Wish You Were Eyre by Heather Vogel Frederick

Author:Heather Vogel Frederick [Frederick, Heather Vogel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442341999
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Becca

“‘I wish he would come! I wish he would come!’”

—Jane Eyre

“Mrs. Wong, would you please hold still?” I put my hands on my hips, exasperated. Megan’s mother is as jumpy as our dog Yo-Yo during a thunderstorm.

“Sorry,” she replies. “But is all this fuss really necessary?”

“Of course it is,” says Mrs. Sloane-Kinkaid, who’s standing in front of her with a mascara wand poised in the air.

We’re at Megan’s house, helping her mother get ready for tonight’s debate. Filming the Cooking with Clementine episode took all morning, and by the time we were done, nobody was hungry for lunch.

“I don’t think I want to see another scoop of ice cream as long as I live,” Zoe had groaned as we got into the car.

I’d been so focused on our prank that I barely even tasted the ice cream, although just like everybody else, I ate far too much of it. Who can resist homemade vanilla ice cream with homemade hot fudge or salted caramel sauce? Or both, in my case.

After dropping me at home, Zoe and Mrs. Winchester and my mother headed to Half Moon Farm to join the group for a cheesemaking demonstration. You’d think girls from rural Wyoming would have had enough barns and four-legged creatures to last a lifetime, but they can’t seem to get enough of Half Moon Farm. Not that I don’t like spending time there, too, but I had cheerleading practice, and I couldn’t skip it. I’m already just barely hanging on to my place in the squad, what with my waitressing job at Pies & Prejudice. Coach O’Donnell has been really great about letting me juggle both, since she knows it’s been a help to my family while my dad was unemployed.

And besides, I really didn’t want to skip practice. It gave me an excuse to get away from Zoe Winchester for a couple of hours. Zoe is a major pain. What’s worse, I know that my friends used to call her Becca West, which is mortifying. Was I ever really like that? Bossy and boy crazy? Plus, she’s a lip gloss addict.

Ashley dropped me at the Wongs after practice. She’s feeling kind of left out this week, but she’s been a good sport about it. I’ll see her again tonight; she’s volunteered to help set up for the debate over at the high school, which is where most of our group is right now. I stayed behind with Megan and Gigi and Mrs. Sloane-Kinkaid and Zoe’s mother, to help Mrs. Wong with hair and makeup and last-minute wardrobe adjustments.

Which isn’t proving to be an easy task.

“There’s no such thing as too much fuss,” Mrs. Winchester tells Megan’s mother, who is still frowning at the mascara wand. “Whatever it takes, remember?” Zoe’s mother has been coaching Mrs. Wong all week on the ins and outs of campaigning, and she’s big on personal appearance.

Mrs. Wong sighs gustily and relents. Cassidy’s mother swoops in again as she tilts her face up. “All eyes will be on

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