Parallelogram Omnibus Edition by Brande Robin

Author:Brande, Robin
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Ryer Publishing

11

It was 6:30 by the time they arrived back at Lydia’s house. My mom was already there, chatting with Elena in the kitchen. Will and the disgusting Gemma were in the living room, mildly bickering over some detail that had to with her parents’ upcoming ball.

That’s right, an actual ball. As in fancy dresses, men in tuxedos, a private orchestra, a ballroom, the whole thing.

Because her family is as ridiculous as she is. And as pretentious. A surprise 50th birthday for “Daddy” couldn’t just be like a regular party. It had to involve engraved invitations to the right people, who would then have to spend crazy amounts of money for the proper clothes and some sort of extravagant gift that would justify having been invited to such a gala event.

Gemma let slip about the ball one night while we were all hanging out at Will’s and Lydia’s. It was clear Gemma hadn’t intended to invite any of us except Will, but once she talked about it in front of us, even she knew she couldn’t be so rude as not to invite us all. My mother and Elena politely declined, but not me. I was all over that invitation.

Why?

Because Gemma also let slip that her older brother, Colin, would be flying in from England to surprise his father. And in the same way that Gemma is a parallel version of Sarah, I knew this Colin would be the parallel version of Sarah’s brother, Daniel. I just had to see what he was like—the whole idea of it was too juicy to pass up.

“You will wear the hat,” Gemma was telling Will in her prim and proper British accent.

“If I have to wear it, I’m not coming,” Will answered in a friendly, sort of teasing way.

Gemma gave him her best pout, then flipped her hair and pressed her chest into Will’s side. It was the first time Halli had seen that particular move, so it didn’t annoy her nearly as much as it always does me. Still, she could already tell Gemma was going to be quite the spectacle to watch.

“Lydia,” Gemma said, seeing them come in, “you must tell your brother to do as I say.”

“Do as she says,” Lydia said dully. She didn’t care what Will did or didn’t do. She usually didn’t want to get involved in any of these discussions with Gemma.

“Audie girl, what are you wearing?” Gemma asked in her usual disdainful tone. “Something suitable, one hopes. Just this once.” Then she tossed her hair again and winked.

And right there, Halli could see what I’d been talking about: that disgusting combination of meanness, superiority, and then the weird attempt to cover it up by looking cute. But instead of Halli wanting to stab out that winking eye with a plastic fork the way I usually want to, the whole display secretly cracked her up. From then on, it’s like she settled in for the show. She wanted to see what this strange girl who looked like Sarah would do next.

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