Practically Ever After by Isabel Bandeira

Author:Isabel Bandeira
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

I was in the zone, so focused on my work that the media center around me disappeared. Curves and straight lines merged into each other on the 2-D sketching grid, shooting dimensions at me as I clicked away at the model and made it just a little bit thicker. With the change in place, it rendered back into the 3-D assembly: a shiny metallic image twirling on my screen. I rotated it to an angle where I could get a good look at how the change affected the aesthetic.

“That’s really pretty.” Cassie leaned over my shoulder to stare at my screen, then straightened up and stepped over to my side, hands on her hips in mock reproach. “But we have to go. Coach is going to kill you if you’re late, you know.”

“It’s the end of May,” I said, distractedly, adding another round to the main linkage. “It’s not like we’re cheering at graduation or anything, it’s just a game.”

“She’ll still kill you.” She reached over and flicked my arm with a finger. “And that would totally ruin graduation. It’s less than a month away—they’ll never be able to get the bloodstains off the field in time.”

I looked away from the screen long enough to let out a little snort-laugh, and shake my head at her. “Okay, just let me save this. I’ll meet you in the locker room.”

Cassie didn’t budge. “I know how you get when you’re doing something like this. I’ll wait.”

“Thanks, Mom.”

“You’re lucky I came in here when I did and you’ll thank me later when you’re not doing an extra lap during warmups.” She pushed her hair behind her ear and studied my screen again. “What is that? I’m not kidding when I said that’s gorgeous. It looks like one of those hand-flower bracelets or something.”

I checked the length of one of my linkages against the size chart in my notebook and added another two millimeters to make sure it would fit right. “It’s for my engineering design final. It’s a glove for people who’ve had strokes and have trouble unclenching their hands. Oliver is working on something like it for paralyzed people and when he showed me his design, something about it stuck with me. I thought it might be fun to mix function with fashion.”

She looked from my notebook to the screen and over to me. “It looks amazing. So tell me again why you’re going to study oil and stuff?”

“You know I wanted something in engineering, so—” I twirled the assembly around on the screen one more time before reluctantly hitting save and logging out. I still had a few fixes to make if I wanted the design to look just right. “Highest median salary.”

Cassie rolled her eyes. “Of course. I forgot about that.” She tugged on my sleeve as soon as I stood, practically dragging me out of the computer lab. “It’s a shame,” she said absently.

“What?” I had to pick up my pace to keep up with her as she wove through the hallway.

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