Rock My World by Lauraine Henderson

Author:Lauraine Henderson [Henderson, Lauraine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2019-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

J ulianna opened the box of high school memorabilia. Waves of memories crashed around her with every report card, old assignments with an "A" circled at the top, show programs, and piles of notes from both J.R. and Stacy. She had almost burned the notes, but at the last minute, she decided to keep all of it as a reminder of her poor choices. Now, she was glad she kept them. Although the notes from Stacy weren't worth anything to her anymore, those from J.R. were now very precious. At the bottom of the shallow box sat the old yearbook. She rubbed her hand across the front, a little nervous about opening the pages of pictures that would bring the past to life.

"Do you remember where you wrote your message?" she asked.

J.R. blinked as though he'd been deep in thought. "Uh, not really, but it shouldn't take too long to flip through the pages, right?"

Sitting down next to J.R., Julianna snuggled up to his side and set the book down on the table. Page by page they looked over the pictures of former classmates and teachers, laughing at some of the crazy stunts the photographer had captured on film. There weren't very many comments. Julianna never had a lot of friends, but in the moment of graduation, classmates who never reached out during the year—except for the possibility of group assignments—pretend they were always there for each other. The typical "have a great summer" and "on to better things" accompanied "you were always nice to me" and "hope you enjoy college." The surprise sadness that Julianna felt for missing out on getting to know some people better shook her up.

Just before the class groups, J.R. pointed to a place on the page with a bunch of letters and numbers. "Here it is."

"See, it's just random letters and numbers," she said.

"Not so," he explained. "The first part is a series of letters I put in a previous note. I figured you would recognize it. Then, the last part, the letters represent a word and the number represents the page where that word is found. I highlighted the word on that page so you would know which word I meant."

"I'm not following you."

"Look, let's go through it together."

He scooted closer, and Julianna felt like she was unlocking some big mysterious treasure.

"Okay, the first letters are I-W-L-Y-F. Do you remember me writing that before?"

Julianna pulled out the bundle of notes from the box.

"You saved all my notes?"

"Yes." She didn't want to admit she had once thought to burn them or why she kept them.

"Wow. I'm sorry to admit I didn't save yours."

"It's okay. You're a guy."

J.R. grimaced. "Okay. Can you find where I wrote those letters before?"

She pulled out the notes dated closer to prom. The first one didn't have the same letters, but the second one did.

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