Sisterhood 3: Girls In Pants by Ann Brashares

Author:Ann Brashares
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780375843198
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2007-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

Hey, you beautiful girls!

My dad just sent me a pile of stuff from Brown.

My roommate’s name is Aisha Lennox. Doesn’t that sound cool?

I’m gonna live with her. We’re gonna know her. How weird is that?

Bee

Lena thought the drawing of Effie would be the easy one. She didn’t dread it. She didn’t overprepare. She sauntered in. Lena was not a saunterer, and for good reason, she decided. She always ended up regretting it.

“Where do you want to be?” Lena asked. “Your room? Your bed? Someplace else?”

“Um.” Effie was painting her toenails. “Can you just do it here?” She was sitting on the floor in front of the TV in the den. Some reality show was blaring. Effie had her chin resting on her knee and was giving full attention to her toenail, as though it were one of the more demanding things she’d ever grappled with.

“I guess,” Lena said. “Do you mind if I turn the TV off?”

“Leave it on,” Effie said. “I won’t watch.”

Lena didn’t question this. She had an instinct that bossing your model around was no way to get her to loosen up. No matter how stupid she was being.

Lena settled on a profile. Effie’s knees bent, her chin down, her toes flexed. She started sketching.

Effie was no Valia. She moved around as though modeling for Lena’s picture wasn’t even on her to-do list.

“Sheesh, Ef. Can you hold still?”

Effie flashed her a look. She went back to her toenails.

Lena tried. She really did. It was hard to draw a moving hand. Lena let it blur. It was hard to draw someone’s character when they kept their face turned away. She tried to suggest the resistance in Effie’s pose. It was the only thing that felt true.

And then Lena had to ask herself, why was Effie resisting so hard? It was true they’d been missing each other this summer. They’d both gotten jobs early. They’d both spent as much time away from the house as possible. Was her relationship with Effie another casualty of the Valia debacle?

Had it gone more wrong than Lena knew?

“Effie?”

“What?” Effie snapped, still not turning her head.

Lena’s mouth seemed to work a little better with a charcoal in her hand. She opened it. “Ef, I feel like you don’t want this to work. Like you’re mad at me.”

Effie rolled her eyes. She made a show of blowing dry the shiny pink polish on her big toe. “Why do you think that?”

“Because you won’t look at me. You won’t sit still.”

If Effie had been Lena and Lena had been Effie, this could have taken all day. But luckily, Effie was Effie. When she finally turned, her face was full of expression.

“Maybe I don’t want you to go to art school.”

Lena put down her pad. “Why not?” She couldn’t help showing her astonishment. She always just assumed that Effie sided with her in any struggle against her parents, just as she always sided with Effie, even when Effie was wrong. Did Effie actually agree with her parents

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