Summer of the Geek by Piper Banks

Author:Piper Banks [Banks, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-11T06:00:00+00:00

“That was weird,” Hannah said, walking into my room without knocking after dinner. I was sitting on the floor, rubbing Willow’s stomach, while she lay on her back, all four legs waving in the air. Willow grunted with bliss.

“Very weird,” I agreed. “I guess they learned to talk like that in therapy.”

Hannah sat on my bed. “Do you think it’s working?”

“Probably too soon to tell,” I said. “But at least it’s better than listening to them yell at each other.”

“That’s true.” Hannah looked around my bedroom, which was very white and very modern. There was a low platform bed covered with a white duvet, a dresser, and a boxy white chair that was too uncomfortable to sit on. Before I’d moved in, it had been the guest room, and when Peyton was feeling particularly malicious, she still called it that. “Why don’t you redecorate in here? I’ll help. We could paint the walls. Blue maybe. Or do you like purple?”

I glanced around. “I don’t know. When I first moved in, I didn’t think I’d be here long enough to personalize it. And then I guess I got used to the whiteness.”

Hannah wrinkled her nose. “It’s just so cold and impersonal.”

I was about to point out that the whole beach house was cold and white and impersonal—much like Peyton’s personality—but bit back the remark. Despite a bumpy patch when I first moved in, Hannah and I had been getting along pretty well in recent months. I didn’t want to ruin our good mojo by making mean comments about her mom, no matter how truthful they were.

“And you’ll be here next year, too, right? Didn’t you say your mom was staying in London?” Hannah asked.

I hesitated—I still hadn’t told anyone but my dad about London—but I decided I could trust Hannah.

“Actually, my mom wants me to move to London to live with her,” I said.

Hannah’s mouth dropped open. “Are you serious?”

I nodded. “I probably won’t go, though. I mean, I haven’t decided. But I probably won’t.”

“Are you insane?”

The force of Hannah’s words took me by surprise. She was looking at me as though I’d just announced that I’d just been asked out on a date by Robert Pattinson and had turned him down.

“You have a chance to get out of this hick town and go live in a glamorous, international city and you’re not going to take it?” Hannah continued.

“You would go if you were me?” I asked.

“Are you kidding? Of course I would!” Hannah said. “That’s, like, the opportunity of a lifetime.”

“Even though it would mean leaving behind all of your friends and Emmett?” I continued.

“Well, sure, that would be hard. I mean, I do love Emmett,” Hannah said, tossing her hair back. “But he’s going away to college in a year, and let’s face it—most high school couples break up as soon as one of them leaves for college. And if by some chance we are meant to be together, well, then, we’d be together even if I moved to Paris, right?”

“Paris?” I frowned at her.

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