Starcrossed by Brenda Hiatt

Author:Brenda Hiatt [Hiatt, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940618043
Google: tEdVnwEACAAJ
Amazon: B00HYQJNH4
Goodreads: 19548182
Publisher: Brenda Hiatt
Published: 2014-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

On the bus home, Molly, Bri and Deb were all determined to get me to that night’s scrimmage somehow, though if I couldn’t be with Rigel, I didn’t much care. Already my Rigel-deprivation headache was creeping back.

Because I’d promised, as soon as Aunt Theresa got home, I asked if I could go. And of course she said no.

“Have you forgotten you’re grounded, Marsha?” she asked, pointing me toward the laundry room. “Helping Molly O’Gara with homework is one thing, but going out with your friends to a sporting event is completely different. You’ll stay in and iron those curtains you washed yesterday.”

I didn’t bother to argue.

I was just finishing the first curtain when the doorbell rang, and a moment later I heard Mrs. O’Gara’s voice. As always, aunt Theresa sounded delighted to see her. They went into the living room and I couldn’t hear them anymore. I kept ironing. Twenty minutes later, when I was nearly done, I heard the front door close and then Aunt Theresa’s footsteps.

“Because it means so much to Sean and Molly O’Gara, I’ve decided you can go to the game tonight, on the condition you sit with the O’Garas,” she announced.

“Really?” I stared. This was twice in two days Mrs. O’Gara had convinced her to lighten up! I stopped myself in time from commenting on her complete one-eighty. “Um, thanks, Aunt Theresa.”

She sniffed. “Just see you keep your distance from that Stuart boy. The O’Garas will pick you up in an hour. Finish what you’re doing and make yourself a sandwich for dinner.”

She walked away and I ironed faster, thinking hard. Aunt Theresa had only known Mrs. O’Gara for three weeks, but in that time she’d started acting completely out of character—always right after talking to Mrs. O. This could not be coincidence.

When Molly had talked about the Royal fine having powers of persuasion I’d discounted, since she’d been talking about me, but the O’Garas were Royals, too. If that’s what Mrs. O was doing, I definitely needed to figure out how to use it myself!

Of course, Molly seemed to think I had used it, when I’d stopped Rigel and Sean from fighting last week. And again today? I certainly hadn’t tried to channel any special “power,” but both times they’d backed off more readily than I’d expected. Hm.

Whatever Mrs. O had done, it was getting me to the game—which I suddenly realized might give me a chance to see Rigel after all, if his parents let him go, too. On that thought, I turned off the iron and rushed upstairs to change—and to figure out a strategy to talk to Rigel alone, if he was there.

“Thanks for convincing Aunt Theresa to let me go to the game, Mrs. O’Gara,” I said as I got into the back seat with Molly half an hour later. “When I asked earlier, she said absolutely not.”

I didn’t dare ask if she’d used any special power on my aunt, but Mr. O turned to wink at me from the driver’s seat and said, “Lili can be very persuasive when she wants to be.

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