What If by Rebecca Donovan

Author:Rebecca Donovan [Donovan, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781455533091
Google: sFLOAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1455533114
Barnesnoble: 1455533114
Goodreads: 19189481
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2014-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

NICOLE

July—Before Seventh Grade

“If you start talking about what it’s like to kiss Cal, I’ll puke,” Rae threatens Richelle.

“What are we supposed to do at a sleepover if we don’t talk about boys?” Richelle demands, sitting on top of her sleeping bag.

“We could go scare the boys,” Rae suggests with a devious smile.

I laugh.

“See? Even Nicole likes that idea,” Rae says.

“Aren’t they sleeping in Cal’s backyard?” I ask, looking from Rae to Richelle.

This is the first time I’ve slept over at Rae’s. Sleeping in the basement in sleeping bags is so much different from sleeping in the bunk beds at Richelle’s. But I like it. We have a TV, and her mom is on the second floor, so we can stay up all night without her hearing us.

Richelle grabs the bag of Doritos and sits back against the orange and brown sofa.

“Okay. So what should we do?” she asks, after taking a sip of her Coke.

Rae rubs her hands together, grinning. “Come with me.”

She leads us through a curtain to the laundry room, where she sifts through the clothes in a basket, pulling out two hooded sweatshirts and handing them to me and Richelle. “They’re my mother’s boyfriend’s. Put them on.” She takes out a flannel shirt, putting it on over her Rancid T-shirt.

I look to Richelle. She shrugs and pulls the sweatshirt over her head. I do the same. The clothes are big on us, but I think that’s the point.

Rae stretches up on her tiptoes, trying to get a hat on a shelf. I reach up to grab it for her.

“Thanks,” she says, putting it on her small head. It looks huge too.

“Rae, you still haven’t told us what we’re doing,” Richelle says. Rae opens a door on the other side of the laundry area, flipping on a light.

It’s creepy in here. A dim bulb hangs from the ceiling. Everything’s covered in dirt and it smells like old things. I don’t follow her in.

“We’re going to sneak up on the tent,” she explains, rifling through the rakes and shovels leaning against the wall. “One person shines a light so we look like big shadows inside their tent. And the other two will…” She holds up a small ax with a grin.

“We’re not going to hurt them, are we?” I ask, staring at the shiny blade.

“Relax, Nicole,” Rae sighs. “We’re only going to wave it around and yell. It’s just to freak them out. It’ll be funny.”

I nod, not convinced. Richelle walks around the shadowy basement with Rae, searching too. She picks up a pitchfork. “Perfect.” She looks to me and asks, “Do you want to hold the flashlight?”

I nod again.

We sneak through the house, and Rae stops by the back door to hand me a large yellow flashlight with a handle. “Here.”

I take it from her and we slowly open the door.

We can see the tan dome tent from the back steps.

“Are they awake?” Richelle asks. Rae shrugs.

They creep across the grass. I follow a little ways back, carrying the flashlight.

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