Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind by Brent Crawford

Author:Brent Crawford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide

WINTER

16. LOU-OWE

Wrong! A cold front rolls into Merrian as well as my relationship with Abby. She decides not to go to New York in January, and falls into a weird depression that I can’t snap her out of. She won’t eat, and I know why. She knows I don’t approve of any plan that reduces the junk in her trunk, and maybe she’s pissed at me for not being more supportive, or just because I know this secret, but we are way off. We’ve been to the movies a couple of times, but we struggle to talk both before and after. I ask her questions, but it’s more like a bad interview than a date. We kiss, but she’s phoning it in, and we’re back to karate chops when I go for boob. My jokes seem to make her mad, so I stop making them, and then it gets really weird. We say hi in the halls, but she makes excuses not to hang out with me. Lynn says I have to give her space, but that’s the opposite direction I want to go. By December we’ve basically broken up (without the breakup).

Auditions for Camelot came and went, and I didn’t go, so now I’m spending my afternoons in a testicular-crushing banana hammock, swimming back and forth in an over-chlorinated pool. The tiny amount of oxygen that’s allowed into my lungs is so tainted with chemicals that it makes me want to barf. On a positive note, it also causes me to forget how much pain my muscles are in, as well as the fact that I’m hanging out with Andre all the time. Of course I didn’t want to sing and dance away my precious time and hang out with smart, fun kids and have people clap for me and maybe win Abby back again. Screw that!

Abby and Jeremy got the lead roles in Camelot, which caused a lot of drama in the wing because Abby hadn’t told anyone that she wasn’t going to New York. She just showed up at the auditions and killed it. Drama kids are all “supportive” until audition time, and then a bus accident is great news. The other girls are pissed, to say the least.

I still help build sets and hang lights when I have time. The other day I was talking to Jeremy instead of working when Abby just walks past us without a word. He knows about the fifteen-pound/Adele situation from New York, but he’s as perplexed as I am that she’s taking it out on me.

He pats me on the back and says, “That’s why I don’t date girls.”

“Yeah, me too.”

“No…you need that girl,” he says. “Unfortunately, she’s as stubborn as she is hot. Keep after her, Carter. I know she loves you.”

“She won’t even talk to me, dude.”

“Who told you awesome was easy?” he asks. “You’ve got to fight for a booty like that!”

He throws a quick punch at my head, and I duck without thinking. He repeats, “Fight for that booty, boy.

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