Teenie by Christopher Grant

Author:Christopher Grant [Grant, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89779-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

If this morning is any indication of how things will be between Cherise and me, I had better start looking for a new best friend. I have to keep repeating “her loss” to myself every time she rejects my efforts to patch things up. We leave the house together but she sits on the other side of the train. That’s fine, her loss. I’ll have more room and won’t have to worry about her sneezing on me. Her eyes are so red it looks like she just finished taking a bong hit.

When we get to class, she asks Mr. Speight if she could move to another desk, saying there was gum on hers. Hey, again, no problem, her loss. Mr. Speight sprung another quiz on us this morning, and I know her lazy behind didn’t study for it. I hope she gets them all wrong and ends up with a big fat zero.

As tough as I try to play, I still want to talk to squash things with her. Every time I get anywhere near her during gym, she walks away from me. But I don’t give up. I need to talk to her, about making up, about Greg and the blessing thing. Finally, I get an opportunity when she bends down to tie her shoelaces as we’re walking back into the building after gym class. I jog over and catch up to her. When I stop in front of her, she says, “Keep it moving” without even looking up at me.

“But, Cherise—”

“Get out my face.” She finishes tying her shoelaces and walks away.

Okay, now she’s starting to get me mad. I understand that she’s upset, but I was only trying to help her. If she can’t see that, then my mother is right. It is her loss! She’s lucky there are five people standing between us on the way up the stairs because all I can think about is how hard she would hit her head on the bottom step if I could reach her collar. If anything, I should be the one that’s upset. There’s no way my parents are going to let me go to Spain after what she got herself into. Besides being the ultimate cheapskate, Beresford is already super-overprotective of me. I’m sure he thinks that Cherise has corrupted me with her sneaky ways.

“Hey, sweetie.”

I almost bump into Greg on my way out of the staircase. He slides his hand around my waist and rests it just above my butt.

“Hi, Greg.” My stomach is churning like I’m making butter.

“Everything good with you? You got the crazy Ms. I’m-’Bout-to-Swing-on-Somebody look on your face.”

“I’m okay. I was just thinking about something.”

He eyes me for a second, tilts his head slowly to the side, like he’s trying to read my thoughts or something. I’m starting to get uncomfortable with the mind reading when he says, “Oh, alright. Cool. So we still good for later, right?”

Forget feeling uncomfortable. My face probably doesn’t show it, but I’m on the verge of a full-scale panic attack.

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