The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Spotswood Jessica

Author:Spotswood, Jessica [Spotswood, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2018-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

KAT

“Watch out!” Mase yells as a black cat streaks toward the open door of the Tabby Cat Café.

“No! Bad Shadow!” Kat shrieks, kicking the door closed behind her. She drops several IKEA bags on the floor, narrowly missing the cat. “I thought they were all penned upstairs!”

“Obviously, we missed one. Did you count wrong?” Mase puts his bags down and picks up Shadow. “What are you doing, huh, troublemaker? Making a run for your freedom? It’s nicer in here. You get all the head scratches and Fancy Feast you want.”

“I did not count wrong!” Kat wonders if she counted Sassy twice, though. Shadow and Sassy look a lot alike. She strides across the mostly empty café, examining the chalkboard wall they painted yesterday. “I think this is ready to prime.”

“Did we buy primer? I don’t think primer was on the list.” This morning, Mase drove them across the Bay Bridge to the IKEA in College Park, where they picked up all the pillows and baskets and lamps that Miss Lydia had signed off on. The new futons and end tables will be delivered later, but Kat got to use the company credit card. It was very exciting. No one has ever trusted her with a business credit card before.

“You don’t use regular primer. You cure it with chalk,” she explains. “If you hurry, we can get this done before rehearsal.”

“Ugh, you’re so bossy,” Mase teases, sliding his sunglasses on top of his head.

“Only because you’re such a slacker.” She grins. Miss Lydia agreed to close the cafe this week so they could paint and clean and redecorate to their hearts’ content. She’d put them in charge of the redesign, although she had to approve every purchase over fifty dollars. But she loved Kat’s ideas.

Kat claps her hands twice. “Come on! We still have a lot to do! Everything has to be perfect by Tea Party weekend for the grand reopening.”

“Known as the Fourth of July in other, normal places,” Mase stage-whispers to Shadow.

“I love Tea Party weekend,” Kat confesses. “We had so much fun last year on the raft. Till it sank. Even after it sank, really.” She only remembers after the words are out that Mase and Brandon were on the drama club raft too.

“Maybe it was a harbinger of the garbage year to come,” Mase says.

At least he’s joking about it now.

“Put the cat upstairs, slacker,” she commands.

“But he’s my favorite!” Mase complains, petting Shadow.

“I thought I was your favorite.” She gives him an exaggerated wink. “Come on. I’ll let you play Hamilton again if you put Shadow upstairs with his friends!”

Mase is still obsessed with the Hamilton original cast recording. She can’t tell how much of it’s because of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s genuine musical brilliance and how much is Mase’s enormous crush on Daveed Diggs. Then again, who doesn’t have an enormous crush on Daveed Diggs?

“Fine.” Mase fake stomps toward the stairs.

“Take some of those bags with you, please,” Kat calls.

“Bossy!” Mase tosses over his shoulder.

“You love it!” She rifles through some bags.

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