What If... All the Rumors Were True by Liz Ruckdeschel

Author:Liz Ruckdeschel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780375849015
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-11-25T05:00:00+00:00

Haley is starting to get the hang of this acting business, even if some of Xavier’s methods seem silly at first. It’s all pretty intense, though. If you think Haley could use a break from the theater crowd and would find an afternoon with Sasha refreshing, go to "BUYER’S REMORSE". If you’d like Haley to stick with her fellow artistes, go to "SET DESIGN".

For serious theater people, acting is a calling, not a hobby. The question is, is it calling out to Haley?

GUEST APPEARANCE

Resolved: if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with. Discuss.

“Mitchell, get the door!” Haley called downstairs. Her parents were out, and Mitchell was in the basement, most likely destroying something. Haley was up in her room doing practice SAT math problems. At least, she was supposed to be doing math problems. Her mind was actually more focused on romantic problems—like Reese Highland’s recent disappearing act.

“You get it,” Mitchell called back. “I’m busy disassembling the remote.”

Right again, Haley thought. She put down her pencil and walked downstairs as the doorbell rang a second time. “Coming!” she called. “Mitchell, you’d better be able to put that remote back together before Mom and Dad get home.” Perry could get pretty cranky if he couldn’t pause, slow-mo or resee scenes in his favorite films.

“Don’t worry,” Mitchell said. “I have complete faith in myself.”

That’s for sure, Haley thought. And it was true that so far Mitchell had been able to reassemble everything he’d meticulously broken down, including her camera, which had stopped sticking between frames and now worked better than it did before.

Haley peeked through the window next to the heavy front door and gasped at the sight of Alex Martin. He stood patiently on her front porch in his belted khakis and a polo shirt, his short chestnut hair neatly combed.

What was he doing here? What could he possibly want?

Haley racked her brain for any memory of invitations to her house—study groups, debate team meetings she might have volunteered to host—but came up blank.

There’s only one way to find out, a little voice in Haley’s head said. Open the door, stupid.

“Hi, Alex,” she said, leaning against the doorframe.

“Hello, Haley. I was in the neighborhood and thought I’d stop by.”

In the neighborhood? Please.

“Um, great,” Haley said. She stood there waiting to hear what he wanted, but he seemed to be ceding the floor to her. Talk about awkward.

“I was wondering if you’d like to go out for some frozen yogurt,” Alex said at last.

Haley stepped out onto the porch. Alex’s car, a shiny, expensive-looking black sedan, was parked in the driveway, ready to whisk her off for fro-yo. Meanwhile, the Highlands’ house next door, Haley couldn’t help noticing, looked completely empty. “Sorry, I can’t,” Haley said. “I’m watching my little brother.”

“Oh,” Alex said. She thought he’d leave then, but he didn’t. He just seemed to be staring at the polish on his tassled brown loafers.

How arrogant of him to think he can just show up like this, Haley thought.

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