The History of Hilary Hambrushina by Marnie Lamb

Author:Marnie Lamb [Lamb, Marnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-77180-202-4
Publisher: Iguana Books
Published: 2017-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

When I woke up the next morning, all I could think was that I had to call Kallie and Lynn and explain to them that last night had been some kind of terrible misunderstanding. I’d say that the planets were misaligned. And if that didn’t work, I’d say it was my fault.

I called Kallie first because I figured she’d be easier to convince.

“Please don’t blame yourself, Hil. You did everything you could to make the evening fun. It just didn’t work out, that’s all.”

I rolled my eyes. Kallie had dismissed my theory about the planets in five seconds, and now she refused to believe I’d done anything wrong. Why did she have to be so nice? Frustrated, I asked, “If it wasn’t me or the planets, then what?”

“Lynn and I are very different people,” she said. She sounded like she was walking across a field and wasn’t sure if she was going to step on a daisy or a land mine. “We have very different interests.”

“So you don’t like her?”

“No. I’m sorry, but I don’t.”

“You didn’t give her a chance. Just because she dresses differently than you —”

“It has nothing to do with how she dresses. I wouldn’t care if she wore nothing but a lifejacket, as long as she was a nice person. It’s just … I don’t like the way she acts.”

“What way she acts?”

“Like the comment she made about you eating too much shrimp. It was mean, and it wasn’t even true.”

“Look, Kallie, I know you think you were being nice by defending me, but you don’t understand. Lynn and I have been best friends since grade one. We tease each other all the time. She didn’t mean to hurt me.”

“But that doesn’t mean she didn’t hurt you,” Kallie said quietly.

I felt like someone had been jabbing me in the neck with a sharp pencil and had jabbed one too many times. “Well, you can hate her all you want but you better get used to her because we’re all going to the same school!” I exclaimed.

I didn’t have any more luck with Lynn.

“How is it your fault she’s a freak, Hilary? You didn’t give birth to her. Misaligned planets … more like her brain is misaligned.”

“There’s nothing wrong with Kallie’s brain, believe me. She just takes a while to get used to. I didn’t really like her at first either, but once I got to know her, I realized she’s pretty cool.”

“Cool!” Lynn shrieked, as if I’d just shoved her into a vat of ice-cold water. “How can you use that word about her? She’s the opposite of cool. She dresses like a little kid. The most exciting thing she did all summer was see a gold sundial. Her idea of fun is probably dressing up stuffed animals.”

Good thing I didn’t tell her about Gorgolia, I thought. “But once you get to know her —”

“I don’t want to get to know her. And it’s not only because of the way she dresses. I’ve seen enough of the way she acts to know I don’t like her.

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