The Do-Over by Jennifer Torres

Author:Jennifer Torres
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

And the last one:

Raquel let Lu run ahead of her as they crossed through the orange trees toward the loft apartment. It was early evening, but the sun still glowed soft and golden. Dad had packed two plates full of chicken tostadas into a grocery bag for Sylvia and Juliette. The apartment had a kitchen. They could have made their own dinner. But Dad had insisted on cooking for them, too.

The plastic bag knocked against Raquel’s hip as she walked, not really paying attention to where she was stepping. She didn’t have to. She and Lu could make that walk in their sleep after all the summers they had spent at the ranchette. With her free hand, she scrolled through the messages that had pinged into the Manzanita Mirror group text. #TeamAndrea. It felt good to think of the four of them as a team. It felt good to think of them winning.

She reread the last message, from Daisy. Just keep up the pressure and Sylvia will be gone for good.

“What’s taking you so long?” Lu called back to her. Raquel put the phone in her pocket and jogged to catch up.

Lu was staring up at the windows above the barn. Lights flickered inside. Someone must have had the television on.

“I guess we should … knock?” Lu asked.

They never had to knock before. Then again, there had never been strangers (practically) in the loft before. Lu started up the steps that led to the apartment.

“Wait!” Raquel stopped her. “Let’s go the other way.” An oak tree grew behind the barn, with branches that stretched up to the bedroom window. Maybe they could peek inside and get Juliette’s attention without Sylvia noticing.

“You go,” Raquel said when they got to the tree. “One of us has to hold the dinner bag, and you climb faster.”

Lu nodded and tightened the sweatshirt she had tied around her waist. She scrambled up the branches, and when she got to the window, she whispered down to Raquel, “Juliette’s in the bedroom … And her mom’s not with her.”

“Good. Get her to come to the window!”

Lu stretched out her hand to reach a bunch of acorns. She threw them, one at a time, at the window. The first one missed and bounced off the wall, but the next one hit the window with a soft thud.

“She’s coming!” Lu said.

Raquel flinched as the old window screeched open. They needed to keep quiet if they were going to have a chance to talk to Juliette without her mom hearing.

“You scared me!” Juliette said, poking her head out the window. She didn’t seem sick, Raquel thought, judging by how she was almost shouting. “You look sort of like a burglar with that mask on. A burglar with a taste for vintage florals, but still.”

“Shh!” Raquel warned.

Juliette looked down. “You’re here, too? What’s going on?”

“We brought dinner,” Lu said, still hugging the branch.

“And we wanted to ask you about your mom,” Raquel added, trying to get to the point. “What happened

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