Silentious (Summit Middle School) by Freeman Shannon

Author:Freeman, Shannon [Freeman, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Published: 2015-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Get it Right or Else

It was the day of the show. All of the participants had already been pulled out of class for the last-minute preparations. Mai, Carson, and Emma were in the dance room practicing their routine. When they arrived at Emma’s solo, she missed her cue and Mai snapped.

“Emma, get it right! You’re not focused.” “I’m trying, Mai. Lighten up.” “Look, I told you both that if we were

going to do this, then it wasn’t going to be half-done. I’m the singer. I’m the one who will be the laughingstock of the school if we don’t pull this off.” She stormed out of the room to get a drink of water.

“We know!” Emma snapped back. “She needs to calm down,” Carson said. “I’ll go talk to her. You practice. You have to know when to enter the stage.”

“I do! I just made a little mistake,” Emma yelled as Carson left to meet Mai.

“Hey, you okay?” Carson asked Mai, who was cooling off next to the water fountain.

“Yeah, I’m good.”

“Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Or on us. It’s a school talent show for God’s sake, not Broadway.”

“That’s easy for you to say. Your mom made our costumes. I had to hide the fact that I was even in a talent show. There’s a big difference.”

“I see your point. But you are going to have to chill out. Or you may be the one to choke up there.”

Mai studied the floor. “Let’s go back in,” she said.

Emma was practicing her heart out when the girls went back into the dance studio.

“That was really good,” Mai said, complimenting her friend.

Emma was out of breath. But she felt good about her performance too. “I told you both that I had this.”

“I’m just stressed, Emma. You know I didn’t tell Mother or Father that I was doing this, right?”

“What’s to tell?”

“Nothing.” Mai rolled her eyes. “You still don’t get it. If it’s not about math, science, or English, they aren’t supporting it.”

“Social studies?” Carson asked, shaking her head.

“You know what I mean.”

“It’s okay. We are going to do just fine,” Emma said.

Holden came rushing in. “Hey, I can’t make the fog machine work. I don’t know what’s wrong.”

“Get Mister Blanton and ask him. He works in the shop room. He can fix anything,” Mai told him.

“Got it! I’ll make it work. I promise …” his voice trailed off as he ran back down the hall.

If something could go wrong, it usually did. That’s why Mai was happy singing in the shower. All of this was just too much. Too stressful. And somehow, some way, she had to keep it hidden from her father.

What if she broke her leg? What if the school called her house? Those were only a couple of ways that this little plan could fail. Many others had floated through her head day and night. But even the thought of her dad knowing that she had disobeyed him kept her up at night. It wasn’t fair to take it out on her friends.

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