The Things You Kiss Goodbye

Author:Connor, Leslie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

What a joke. My father would never give me a key to anything. Yet there it was, stated in triplicate on Cowboy’s invoice pad. (I couldn’t help noticing that it was a wicked run-on sentence.) He had signed it with three initials: SWS.

On my way across the playing fields, I took one more look at the would-be excuse and jammed it into my pocket. I wasn’t going to try to use it. If the school checked it out with my parents, it’d screw up everything.

I sat in detention that afternoon, glad to be free of the Not-So-Cheerleaders. I rested my knee, and considered what to do about the squad now that I’d overheard them trashing me. But that draining discussion with Brady was still fresh in my mind. I had little doubt that he was still stressed over basketball. But he was trying hard with us; he’d been sweet and solicitous. If I quit the squad now it would seem like I’d just set out to piss him off. Also, without cheerleading, Momma and Bampas would have me riding home on the bus again after school every day. Miserable as it was, staying on the squad preserved my freedom.

The detention clock ticked. I pulled the invoice out of my pocket again. I held it to my nose and sniffed, wanting the scent of the shop to fill me. Cowboy hadn’t signed his name. Just SWS. Maybe because it was a bit of a game between us. I didn’t know his real name, and he’d only recently learned all of mine. But the letters must be his initials. What could SWS stand for?

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