So Not Okay by Nancy Rue

Author:Nancy Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2014-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Our whole group walked together to my house after school, except for Mitch. I figured she’d probably been kicked out of school for the rest of her life, especially if Kylie’s starving mother had been brought in. As we hurried through the cold to Sunrise Lane, Ophelia hung back, so Winnie did too, although she kept begging me with her eyes not to be mad at her. I could feel Ophelia’s eyes burning into me as Ginger stuck to my side like Velcro.

It was the longest walk ever.

Lydia had cheese and crackers ready for us and the usual hot chocolate. She looked at the grizzly bear mug Mitch always used and raised an eyebrow at me.

“If you’re looking for Mitch,” Ophelia said, “she got in trouble at school for bullying.”

“That’s not exactly what happened,” I said.

“Fine. I’m a liar.” Ophelia slumped down in her chair and folded her arms and stuck out her chin.

“Does anybody want to bring me up to speed?” Lydia said.

“Not me,” Ginger said. “I don’t even know what’s going on.”

The doorbell rang, and Nestlé barked like a wild thing and I went to see who it was while Winnie and Ophelia filled Ginger in. Through the window in the door, I saw a grizzly bear hairdo.

“It’s Mitch!” I called toward the kitchen.

“Perfect,” Lydia called back.

By the time Mitch made it through Nestlé’s greeting and got out of her jacket and took her cocoa from Lydia, Ophelia obviously couldn’t stand not knowing any longer.

“What happened?” she said. “Did you get expelled?”

But Lydia wouldn’t let Mitch tell that part until she explained what went down in the lunchroom. It was pretty much what Ophelia had described and what I saw with Mr. Jett.

“So he took me to Mrs. Yeats,” Mitch said.

“Who’s Mrs. Yeats?” Lydia said.

“The principal,” Ophelia told her, eyes lit up. She’d obviously forgotten she was pouting. “She is so-o-o strict. She’ll suspend you for chewing gum.”

“Has that ever actually happened?” Ginger said.

Lydia nodded at Mitch. “Moving on . . .”

Mitch, of course, grunted. “She listened to his side of the story and then she asked for mine and I started to tell it and before I was even done he said it wasn’t true and I said then there wasn’t any point in me even finishing and she told me I had an attitude and I needed to change it.”

“That’s it?” Ophelia said.

“No. I said I’d change mine when everybody else changed theirs. She said I could only change mine.”

“And then you got suspended,” Ophelia said.

Jeepers.

“No,” Mitch said again. “I told her I would.”

“Would what?”

“Change my attitude.” Mitch took a sip and wiped the milk off her lip with the side of her hand and looked at Lydia. “I only did all that to see if you were right. And you were.”

“Right about what?”

“About not starting a war by doing worse to them than they do to us. It doesn’t work. So . . . I’m ready to do it your way.”

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