Sally's Bones by MacKenzie Cadenhead

Author:MacKenzie Cadenhead
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

On the first day of school after her slumber party, Sally entered the building braced for Viola’s attack. Her entire weekend had been spent imagining horrifying scenarios, each worse than the next. Sally knew that she had never asked for this. All she ever wanted was a friend. But with each new waking nightmare came the same crystal-clear revelation: though she might not deserve Viola’s cruelty, she wasn’t going take it lying down. Sally would field anything Viola threw at her, and she would not go down without a knock-down, drag-out, kicking-and-screaming fight.

Unfortunately, Viola’s wartime tactic was something Sally was entirely unprepared for. The armor she built was useless. The strategies she laid out, irrelevant. Viola’s attack was brilliant, and had she not been so utterly unraveled by it, Sally might even have been impressed. To Sally’s shock, terror, and awe, Viola Vanderperfect did the one thing she would never have imagined: absolutely nothing.

On Monday, Viola completely avoided her nemesis, finding clever ways to pass unnoticed in the halls. On Tuesday, she made a point of ignoring Sally, refusing to make eye contact when their paths did cross. But by the end of the week, the teenaged terrorist had actually acknowledged Sally on one occasion. And after ten days of shared lunch periods, Viola seemed resigned to her enemy’s presence in her social circle, even addressing Sally directly in conversation twice.

By the time one month had passed, Sally was a complete wreck. If Viola had come at her directly, Sally could have handled it. She would have fought back, with truth and justice on her side. But the anticipation was killing her. Not knowing when Viola was going to strike or what she was truly plotting behind those arctic-blue eyes quickly became too much for Sally to bear.

She began missing school, and when she was there, she made regular visits to the nurse’s office. When she was not in class, Bones was always at her side, but they played less and less. The anonymous notes had stopped altogether now, but even that was little comfort to Sally. It was all about Viola.

Sally wanted only to hurry home each day, lock the front door tight, and barricade herself in her room until it was time for dinner. Late evenings were spent listening to depressing emo-pop-rock until, mercifully, it was time for bed.

It was on a Thursday, almost five weeks after Viola’s silent war had begun, when Bones seemed finally to have had enough. He was trotting behind a pitifully plodding Sally when he spotted their archenemy loitering beneath a cherry tree. Before Sally knew it, Bones had charged over to Viola and was giving her a piece of his mind.

“Grwoof Rara…Rararara…Rara…Ra,” Bones said as Sally scooped him up in her arms.

“Bones, stop!” she pleaded. “Viola, I’m so sorry. I don’t know what’s gotten into him.”

“It’s OK,” Viola said, and she turned to enter the school.

“What do you mean, ‘it’s OK’?” Sally asked. Her voice cracked, and she realized she was on the verge of tears.

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