The Mean Girl Apologies by Stephanie Monahan

Author:Stephanie Monahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, entangled publishing, edge, music, rock star, high school, mean girls, popular girls, reunited lovers, boston
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

In my cubicle, I spent three and a half hours copyediting articles written on what were perhaps the most boring events that have ever happened in recorded human history. A fire in a Riverdale apartment that was caused by a faulty electrical box. A former city hall official getting a new job at the chamber of commerce. Senator Howell renewing a call for fishing disaster relief.

Stonebury news was never heart-stopping, but it was like I was being punished for our underwhelming interview with Jack Moreland.

Hilary had called Gillian and me into her office. She had her glasses way down on her nose as she read the copy in her hands, and she’d looked at us over the frames and said, “Are you kidding me?”

“What?” Gillian had asked innocently.

“There’s not one exclusive piece of news in this entire exclusive interview.” She put air-quotes around the word “exclusive.”

Gillian squirmed in her seat, glancing at me for help.

“His manager gave us an entire list of questions we weren’t allowed to ask, and that was on it,” I said.

“Of course he did. That’s his job. And it was your job, as journalists, to get him to tell you the things they don’t want him to say.”

Gillian and I looked at each other again, both of us trying to think of an excuse that sounded good. Hilary sighed. “Oh, who am I kidding? We all know he’ll end up spilling his guts to Celebrity Weekly for a nice chunk of change. We’re just the hometown rag that no one even reads.”

Whoa. It was one thing for me to think this, quite another for my boss to be saying it out loud. Hilary tossed the copy into the blue recycling bin under her desk and turned to her computer, and it was clear we were dismissed.

Now I struggled to stay awake as the words on the screen in front of me began to blur together.

I needed a break. Gillian was out on an interview, so I walked across the street to the coffeehouse alone. While I waited for my latte, I took out my phone. Another missed call from Sarah. I’d been putting off calling her back for the past few days. I was sure Amber must’ve mentioned our little spat and had somehow managed to twist the story so that she came off as the victim. I wasn’t ready to defend myself. And I wasn’t ready to apologize to Sarah. I had to, eventually. I had to tell her the truth. But not yet.

Once I got my drink, I sat in the corner by the window and took the newest copy of Celebrity Weekly out of my bag. I’d already read most of it. This issue was filled with endless pictures of reality stars flaunting cleavage and telling us all about the secret contents of their bags. Why did I care? I didn’t know. But it was like my day was somehow incomplete without this knowledge.

There was an article I’d saved for last, when I had the time to savor the words and pictures.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.