My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan by Seth Rudetsky

Author:Seth Rudetsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780375873249
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-01-24T22:00:00+00:00

THE LINCOLN CENTER SHOW WAS A-MA-ZING! I’m about to go to sleep because I had to spend the last hour obsessively reading through the Playbill over and over again and now it’s super-late, but here’s the backstory quickly. When I first knew I was definitely going to the show, I desperately wanted to give Chuck the other ticket, but I was smart enough not to ask him. Yes, I’m working toward dating/smooching him, but even I know that when we’re dating, there’ll be no afternoons in Manhattan, having brunch and taking in a musical. That’s why I have Spencer. He’s not even into Broadway like I am, but he’s always willing to come along with me whenever I want to see a show, and because he’s so smart, he’ll always have something incredibly insightful to say about it afterward.

My mom dropped us off at the Long Island Rail Road. “Have fun!” she said as we got out of the car. We started walking up the stairs, and she leaned out the window.

“Justin! Don’t you have to wait down here for Becky?”

Ugh! Lately she’s been asking me all the time how things are going with Becky and if she wants to come over to our house for dinner. I know she’s trying to figure out what’s really going on, and it takes so much effort to keep giving vague answers so she and my dad will keep out of it. This time, because we were halfway up the stairs, I had the advantage of distance.

“Peas and carrots, peas and carrots!” I yelled. We had learned in Mrs. Hall’s theater class that when you’re in a crowd scene and you’re supposed to make general crowd noises, just repeat “Peas and carrots” and it does the trick. And, from a distance, it looks like you’re saying something.

“What?” she yelled as the car behind her started to honk.

That was my cue. I gave her a thumbs-up and pulled Spencer up the stairs. I promptly turned off my cell phone so she couldn’t ask any further questions, and Spencer and I stood on the platform, waiting for the train.

“Your mother still doesn’t know your devious plan?”

“No,” I replied. Then added, “And it’s not devious.”

Spencer did his “no response” routine, which I knew was a way to make me examine what I just said. But I took it as a cue to talk about global warming. I knew if I mentioned something he was interested in, he’d get his mind off me and Chuck and Becky.

Right when he was talking about the long-term effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the train arrived. As we were getting on, I noticed that he looked adorable. Underneath his overcoat, he was wearing a casual brown blazer that contrasted with his orange hair perfectly. I mentioned how much I loved his coat, and he told me he got it at a Housing Works thrift store, which gives all their profits to help homeless people with AIDS. Leave it to Spencer to figure out a way to look good while saving the world.

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