You Can't Sit With Us by Nancy Rue

Author:Nancy Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2014-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Something did change after that.

Part of it was in me. I was still scared about the things people were saying that I didn’t hear. But whenever my stomach pinched in, I thought about Lydia saying this wasn’t going to happen overnight. That usually a plan like ours worked. That I could trust her. I had to think about that or I couldn’t eat. My gym sweats were falling off me.

Part of the change was in the air, and it wasn’t just the warm spring. It was about even the molecules feeling tense the minute we got out to the obstacle course on Friday.

We were in full run-throughs, and I was doing a little better. Even though I always came in last, even behind Winnie, I could at least do everything, except the wall. We’d had so much rain the ground was thick and sticky and our tennis shoes made sucking sounds when we ran on it. Not only did we have to jump hurdles; we had to leap over puddles so deep you could’ve fished them.

I was the one most likely to fall into one, but as I rounded the bend in the circular course, right after the tunnel crawl and the sprint, I saw Tori go into one headfirst. And I saw how it happened. Izzy was crouched at the edge of the path like she was tying her shoe, and when Tori passed her, going way fast, Izzy just calmly stuck her leg out and Tori went flying and splashed into the mud.

I was the first one to get to her, but before I could even say, “Are you okay?” somebody pulled me back by the seat of my sweats and almost yanked them off me. I stopped to pull them up so I didn’t expose my entire fanny to the BBAs, and by that time, Mitch was already helping Tori up.

“I got some extra sweats you can borrow,” Mitch said.

“I have an extra pair too,” Tori said. Which was good because she was, like, half Mitch’s size.

“Take a shower, Taylor,” Mrs. Zabriski called out. “You’re done for the day.”

When everyone went back to the course, I hung back and edged up to Mrs. Z.

“What is it, Hollingberry?” she said.

I felt like an annoying mosquito. And I so wasn’t.

“Is Tori going to get marked down for today?” I said.

She shaded her eyes with her hand and watched the kids go for the hurdles. “Why is that your business?”

“Because if she is, I should tell you something.”

“Not interested.” She pulled her hand away from her eyebrows and looked at me. Her way-short hair didn’t even move in the wind. “No, she’s not getting marked down. Okay? Happy now?”

No, but I nodded and started back toward the course.

“Hollingberry,” she said.

I turned and looked at her. If I’d had my notebook with me, I would have written, What? I’m sick of you being on me all the time. I haven’t done anything!

“Have you lost weight?”

I thought about my loose sweats. “I guess so,” I said.

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