Winter's Redemption (Winter Black Series Book 3) by Mary Stone

Author:Mary Stone [Stone, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

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Wynona Baines hated her name.

It made her sound like some old lady, big-haired country singer. It wasn’t her fault that her dad was obsessed with Wynona Judd and her mom hadn’t insisted on Parker as a first name. Her dad had won that argument thirteen years ago, and Parker had become her middle name.

Parker sounded like a cool girl. Someone who could navigate eighth grade with no problems and would never dream of tripping over her own big feet in the hallway, dropping her books right in front of Jake Popper, the cutest guy in school.

Parker would be a blonde, smart, popular girl who had it all together. Not a skinny, black-haired, awkward girl with a pimple on her chin that looked like Mount Vesuvius, even though she’d covered it up with some of her mom’s foundation that morning.

“Wynnie, did you check with your parents about Friday night?” Becca, short and pudgy with brown eyes and overgrown bangs, looked up at her like a puppy. Becca lived down the street, and they’d been friends since they could walk.

“Parker,” Wynona automatically corrected, lifting her chin. “I’m going by Parker now.”

She tried to correct Becca every time, even suggesting Becca go by her full name—Rebecca Montague, which sounded way more sophisticated—but Becca never seemed to remember. She was kind of childish, still. Probably because she was only twelve and a half.

But Wynnie and Becca sounded like little kid names. And at nearly thirteen, nothing was worse than being labeled a little kid.

“Yep,” she answered. “I’m good to go. I just have to make sure my chores are done, and I get a B or better on my history test.”

“Cool,” Becca breathed, relieved. “You’ll ace it for sure. You’re smart. And I can help you with your chores if you want. I don’t mind doing dishes.”

Becca linked arms with Wynona, making her remember why they were friends. Becca was so earnest all the time. That had been one of her vocab words in Lit and Comp last week, but it fit her friend perfectly. Showing sincere and intense conviction.

They were BFFs, even if Becca was a little immature.

They walked the rest of the way to Becca’s house, reminiscing about Barry Klippington throwing up in the lunchroom that morning. Sucked to be him, but he was always pulling Wynona’s hair in pre-algebra, so she couldn’t summon up much sympathy. Barfing Barry, though…that name was going to stick with him. She winced in sympathy.

The birds were chirping, and the sky was so blue, it almost hurt to look at it. It felt like spring, and she and Becca were both in a good mood when Wynona left her at her front door.

“See you in the morning!” she yelled, waving, and headed down the sidewalk. Her own house was just one street over. About ten houses away, and around the corner.

She was thinking about how Barry was kind of cute, when he wasn’t being annoying and losing his lunch in front of the whole school, when a voice behind her caught her attention.

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