Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake

Author:Ashley Herring Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Help what? I’m fine. Give me my notebook back.

“Hey, did you see Drew today?” Taryn asked from behind Ivy. Ivy startled and dropped her pencil. What’s worse, she dropped the note she’d just written, and Taryn stooped to pick it up.

Ivy yanked it out of Taryn’s fingers so fast, Taryn gasped.

“Sorry,” Ivy said as she placed her note inside the locker and shut the door. “Just trash.”

Taryn flicked her eyes to the locker and back to Ivy. “Are you okay?”

Ivy pushed her hair out of her face and smiled. “Yeah. Of course. Just cleaning out some things from my locker. What about Drew? Is he being nosy?”

Taryn made a face. “Nosy? What? No, he’s wearing that Star Wars shirt I gave him for his birthday.”

“He wears that shirt all the time.”

“Yeah, but the roof on his house is pretty much gone, which means that when he went back and got stuff out of his room to have while he stays with his grandma, he got my shirt.”

Ivy thought about all her T-shirts buried under a pile of rubble. If she could have just one back, it would be the kelly-green V-neck with Lonely Hearts Club written across it in curly script, after an old Beatles song. Layla gave it to Ivy for her tenth birthday and said the color looked good with Ivy’s pale red hair.

Ivy swallowed hard. “So now it’s the things-Drew-can’t-live-without Star Wars T-shirt?”

“Exactly.” Taryn beamed.

Ivy cracked open her locker again just enough to grab her math book, then looked around for June. She wanted June to come around the corner and smile and tell Ivy that she got the picture and that she loved it. And she was terrified June would come around the corner and not even look at her or, worse, tell Ivy she hated the picture.

All these thoughts made Ivy’s insides go wobbly. Maybe that was normal. Maybe Ivy felt all wobbly when she and Taryn first became friends, and she just didn’t remember. Maybe it was a different kind of wobbly because they were five years old. Maybe Ivy and June’s friendship was just a different kind of friendship, stormier and wilder, just like she’d thought last night.

“… just the first shirt he saw, you know?”

Ivy yanked her attention back to Taryn, who apparently had been talking this entire time. “Sorry, what?”

Taryn sighed. “I said, maybe his mom or dad grabbed the shirt. Or maybe it was just the first one he saw. Or maybe he really wanted the one I gave him. What do you think?”

Ivy blinked at Taryn. That was a lot of maybes. And Taryn was pressing her hands to her stomach like it felt all twisty or something. And her eyes were darting around while she bit her bottom lip, like she was hoping for a glimpse of Drew.

Was Ivy biting her bottom lip? She touched her mouth and felt her teeth. Then she took a deep breath because her stomach was definitely twitchy. And she knew her eyes were just darting around, hoping for a glimpse.

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