Rebelwing by Andrea Tang

Author:Andrea Tang [Tang, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2020-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

10

DOUBLE DATE

Anabel and Alex covered all four tickets to the No Man’s Land weekend, which did a complicated series of things to Pru’s feelings. “You could probably write it off as a work-study expense and get the tickets covered by Coalition money,” Pru told Anabel.

The other girl waved her off gently, like Pru had just suggested writing off a food vendor’s pack of fries as a work-study expense. “Sure,” said Anabel, “but then we’d have to fill out, like, five million pages of paperwork. Besides,” her eyebrows climbed, “are you sure your mum would sign off on a boozy beach weekend, good cause or no?”

At that, Pru shut her mouth. She’d made good on Mama’s demands for weekly check-ins on her progress with Rebelwing, but blowing off homework for a weekend to help her friends spy on a bunch of evil arms dealers at a ritzy shoreside getaway probably fell outside the parentally approved parameters of acceptable internship activities.

“Thought so.” Anabel shrugged, then in an aside, meticulously off the cuff: “Don’t sweat the money, Pru-Wu.”

Pru knew, in a clinical sort of way, that Anabel, Alex, and most of Pru’s other school friends weren’t scholarship kids. Moments like these, though, the disparity between them still managed to sneak up on Pru. She remembered what Alex had said that day on the training fields: Your mother makes money from art, and you still attend prep school. You’re bourgeois too.

Fair enough, Pru conceded to the Alex in her head, jaw twitching. But there’s “moderately successful author’s daughter” bourgeois, and then there’s “throw money at No Man’s Land like it’s pocket change” bourgeois. Completely different species, dude.

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