges, I had been accused of attempted murder, too.

My mother was in a pink-and-white-checkered half apron, and she was at the stove stirring a pot full of something I was sure she hadn’t made. She never wore an apron and she never cooked. She must have called the caterer. Not a caterer, the caterer. She used him so often he was referred to as the. That night, she was “making” her famous heated-up whatever she’d ordered, and then everyone could rave about how exceptional she was at dialing a phone and how knowledgeable she was about the mysterious world of temperature.

Whatever. It meant this little visit had not been impromptu. They had invited Dick Simon over for a reason.

“No need to get all dressed up for me,” he said, laughing.

“You’re late,” my mother said, turning away from the stove to look at me. “What on earth?”

I was still wearing that disgusting dress. I pulled it over my head and threw it in the trash. I didn’t really want to get into everything that had happened, so I took a seat at the table and said, “I made a new friend.”

“Was it a transvestite?” my mother asked.

Dick turned red and got that look on his face that a little boy gets when someone says the word penis.

She huffed and went back to stirring; it smelled like she was burning whatever food we were eating. My mother can even mess up food that’s been cooked for her.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a transvestite as long as it’s a law-abiding transvestite,” my father said.

“I guess anyone would be better,” my mother said.

I picked up the fork from the left side of the plate and ran the tines along my lips, trying to keep in what I wanted to say about Lila and Cassie.

“Amy, your teeth,” my father said, grabbing the fork from my hand.

“Dick, you saw those girls in court. You didn’t even have to hear them speak to know they were bad news.”

“Nope,” he said. “I could spot them from a mile away.”

“Not a care in the world for the rules they’re breaking,” she said, shaking her head. “I think I saw that Cassie girl spit on the floor in the courtroom.”

“We’ve all been arrested. We’ll all be punished,” I said.

I was just like they were. Why couldn’t everyone understand that?

“We’ll see,” my mother said. It was her way of saying that someone would get back at Cassie and Lila for what they had done to me.

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