Little Wonders by Kate Rorick

Author:Kate Rorick [Rorick, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062877222
Google: XbSdDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Oh my god, I can’t. I just can’t.”

Daisy whipped her head around as she heard Shanna’s words. But Daisy couldn’t stop, as she was being pulled down the hall by Carrie at full speed, her little body tilted forward trying to drag her mother to her classroom.

Shanna was stage-whispering with Suzy Breakman-Kang and one of Charlie and Calvin’s moms. The twins’ mom was holding back a little bit while Shanna and Suzy broke down into giggles. Shanna caught sight of Daisy as she passed.

“Oh, Daisy!” she said. “Come here!”

“Can’t stop, hit you on the way back!” Daisy said as Carrie increased her speed. Daisy didn’t have to stop and question what Shanna had been so dramatically gasping over.

She knew.

Hell, she had been there.

She had seen the video, of course. The new one. She had immediately texted her friends in Los Angeles as soon as appropriate (read: as soon as she thought they might feasibly be awake on New Year’s Day) to—well, mostly to freak out.

Sarah Prime had texted back first.

Sarah Prime: Hey, Daze – Happy New Year! What’s going on?

What’s going on? Daisy thought desperately. Only that she had just started to think she maybe hadn’t completely destroyed someone’s life, when—nope! Turns out Quinn’s life was now Destroyed 2: Destroy Harder.

Then her other friends jumped in.

Allie: Girl, only you would text at this hour. How are you? It’s been so long!

And that’s when Daisy realized . . . she hadn’t spoken to her friends in a very long time. Not since her initial panic over the first video.

She’d told them what was going on, but over the course of the conversation, Daisy realized she wasn’t going to find any advice or absolution from her friends, because they were so removed from this. They loved her, they cared about her (actually, it turned out that Allie was a little worried that Daisy hated her, since they hadn’t really spoken since the Halloween video situation), but they didn’t live the same lives anymore.

They didn’t even know about her hair color.

So, she had gone through the New Year’s weekend friendless. Enjoyed by herself the blind panic and chewing her nails to the quick over her role in Quinn’s latest debacle. And mostly, she just felt tired and sad. And guilty. So deeply guilty over her role in it. And the truth was becoming alarmingly clear.

The Halloween video was never going to go away. Not completely.

And she was just going to have to live with it.

When they got to the Tadpole Room, Daisy was on alert. She hadn’t seen Quinn in person since New Year’s (and Quinn certainly hadn’t seen her there) and she knew she wouldn’t be able to look her in the eyes. It was Wednesday—she had managed to avoid being in the same drop-off window. To be fair, yesterday she had spotted Quinn’s car in the parking lot and had circled the block a few times until it was gone. She was late to the boutique, but she’d done so well over the holidays for Elaine, she’d earned a little grace.

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