The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn

Author:Rachel Cohn [Cohn, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-10-17T22:00:00+00:00

Thursday, December 18th

“You’re not seeing what’s in front of you,” I told her. “First of all, this is a Christmas sweater. Just because it’s not showy—just because it doesn’t have tinsel or lights or a big bad reindeer on it—that doesn’t mean it’s not a Christmas sweater. The truth doesn’t have to advertise itself. All the truth needs to be is true.”

Lily looked so lost. “What are you doing? Why are you doing this?”

Finally I was able to tell her what I’d been going to tell her all along.

“Lily,” I said, “this is an intervention.”

“An intervention?” Lily asked, thoroughly confused.

“A Divine intervention!” Boomer cried. “But not in the Pink Flamingos sense!”

“What Boomer means,” I said, “is that we’re all here for you. Well, I think a few of Thibaud’s friends came for the beer. But the rest of us wanted to show you a good time. No—scratch that. We didn’t want to show you a good time—we wanted you to feel a good time. And I thought you were having a good time, which—and correct me if I’m wrong here—doesn’t feel like the right lead-in for breaking up with me.”

I looked at Sofia for confirmation that I was doing this right. She gave me a little nod.

Lily turned to Thibaud. “You were in on this?”

Thibaud tried to brush it off. “You could say I was pistol-whipped into doing it. But whatever. As I read once in a bathroom stall, For a good time, call Edgar. How could your quote-boyfriend-unquote resist?”

“If you don’t take those quotes out, next time we’ll duel with rapiers!” I threatened, perhaps a little overconfident of my rapier talents.

“You dueled?” Lily asked.

“Yes. And if we do it again, it will be—”

“DON’T SAY IT!” Thibaud screamed.

“—a dual duel,” I completed, with satisfaction.

“Dash!” Boomer cried. “Not the point!”

I turned to Lily. “Yes. That’s not the point. The point is that I really don’t want you to break up with me. In fact, what I’d like is for us to do the opposite of break up with each other.”

“Break into each other!” Boomer offered.

Both Lily and I shivered in horror at this wording. I figured that was a good sign.

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