Read All About It! by Rachel Wise

Author:Rachel Wise
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

Chapter 9

GIRL GENIUS STRIKES AGAIN

I was up early the next day, sifting through my usual news haunts and checking my e-mail. There was one from Mr. Trigg, without anything in the subject line.

I clicked on it and read it. It said, “Samantha, hello. How is the new column coming along? I’d like to see a draft by Tuesday. Mr. T.”

I gulped. A draft? I hadn’t even decided for sure on the question yet and here it was, Friday! I slid out the packet of letters from behind my desk, where it was hiding. There were seven in total because I’d picked up four more yesterday.

Some were a little too heavy to deal with (like the bad home-life guy), especially for the first column of the year. Some were dumb (a girl who can’t remember her locker code). The one that kept drawing me back was the one from the guy who had a crush on his best friend’s crush. I knew it would be a superpopular topic, and I wanted to lead the year with something hot. But what advice would I give? I couldn’t even figure out my own crush!

I clicked back on Mr. Trigg’s e-mail and hit reply. “Okay,” I typed. That was all. I pressed send and bit my lip. As a total spazz in the romance department, I was really unqualified to answer this question. But whom could I ask for advice?

There was a knock on the door. “Mom told me to make sure you’re up!”

Bingo!

I quickly closed my computer and stashed my envelope of letters, then I bounced over to the door and flung it open. Allie looked surprised to see me all bright-eyed so early in the morning. She had obviously assumed I was still asleep.

“Allie,” I said seriously. “I have a question for you. It’s . . . uh . . . it’s part of something . . . something . . . we’re working on in the new curriculum!” Eureka! Girl Genius Strikes Again, I thought. I smiled my most winning smile.

Allie looked at me suspiciously and folded her arms. “Okay . . .”

“What should someone do when he has a crush on the same girl his best friend likes?” I asked.

Allie’s eyebrows knit together. “This is for school?”

“Yeah.” I nodded. “It’s . . . like a role-playing thing in our humanities class.”

“Okay. Well, I know someone that that happened to . . .”

I knew I’d asked the right person! “And?”

“Well, there’s really no right or wrong way to proceed in this situation,” said Allie.

Wait, what? “But I need a concrete answer, fact based, you know? I have to, like, pick a side. Go for it or back off, buddy. Which one is it?”

Allie shrugged. “It’s not that easy. You have to really look at all the factors. How important is the friendship? Is the crush really worth it?” Just then her phone buzzed and she answered.

Ugh! “Hello? We are talking here!” I said, annoyed.

Allie pressed the phone to the side of her head and put her finger in her other ear to block me out.

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