Sass & Serendipity by Ziegler Jennifer

Author:Ziegler, Jennifer [Ziegler, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375896811
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-07-11T22:00:00+00:00

Daphne couldn’t keep still. She had begun pacing the living room as soon as Sheri had dropped her off a half hour before, and she was still at it. At this rate she’d be wearing a deep trench in the new carpet before dusk.

As jumpy as she felt physically, her mind was even more frenzied. She wanted to forget what she’d seen, but she couldn’t. It was as if that horrible image she’d glimpsed after school had been scorched into her corneas.

She’d almost missed it. She’d been sitting in the passenger seat of Sheri’s Outback, zonked from practice, and had just happened to glance out the window. That was when she spied Luke and some of the other guys heading into the parking lot from the basketball court. Lynette, who hadn’t left yet, had run right up to Luke. Daphne could see her slinking around in his space, as if she were crooning a torch song right into his ear. Then Sheri had made the turn and she’d lost sight of them.

For a while Daphne just sat there, only half hearing Sheri try to sing along to some hip-hop tune, unable to accept what she’d seen. Then, when she’d recovered from the shock, she had wrestled with the impulse to grab the steering wheel and turn the car around herself.

Only she hadn’t. And now she was stuck at home. And Luke was who knew where, possibly with Lynette, doing who knew what. Daphne told herself over and over that he’d never go for Lynette, but each time she found it more difficult to believe.

She sat down on the couch, grabbed the remote, and clicked on the TV. A cartoon came blaring on, all bright colors and silly sound effects. But her mind couldn’t follow it. So she stood back up and resumed her laps around the room. Her limbs felt revved up and her eyes kept darting around as if searching for something. It was as if her own body were urging her to take some action. But what?

A knock sounded on the front door and Daphne’s feet left the floor for a split second. Her brain was so focused on Luke that she felt sure it was him, with a bouquet of wildflowers and a rehearsed, ultraromantic speech asking her to prom.

She raced to the door and flung it open, and there, smiling over a big brown grocery sack, stood Mule.

“Oh,” she said.

His grin faded as he registered the disappointment in her voice. “Expecting somebody?” he asked.

“No,” she mumbled. “Come on in.” She pressed herself against the doorjamb and made a halfhearted welcoming motion toward the living room. As he stepped past her, she glanced hopefully about the yard—but there was no one else around.

Mule went straight for the dining room table and started unpacking the bag, pulling out two two-liter bottles of Dr Pepper and a bag of Funyuns. “Is Gabby here?” he asked.

“She’s not back from work yet,” Daphne said. “But it shouldn’t take her very long to get home since she’s got Mom’s car.

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