The Edge of Falling by Rebecca Serle

Author:Rebecca Serle [Serle, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780857075192
Google: yTUGAQAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1442433167
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2014-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

You probably won’t believe me, at this point, given what I’ve told you about my family, but before Hayley died, we used to have family dinners. Not every night, but when we could, when my dad was in town. Me, Mom, Dad, Peter, and Hayley. Trevor came a lot too. His mom is a nurse and works nights, so he’d come over after school and just kind of stay. We’d do homework in my room. Hayley would usually join in. She liked to hang out with us. Well, she liked to hang out with Trevor.

He was so good with her. I remember one afternoon last December we were all in my room. I had a final English paper due. Something on Edith Wharton that Trevor had already finished. He and Hayley were sketching on her big notepad on the floor. I was sitting at my desk. I kept hearing them laugh and whisper behind me.

“Can you guys keep it down?” I teased, turning around. “I’m trying not to fail out of school here.”

“A B isn’t failing, Caggs,” Trevor said. “Sorry to disappoint.”

I rolled my eyes at him and Hayley laughed. “You think we should tell her?” Hayley asked.

Trevor squinted at Hayley. “You think she can handle it?”

Hayley nodded enthusiastically. She started bouncing on the floor.

Trevor exaggerated an exhale. “I don’t know. I’m just not sure. Have we thought this through enough?”

“She can!” Hayley cried. “I promise, she can! Let’s tell her!”

Trevor nodded. “If you insist, Ms. Caulfield.”

Hayley’s eyes looked like saucers. They got like that—big and bright—when she was really excited about something.

Trevor cleared his throat. “Show her,” he said.

Hayley held up the sketch pad they had been working on. “Congratulations!” was written on it in block letters, colored in purple and orange, her favorite colors.

I looked from Trevor to Hayley. Both of them were beaming. “Congratulations?”

Hayley looked like she was about to burst. “You and Trevor got the Journal!” She looked at Trevor and bit her lip. He started laughing.

“Is she serious?” I asked him.

Trevor nodded. “Yeah,” he said. “It’s ours.”

I flew out of my chair and into his arms. I remember he picked me up and spun me around. Hayley clapped her hands together from the floor. Then he kissed me. One of his end-of-movie kisses. I didn’t even care that Hayley was there. I wrapped my arms around his neck and let my toes leave the ground. “We get to spend all of next year together,” he said, pulling back just a bit.

I touched my forehead to his. “We were going to do that anyway.”

“Let’s celebrate!” Hayley said.

I blew some air out of my lips. “I have to finish this paper.”

Trevor set me down. “No problem,” he said. “You work; we’ll get the ice cream.”

Hayley stood up and marched toward the door. “Chocolate?”

“You know it.”

She smiled and disappeared into the hallway. Trevor pulled me to him. I wrapped my arms around his neck.

“I can’t believe this,” I said. “We seriously got it?”

“Seriously.”

I threaded my fingers through his hair.

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