To Die For by Anne Schraff

Author:Anne Schraff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, JUV011030, JUV039000
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Published: 2014-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Ernesto and Abel looked at each other as Penelope continued to talk. “Mrs. Serrano marched Lacey right over to the Gomez house, where Mrs. Serrano forced Lacey to give him back the necklace. Dumberto’s mother was just shocked that her son had given such an expensive gift to a fourteenyear-old. She kept saying to Dumberto, ‘Where did you get the money? Tell me! Did you steal the money?’”

Penelope giggled and said, “Old Lacey’s life is just totally ruined now, and it couldn’t happen to a better victim. She deserves it so much. She was riding high, and now she’s in the pits.”

Then the expression on Penelope’s face changed to one of pure happiness. “And something else awesome happened too. It’s like the good fairy of happiness is smiling on me and sticking pins in Lacey. I’ve got a boyfriend. At last, I’ve got a boyfriend!”

Abel clutched his head. “Oh, give me a break!” he groaned.

“Abel, he’s absolutely wonderful,” Penelope cried. “His name is Gil Patone, and he’s like a genius, and he’s so nice and polite. You know what’s best of all? He told me I was the healthiest-looking girl in the whole freshman class and that I just radiate freshness, and I wasn’t all bony and sick-looking like some of the girls.”

“Please tell me he’s a freshman,” Abel said, still clutching his head.

“He is,” Penelope said. “He’s just like one month older than me, and he’s nice and tall, not short like most of the freshmen boys. He’s sorta like you, Ernie, nice and friendly and smart, and he really likes me! He heard me say the other day that I like avocados, and he brought an avocado for lunch and shared it with me. He brought three avocados, in fact, and he shared with Angel and Bobby and Richie, our whole little gang. He likes us all. Is that cool or what? I mean, how many boys would be so thoughtful to do that? He’s like you, Ernie. You’d do something like that.”

“That’s great, Penny,” Ernesto said. “I’m happy for you.”

“Oh, it’s just about the happiest day in my whole life,” Penelope said, jumping into her brother’s car. “It’s like I’ve got an amazing boyfriend, and my absolute worst enemy in the whole world, Lacey Serrano, is in the pits where she belongs. Yay.”

Abel turned to Ernesto. “Stop grinning, homie. In a couple years, Kat is gonna be like this, and it’ll be even worse for you ’cause Juanita is coming right up behind her. It’ll be a double dose of trouble.”

At the dinner table that night, Ernesto mentioned Rick Alanzar missing his English class with Ms. Lauer. Rick was not a great student, but it was his favorite class. One day, he told Ms. Lauer he wanted to write fiction like F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Rick’s only friend at school is Humberto Gomez,” Ernesto said.

“I went to school with two guys named Gomez,” Luis Sandoval said. “The older one was Tony and the younger one was Rob. They weren’t in my group of friends, but they were both terrific baseball players, Rob especially.

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