Reading Between the Lines by Katrina Abbott

Author:Katrina Abbott [Abbott, Katrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, young adult contemporary romance, young adult romance, Love & Romance, Equestrian, sports, coming of age, Boarding school
Publisher: Over The Cliff Publishing
Published: 2014-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

Break Time

Two hours or so later, the food drive was running like a well-oiled machine. Despite it being a bit cool out, we had sold a ton of hot dogs, hamburgers and sodas outside the store and I kept getting update texts from Dave that the guys were collecting plenty of pantry donations inside the store. I had a feeling he wanted me to come inside to touch base with them in person, but keeping my distance felt like a good strategy.

Anyway, I’d been working hard schmoozing extra donations out of people as I sold them their lunch outside and felt like that was where I should be, considering I was running the event. I wasn’t sure how much we’d collected so far, but the chief’s helmet was almost full of bills and rattled heavily at the bottom, so we were definitely doing well. It felt good to know we were helping make a difference in some people’s lives for Thanksgiving and I understood why Emmie liked doing stuff like this. On a personal level, I was sort of glad she hadn’t come with us, but I was still kind of surprised she hadn’t and wondered what she was up to; she hadn’t even texted me, so I had no idea. I just hoped she wasn’t mad about something.

I’d given the first batch of girls a half hour for their own lunch break and as I looked up from the man I was handing a soda to, I saw them returning right on time. There were still a bunch of other girls to go first, though, so I stayed behind the table, resigned to take the last lunch shift.

“Why don’t you take a break,” Mr. Stratton said from beside me. He had disappeared soon after we’d arrived at the store, saying he had some errands to run, but I guess he was done with whatever it was, because there he was, smiling and looking slightly rumpled, which was really, really a bad thing for us students.

Chelly hummed out an almost inaudible sigh.

“What?” I said to Mr. Stratton, trying to get my brain back online.

“You look hungry and a little bit frazzled. Have you had a break yet?” he asked, looking from me to Chelly and back again.

“No,” Chelly said with a loud cluck of her tongue and a big eye-roll. “Brooklyn’s the worst boss ever. She’s been working us like dogs and hasn’t even let me have a sip of water.”

I looked pointedly at the open can of soda in her hand. “Really?”

She blinked back at me. “It’s not water, is it?”

Mr. Stratton laughed and came around to the back of the table, waving us away while the other girls who had returned got themselves settled back in. “Go on, we’ll manage without you.” He introduced himself to the firefighters and started chatting with them like he’d been there the whole time.

“Okay, so I guess it’s break time,” I said to Chelly as we walked away from the grocery store.

“Where to?” she asked, pulling out her phone and scrolling through the screen.

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