The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Author:Amy Reed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

US.

Grace tunes out during most of Mom’s sermon about the renunciation of worldly goods. That doesn’t seem too relevant to her life right now since she doesn’t own much of anything.

She notices Jesse looking at her a couple of times during the service, but quickly looks away before having to admit to herself how nice his smile is. As soon as the service is over, she runs home without stopping at the bathroom even though she has to pee like crazy. That’s how desperate she is to avoid talking to Jesse Camp.

As she sits on her bed, ready to lose herself in the current book she’s reading, it suddenly hits her that, outside of what was required in classes or church activities, Grace has hardly ever talked to boys. Something in her softens. Maybe, deep down, she’s not so much angry at Jesse as she is scared—he’s a boy and she has no idea how to talk to him. What makes it worse is she suspects she probably wants to.

But what would that mean, if Grace let herself talk to Jesse? Would that mean she likes him? Would that make them friends? Would that mean she wants to be more than friends?

Grace cringes. She looks around her room, as if embarrassed that someone might have heard her thought, shamed that she even briefly considered something as ridiculous as that. She knows this line of thinking is off-limits to someone like her. She knows fat girls don’t get boyfriends in high school, especially semipopular ones like Jesse. No one has to tell her that her body makes her irrelevant to that entire conversation.

Grace has never questioned her body’s place in the world. She’s always believed the laws of movies and TV shows: Chubby girls are sidekicks, not romantic leads; sometimes they get to be funny, but more often they’re the butt of jokes; if they’re powerful, they’re evil—they’re Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid; they are not heroines and they are certainly not sexy. These are the rules. This is the script.

But life now looks so much different. Maybe those rules don’t apply anymore. Maybe they never really did. Maybe real life is not like movies at all. Maybe in this one, in this life, fat girls get to be heroines.

How r u doin? the text from Rosina says.

Erin hates how Rosina doesn’t spell out words properly.

Fine. She texts back, period and all.

Want to talk bout what happened at mtg? U ok?

Let it go. She texts back. It’s so much easier to be rude in writing than in person.

I’m worried about u.

Busy now. See you tomorrow. Erin shoves her phone in her pocket. She hears it ding with another text as she walks downstairs, but she doesn’t check it. Spot rubs up against her leg like he’s trying to tell her something. Is he on Rosina’s side now?

Mom is at her station in the kitchen. “Oh, good, you’re here,” she says as soon as she sees Erin. “I want to talk to you.

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