Sorry, Not Sorry: A Young Adult Novel by Rachel Shane

Author:Rachel Shane [Shane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twinstar Press
Published: 2017-07-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

HARPER

One and a Half Years Ago

Harper clutched her clipboard against her chest, wiping sweat off her brow as she stepped over a pile of wood and stared at the empty parking lot. Her mouth moved in a silent prayer. Please come. Please come. Even the three people she could count on being there: Brett, Poe, and her brother Jackson, hadn’t shown up. Jackson refused to come an hour early with her, claiming he’d already given up too much of his Spring Break for this crap. His words. But Harper explained to him time and again that spending his week off building a house for Homes for Charity was for a good cause. And it would look good on his college applications.

But of course, organizing the whole thing would look even better on hers. Not that that was her main motive. Helping someone in need was. Of course.

Her soccer skills might set her apart on the field, but she still needed to find away to set herself apart from the other B-average applicants.

Everyone was supposed to be here twenty minutes ago but the only people besides Harper were the officials and construction workers from Homes for Charity. Hot sun beat down on her shoulders and glinted off the metal tools piled on the grass. The plot of land they’d acquired stretched an acre deep with thick trees swaying too far in the distance to provide shade. Clear blue skies loomed above, void of any clouds. Harper nibbled her inner cheek. She’d spent the last month painstakingly organizing this event. She’d even braved the terrible prospect of public speaking to encourage students to sign-up during an assembly two weeks ago. A few of her soccer teammates claimed they were thinking about giving up their spring break for hard labor, but thinking about it was just code for no, hell no.

Her soccer teammates tolerated her during practice but never made plans with her afterward. The people who identified her as Poe’s friend would glance at her with looks of either disgust or awe, probably wondering how she could stand so close to a ticking time bomb. The ones that dismissed her as Brett’s friend looked at Harper as if she might break out at any second and tattle on them for whatever unimportant thing they were doing wrong. But she was neither Poe nor Brett. She was in the middle. Somewhat bad, somewhat good, but also her own person. And this was her way to prove it. To organize something good for the community but with plenty of opportunity for “bad” in the form of after parties each night.

Finally, an unfamiliar car swung into the street, tires crunching slowly over the gravel road. Harper’s heart thumped and she squinted at the prospect of not being a total failure. The car parked a few feet away and Connor Cunningham loped out, shaking out his blond hair and stretching his arms over his head so his t-shirt rode just a little too high, revealing the curved hipbones that descended into the depths of his pants.

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