Janie Face to Face by Caroline B. Cooney

Author:Caroline B. Cooney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780375979972
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-01-07T23:00:00+00:00

From the limousine depot, Janie’s father drove back to the house, while her mom was on her phone telling everybody she knew about the wedding, and Janie was on her phone telling everybody she knew.

When they were both in high school, Janie had coaxed Reeve to skip school and take her to New Jersey. She wanted to find the house occupied by the unknown family who had put that face on that milk carton. Not so long ago, but another world. No GPS in that old car of Reeve’s. No cell phones in their hands.

Janie could hardly believe they had existed without cell phones.

On that long-ago day, she and Reeve had stopped at a phone booth and used the phone book hanging inside it. Janie probably hadn’t even seen a phone booth since that day.

As she talked with her parents, Janie bought a wedding app for her iPhone. It took little browsing to see that every other bride in America planned to spend a lot more time getting ready than Janie did.

For Janie, formal wedding invitations were out. No time to get them designed, printed, addressed, or mailed. Spiffy receptions were out because reception halls were booked a year or two in advance. Caterers ditto. Special-order gowns were out. She had to get hers off a rack.

She texted Sarah-Charlotte. Looking for eloping app.

You’re not eloping. You’re racing. You’re a track star bride.

Reeve’s mother kept calling her son until she got through. It took hours and used up her patience. “Marrying Janie is a lovely idea, Reeve,” she said brusquely. “And that video is so romantic. But she is young, young, young and so are you. You cannot get married in seven weeks. Seven years would be a better choice. You have just gotten started in your career, which requires a major time commitment and will involve travel as you are given responsibility for events at distant campuses. She herself has two more years of college. You must wait until she has her degree and has lived on her own and matured considerably prior to setting a date.”

“Actually the date is Saturday, the eighth of July. Are you free, Mom? Did you check your calendar? We’ll have the ceremony at the Springs’ church, and then have a big party—a picnic, really—at their house.”

“Better would be to wait, save money, have a lovely fashionable wedding, go on a wonderful honeymoon, and—”

“Mrs. Spring is reserving a block of rooms at a motel near the church,” Reeve said.

“Donna and Jonathan Spring cannot be in favor of a marriage when Janie is so young and facing so many intense situations for which she is emotionally unprepared.”

“Actually,” said Reeve, “she’s going to call herself Jennie from now on. She’ll be Jennie Spring for the next month and a half and then she’ll be Jennie Shields. It’s a nice name, isn’t it? If I can just remember it. Todd said, since he’s best man, he’ll hold up a cue card so I use the right name when I say ‘I do.

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