What the Cards Said by Isobel Bird

Author:Isobel Bird
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

“Maybe I don’t care what you think!”

Annie watched as Tara slammed her locker shut and turned to face Sherrie, who was hovering behind her with her arms folded across her chest.

“What did you say?” Sherrie asked, her eyes wide with surprise.

“I said maybe I don’t care what you think,” Tara repeated. “What part of that don’t you understand? I’m tired of you criticizing everything I do.”

“I was only trying to give you a little advice,” Sherrie snapped.

“Well, don’t,” Tara said. “You know what your problem is, Sherrie? You think people actually care what you have to say. Here’s a news flash—they don’t.”

Tara turned and stormed down the hallway, leaving a shocked Sherrie staring after her. A crowd of onlookers had gathered during their fight, and they looked at Sherrie expectantly, waiting for her to say something. But all Sherrie could do was stand there fuming, her mouth opening and closing as if she were dying to say something but couldn’t get the words out.

“What was that all about?” Cooper asked as she and Kate arrived at the lockers.

“Oh, it was good,” Annie told them. “Sherrie was making fun of Tara’s outfit, and Tara let her have it.”

“Tara?” Kate said in disbelief. “Tara stood up to Sherrie?”

“Big-time,” Annie told her. “As you can tell, Sherrie still isn’t sure what hit her.”

The three of them laughed. Sherrie heard the noise and glared at them. Then she marched over to Annie and pointed a finger at her.

“This is your fault,” she said. “You and that stupid reading you did.”

“My fault?” Annie said, bewildered. “What did I do?”

“You’re the one who told her she had to stand up to me,” Sherrie said.

“I never said that,” Annie protested. “All I told her was that she had to stand up for herself. I didn’t say it had anything to do with you.”

“That’s true,” Cooper said. “We all might have thought about you when it came up, but Annie never said that.”

“It’s the same thing,” Sherrie insisted. “You just wanted to make me look like an idiot.”

“Like she needed any help?” Kate said.

Sherrie shot Kate a look. “Don’t think I don’t know whose idea it was,” Sherrie said. “But if you think you can take Tara and Jessica away from me just because you decided to hang out with losers, you’d better think again. They’re my friends. Got that? They’re not going to come running to you just because you trick them with your stupid games.”

“It’s not a game,” Annie said. “All I did was read the cards, just like you asked me to.”

“You made it all up,” Sherrie said. “I knew it that first time at the carnival.”

“Oh, yeah?” said Cooper. “Then what about your trip to Paris?”

“Lucky guess,” Sherrie said. “It’s summer. People take trips in the summer. She just happened to guess right.”

“Whatever,” Cooper said. “Why don’t you run along and find something else to be paranoid about?”

“I always said the three of you were freaks,” Sherrie said. “This just proves it. That’s really classy, trying to steal people’s friends because the ones you have aren’t good enough.

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