Snow Lane by Josie Angelini

Author:Josie Angelini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Chapter Seven

Christmastime in my family is sort of a mixed bag.

This year everyone wants me to play Mary in the Nativity play. I don’t know if I want to do it or not, because I like sitting next to my mother when she plays the organ. But when the new priest, Father Joe (he’s super young and in charge of the youth outreach program my brother is a part of, and my brother is always talking about him) asks me to read the lines with him, I can see how excited he is about me being Mary, so I agree.

Just like that, I’m Mary. I have to go to rehearsal and stuff, but it’s right before choir practice, so I can still turn pages for my mom.

Everyone keeps saying how good I am. I don’t know how anyone can tell, with me only having three lines, but after a couple of rehearsals, I realize I like being told I’m good at something. And Father Joe keeps saying how important what I’m doing is. Father Joe has this really hyper way of talking that’s still cool, because he’s way younger than Mrs. Weiss and he uses words like awesome without sounding like he’s trying too hard. He keeps talking like this is my destiny.

And then I think—maybe it is! After all, Carl Sagan was kind of an actor. Well, not really an actor, but he did have a TV show, so maybe I should, too. I haven’t figured out all the details yet, but I’ve got time. There are still months and months of school left.

I’m so caught up in all the churchy stuff I have to do that I totally forget about the exams we have to take right before we go home for the long winter break. I realize my mistake as soon as I stroll into Mrs. Weiss’s class. Everyone is rereading their textbooks, and it hits me. I didn’t remember. Usually I don’t need to remember to study because I don’t need to study, but I can already tell that the tests this year are going to be different than they used to be. These tests are going to be bigger than any test I’ve ever taken before.

I get cold all over and then I get really hot. I wander to my seat up front with Jimmy Collins, wishing like crazy that today isn’t what I think it is. Jimmy looks at me.

“What’s wrong with you?” he asks.

“Are exams today?” I ask.

Jimmy sighs, and I realize I said that a little louder than I should have. I look around. Pretty much the whole classroom is looking back at me.

Okay, there are only eight of us in Mrs. Weiss’s class, but still, Jordan looks at me, and he hasn’t looked at me in months.

Now I’m more sad than I am scared. And I’m not sad because I know that if Jordan and I were still friends, he’d have reminded me to study yesterday, because he knows I always forget stuff like this.

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