Shredded by Karen Avivi

Author:Karen Avivi [Avivi, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780991807932
Publisher: Karen Avivi
Published: 2013-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

When I got back to the room, Alexis squealed when she saw her purple flip-flops on my feet. “I’ve been looking everywhere for those!”

“Sorry. I put on whatever I could find.”

“So, breakfast, huh?” Alexis looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

“With his coach,” I said.

Lauryn zipped her suitcase closed. “Harold Robbins?”

“And?” Alexis prompted.

“Tell us on the way home. We have to be out of here in ten minutes or we pay for another day.” Lauryn threw my suitcase on the bed and stuffed handfuls of my clothes in.

We both helped Alexis get her stuff out of the bathroom so we made the checkout cutoff.

When we were on the road headed home, I told them the whole story, including Coach Robbins wanting me on the team and not wanting me on the team at the same time.

“So you’ll be training with UnnUsual,” Lauryn said. “When’s your first practice?”

“I need to be in Milwaukee a day early.”

“We’ll make sure you’re there,” Alexis said. “This is perfect. With you on the team, I’ll have an in with Oliver. Look.” She showed me the UnnUsual website on her phone and clicked through all the guys’ pictures. Turner was the one with dreadlocks who was often with R.T. and I recognized Flynn because of his black hat and ear gauges. I still thought R.T. was the best-looking one, even though I didn’t want to think about him any more.

“The girl who was riding with them isn’t even here,” I said, clicking around the site. She wasn’t mentioned anywhere. “Robbins didn’t seem thrilled to have girls on the team.”

“Don’t worry about Robbins,” Lauryn told me. “When he sees what you can do he’ll forget you’re a girl.”

Alexis showed me all the updates she’d done to Exquisite, posting Lauryn’s and my results plus a bunch of new pictures. “And I bugged that BMX Real Deal guy about not putting more girls on their site, so he gave me some of his extra footage and said I could put clips of us on Exquisite.”

We alternated drivers so I was the one to pull into my driveway. When I turned off the engine, Alexis insisted she had to go to the bathroom, and Lauryn said she’d go too, so we all went in the house together. I pushed the front door open and dropped my suitcase in the hall.

A huge “Josie is #1” banner stretched across the back wall of the living room.

“Woohoo!” Cheers erupted and people spilled out from behind chairs and the couch.

“Oh my God!” I took a step back and bumped into Alexis behind me.

Leo and Sandra from the bike shop and two of Sean’s friends stood in my living room with my family.

My dad gave me a huge hug and pulled me into the middle of the room. “Congratulations.”

“How slow were you guys driving?” Troy asked. “We expected you an hour ago.”

My mom put down her camera for a second and pulled me close. “We’re so proud of you, honey!”

This was all for me? Whenever a banner had covered the wall it had Troy’s name on it.

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