The Chic Shall Inherit the Earth by Shelley Adina

Author:Shelley Adina [Adina, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9780446564908
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2010-01-10T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

ITRACKED DOWN ASHLEY Polk after dinner, before I got started on my horrid chemistry homework. She texted me that she was out at the playing field, so I jogged over there to find her in the bleachers, watching the boys’ soccer practice.

I filled her in on the revised plan for the Cotillion.

“Good thing we haven’t sent the tickets to the printer yet,” she said, writing notes on her ever-present PDA with a slender stylus. “Summer Liang can change the price and add a line about the charity. And what a great idea about the video! If I’m elected senior consultant next year, that’ll be the first thing I show the new team of juniors.”

“If I weren’t graduating, you’d have my vote,” I told her with complete sincerity. “You’re so good at this.” I thought she blushed, but the setting sun was behind her and I couldn’t tell for sure. “If you ever want to intern with a charity organizer, I can put in a word with my mom.”

“Thanks, Lissa, that’s really nice of you,” she mumbled, slipping the PDA back into her bag. She jumped to her feet to cheer a spectacular save by the goalie, then settled down again.

“Friend of yours?” I inquired. He looked familiar. I blinked my contacts into place.

“Derrik Vaughan.” She sighed. “I wish.”

Of course it was Derrik. I’d just never paid that much attention to the boys’ soccer team before. “He seems nice,” I said. “He came with us for coffee last night after prayer circle.”

“Prayer circle?”

I nodded. “Every Tuesday night at seven in Room 216. He’s come the last few times. You’d be welcome, too, if you felt like it.”

“Oh, no.” The words sounded like a groan, and she actually moved a couple of inches farther down the bench. “I thought it was just a rumor.”

“What? That he’s coming to prayer circle?” Wow. The rumor mill must be over Vanessa and hurting for new material.

“No. That he’s going there for you.”

I stared at her. “You lost me.”

“Word is he’s going to ask you to Cotillion.”

“That’s silly,” I said firmly. “First of all, he’s never said more than hello and good night to me, and second of all, I already have a date to Cotillion.”

“You do?” Like a parched flower that has just gotten a shower of life-giving rain, Ashley straightened and the brightness came back into her face. “You don’t like Derrik?”

“Of course I like him, the way I like everyone in prayer circle. But I don’t like like him. I like—” I stopped. I like Kaz.

Well, of course I did. He was my best friend. But did you have to like someone as a boyfriend to go to Cotillion with him? Of course not. That would complicate things way too much.

But all the same, I’d better shoot him a note to confirm who was going in which direction this weekend to celebrate his book deal. And maybe we’d find some time for a little talk. I needed to prepare him for what people would think if he came as my date.

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