The Other Girl: A Midvale Academy Novel by Sarah Miller

Author:Sarah Miller [Miller, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Pilar stood near the black iron Midvale gates. A quick thunderstorm had come and gone in twenty minutes, leaving the pavement dark, the grass and leaves greener, and the air cool and fresh. She’d made her way around the track again several times and done three different Pilates DVDs. She’d selected her dress carefully—a lavender bias-cut silk dress with red polka dots, and the cream-colored T-straps she got at Neiman Marcus last year. She’d watched her Mala Rodríguez video and felt thin.

As Gid approached she tried to sell herself on his cuteness. He had just shaved, and he was getting more and more to shave. His hair was the right amount of neat and tousled. He broke into a smile, and Pilar noticed the charming, extremely slight protrusion of his left incisor.

Then she saw the pocket square. She didn’t even really know what it was. She just knew that Gid looked really fucking gay. As he got closer, she could see tiny stiff black threads along the visible seams. It was cheap. It was polyester.

Gid’s face clouded. “Are you all right?”

A Town Car slowly circled one end of the quad, and Pilar flagged it. “I’m fine.” If I mention it, it will just be worse.

They got into the car and she sat far away from him. “So, the Fairmont,” Gid said, slapping his knees in happy anticipation. “It sounds pretty cool.”

Pilar opened her window. The limo driver, who also had a pocket square, was wearing the worst cologne. She sniffed in fresh air. “It is badly in need of a renovation,” she said.

She didn’t say anything else for the rest of the trip. She just stared out the window, thinking, please don’t let my mother ask if we are dating. Every once in a while, her eyes drifted over to the pocket square, and she thought about what a mistake she’d made inviting Gid.

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