Speed Demon by LYNN ERIN

Author:LYNN, ERIN [LYNN, ERIN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Monday. Always a less than exciting day. But this was Monday the day after Halloween. The traditional Day of the Dead. And in this case, day of my dead social career.

It was—and I know this totally sounds overdramatic, but really, if you had been there, you would agree—the single worst day of my entire life.

No one was talking to me. No one. Not even friends I’d had for years, not even random weirdos who normally look for anyone to glom on to. I was like bad breath. Moldy cheese. Acne. Teen pregnancy. Everyone was trying to avoid me. Weren’t we too old for this? Hadn’t we left all this clique crap behind us back in middle school? Hadn’t we learned not to judge until we knew the whole story?

Of course, the whole story was that I had in fact made out with Levi in my baby sister’s bedroom at a Halloween party I had thrown for the purpose of getting my best friend together with Levi and to which I had invited primarily my boyfriend’s friends, resulting in total humiliation for cheated-on boyfriend and utter devastation for best friend.

Blech. I wouldn’t talk to me either.

I spent the day in silence, moving from class to class, feeling like I was going to throw up as people whispered behind my back, avoided my eyes, and gave lame excuses why they couldn’t sit with me at lunch or couldn’t walk with me to English or math or whatever the way they usually did.

“Ohmigod! Like I totally forgot I have to pick up a flyer for the French trip right now. I’ll catch up with you later, Kenzie.”

Uh-huh.

Or “Wow, um, I have to go talk to my counselor.”

Because anyone ever willingly does that.

Others like Darla said it straight out. “I can’t talk to you because Reggie is best friends with Adam.”

But the best was Madison’s: “I’m allergic to your two-faced-ness.”

Ouch.

Literature came to life and actually made sense to me for the first time ever. I was freaking Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter , shunned and ashamed, and it sucked. Royally.

I started imagining the crowds actually parting as I walked through the halls, determined not to get any of my moral dirt on them and soil their pristine selves and souls. Hey, I was a theater junkie, remember? It wasn’t a stretch for my imagination to go there, especially since I was lonely as my day of silence rolled on. And picturing myself in costume, on a stage, was the only way I could get through the day.

It was bad enough that I had ruined my relationship with Adam, but Isabella had been my best friend for five years. We did everything together. She had been there through puberty and sleepovers and crushes and bad auditions and I couldn’t believe the cold look she shot me at lunch when I gave her a smile and tried to talk to her. I knew what I had done was totally wrong, but she had told me Levi wasn’t interested in her, so I wasn’t exactly sure why she was mad.

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