Robyn by Jade Parker

Author:Jade Parker [Parker, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545683685
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

“This is going to be so much fun!” Caitlin said.

It was Monday evening, Memorial Day. We’d finished with work. The day had been more insane than I’d ever imagined it could be. Thousands and thousands of people had descended on the water park. I was so glad that we’d be doing something tonight that would be calm. Instead of having Sean take me home and then have to come back by to get me, I’d packed some extra clothes that morning so that I could change at Caitlin’s. Her house was practically my house and vice versa.

We’d both taken quick showers, washed our hair. She was fluffing hers up, using some kind of gel or something to make it look windblown. I was wearing mine loose.

“Did you want to wear one of my headbands?” she asked.

She had several. They were all sparkly. And I’m just not really sparkly.

“No thanks.”

Caitlin was wearing shorts and a T-shirt with sequins on it that spelled out princess. It was part of a set that Sean had given her for her birthday. The other two read queen and diva. He was always buying her things that indicated he thought she was spoiled. Maybe she was. But then he probably was, too.

I was wearing a red tank top, denim shorts, and sandals. I fastened a seashell choker around my neck. I’d bought it in one of the Paradise Falls gift shops last year. It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but Paradise Falls was the closest I’d come to going to a beach. It was one of those things that I wanted to do someday.

Maybe that was one of the reasons that I really enjoyed Paradise Falls. Even though it was all pretend, it was like being on a tropical island away from it all. And sometimes I just wanted to be away from it all.

“Oh, uh, listen, I should probably tell you that I invited Tanner to join us,” Caitlin said.

I caught her gaze in the mirror. She was standing behind me looking guilty. I slowly turned around.

Before I could say anything, she shrugged. “He might not come. He probably won’t. I mean, I just told him that we were going to be at the baseball field, you know, in case he wanted to come watch the fireworks. Maybe we’d see each other.”

“What am I supposed to do if he shows up?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, won’t it be a little awkward?” Two is company, three is a crowd? That sort of thing?

“No, absolutely not. I just wanted to spend a little time with him. Get to know him better. This way, there’s no pressure. Just friends having fun, and who knows? Maybe we’ll get to know each other well enough that he might ask me out.”

But I couldn’t help but think that if he was there, I would really be alone. Caitlin would be giving all her attention to him. And Sean always went with us, but he never hung around with us. He usually ran into friends and would go off with them, and we’d always meet back up after the fireworks.

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