Princess 04 - Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

'I did?' My mom sounded bewildered. And why shouldn't she? She clearly did not remember the

conversation she'd had

with me about my date with Michael . . . primarily of course because she'd been dead to the world during

it. Still, she didn't need to know that. What was important was that she was made to feel as guilty as

possible for the heinous crime she had committed. 'Oh, honey. I am so sorry. Well, you're just going to

have to cancel Michael. He'll understand.'

'Mom,' I cried. 'He will not! This was supposed to be our first date! You've got to do something!'

'Well,' my mom said, sounding kind of wry. 'I'm a little surprised to hear you're so unhappy about it,

sweetheart. You know, considering your whole thing about not wanting to chase Michael. Cancelling

your first date with him would definitely fall

under that category.'

'Very funny, Mom,' I said. 'But Jane wouldn't cancel her first date with Mr. Rochester. She just wouldn't

call him all the time beforehand, or let him get to second base during it.'

'Oh,' my mom said.

'Look,' I said. 'This is serious. You've got to get me out of this stupid ball!'

But all my mom said was that she'd talk to my dad about it. I knew what that meant, of course. No way

was I getting out

of this ball. My dad has never in his life forsaken duty for love.

So now I am sitting here (doing nothing, as usual, because I am neither gifted nor talented), knowing that

at some point or another I am going to have to tell Michael our date is cancelled. Only how? How am I

going to do it? And what if he's so

mad he never asks me out again?

Worse, what if he asks some other girl to see Star Wars with him? I mean, some girl who knows all the

lines you're suppose

to shout at the screen during the movie. Like when Ben Kenobi goes, 'Obi Wan. Now that's a name I

haven't heard in a long time,' you're supposed to shout, 'How long?' and then Ben goes, 'A very long

time.'

There must be a million girls besides me who know about this. Michael could ask any one of them

instead of me and have

a perfecdy wonderful time. Without me.

Lilly is bugging to find out what's wrong. She keeps passing me notes, because they are fumigating the

teachers' lounge, so

Mrs. Hill is in here today, pretending to grade papers from her fourth period computer class. But really

she is ordering

things from a Garnet Hill catalogue. I saw it beneath her gradebook.

Is your dad super-sick? Lilly's latest note reads. Are you going to have to fly back to Genovia?

No, I wrote back.

Is it the cancer? Lilly wants to know. Did he have a recurrence?

No, I wrote back.

Well, what is it, then? Lilly's handwriting was getting spiky, a sure sign she was becoming impatient with

me.

Why won't you tell me?

Because, I wanted to scrawl back, in big capital letters, the truth will lead to the imminent demise of

my

romantic relationship with your brother, and I couldn't bear that! Don't you see I can't live

without him?

But I couldn't write that.

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