Golden Girl by Mari Mancusi

Author:Mari Mancusi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

I woke up the next morning to a perfect ski day. The kind of day I used to live for, back when I was regularly competing. The sun shone; the wind was nonexistent. And the temperature was crisp, but not bitter cold. Enough to keep the ice away, without having the hill devolve into slush.

As I pulled my snowboard pants over my black leggings, I felt an unfamiliar excitement start to build. A feeling of anticipation swirling up inside of me. I honestly thought I’d feel more anxious, given what I was about to undertake. But the knowledge that I was going to spend the day with Logan gave me a warm glow that even reality couldn’t take away.

“Where are you going?” Caitlin asked sleepily, peeking out from under her black bedspread. “It’s early—even for you.”

“I’m meeting Logan,” I reminded her. “We’re going to Snow Peak today.”

Caitlin shot up in bed, sleep forgotten, her eyes dancing with excitement. “Oh, yeah!” she cried. “Are you nervous?”

“I’m terrified!” I said with a laugh. “But excited, too. I can’t wait to see him.”

“Aw,” Caitlin cooed. “It’ll be so romantic. Just the two of you, all alone on the slopes . . .”

“With about a thousand other people.”

“But you won’t notice a single one of them,” Caitlin pronounced, refusing to be deterred. She rolled over, propping her head up with her elbow. “Do you think he’ll kiss you?”

“Argh!” I cried, throwing a pillow at her. “Stop it! You’re killing me here!”

Caitlin grabbed the pillow and hugged it to her chest. “You’d better tell me every detail when you get back. Every single awesome detail.”

Speaking of details . . . As I pulled my sweater over my head, I wondered if I should tell Caitlin what happened last night with Olivia, but then decided against it. Though Caitlin was a good person, she was also, well, very . . . friendly. And not the best at keeping secrets. I was pretty sure that if I told her now, half the school would end up finding out by lunchtime. Which would only serve to further enrage you know who all over again. And funny enough, I had no desire to keep sticking my hand in that particular hornet’s nest, thank you very much.

Man, I missed Becca. Becca was my rock. My Fort Knox of secrets. I could—and would—tell her anything and everything. I missed that.

I missed her.

After stuffing my feet into my boots and saying good-bye to my roommate, I headed downstairs, grabbed my snowboard out of my locker, then changed course to meet Logan and his mother at the front gate. As I crossed under the archway, I found myself glancing up at the inscription again, whispering the words under my breath.

“ ‘What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?’ ”

I’d come up with a thousand choices over the years as I’d walked under that archway. Most of them having to do with sacrificing everything to go for the gold. But today a different choice made its way through my mind.

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