So Not the Drama by Paula Chase

So Not the Drama by Paula Chase

Author:Paula Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2012-03-12T16:00:00+00:00


Near midnight, bellies full of ground beef and fried dough, the girls settled down in Kelly’s theater room. The brown walls and the eight rows of chocolate leather recliners wrapped the screening room in perfect movie theater darkness. Pajama clad and armed with their observation journals, the girls spread out, each claiming a recliner in a different row.

Kelly turned the canned lights as high as they would go. “Can you guys see enough to write?”

“Yeah, this is cool,” Mina said through a yawn. “Turn the movie on for background.”

Kelly held up two DVDs.

“You Got Served or Mean Girls?”

“Nobody feel like watching Jessica on the big screen,” Jacinta said.

“Ooh you are so funny. NOT!” Jessica said with far less venom in her words than usual.

“Guess that means You Got Served, huh?” Kelly said, sliding the movie into the machine.

Mina yawned again. “Seriously, I don’t know if I’ll make it through either one.”

“Ice down the back of whoever goes to sleep first,” Kelly said.

Mina fought another yawn. “Shoot, just go ahead and ice me down then. I’ll just fall to sleep dreaming about being Marques Houston’s chick.”

She moved from the recliner to the floor. Stretched out, she laid her head down.

“Un-ah, no you don’t,” Jacinta yelled. “These journals were your idea.You can’t go to sleep yet.”

“Writing them at the end of the night was Jessica’s,” Mina mumbled. “I’ll do mine tomorrow.”

Jacinta put her recliner down with a thump, hopped out of the chair, and joined Mina on the floor. She placed a pencil in Mina’s slack hand. “Here we go. Dear Diary, Jacinta is the baddest chick on the planet. I don’t know why I couldn’t just admit that on day one.”

Mina laughed. “Alright, alright. I can’t be turning in my observations with all those lies.”

Jacinta stretched out beside Mina and tapped her pen on the notebook, waiting for the words to make their way onto the paper.

“I’m almost done,” Jessica announced.

“I would be too if I spent half the night barely saying a word,” Mina said. “You probably already knew what you were going to say anyway.”

“Jealous?” Jessica taunted.

“Yes. Can you do mine, too?” Mina propped herself up on her elbows.

Jessica pretended to go back to writing to hide the little smile playing on her lips. Her head popped up. “Oh, whose house is next?”

The girls grew quiet, waiting for someone to volunteer.

“I volunteer, Cinny,” Mina said, scribbling away.

“Thanks, Princess,” Jacinta said. She shrugged. “Fine with me.”

“I can’t do it this coming Friday,” Jessica warned. “I told you guys, I have a life outside of this soc class.”

“Well, if we do it in two weeks it’s a weekend my aunt will be away. We’d have to do it at my father’s house,” Jacinta said.

Jessica’s snotty voice returned to action. “I heard you lived in The Cove?”

“Yeah ... and?” Jacinta raised an eyebrow.

“Okay, ew, I’m not spending the night in the projects,” Jessica said.

“Okay, ew, the projects wouldn’t want your fake-eye, fake-hair wearing ass there anyway,” Jacinta said.

“Guys, come on,” Kelly said.



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