Sunny & Matt by Melinda Metz

Author:Melinda Metz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2000-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 9

Sunny & the Girls, Part II

“Come on, come on,” Sunny urged. “You all agree that Matt treated me like trash, right? You all agree I deserve better, right?”

She needed to hear them say it. That fire inside her had almost gone out. It wasn’t hot enough to melt the ice pick of pain anymore. It was hardly hot enough to melt an ice cube.

“So much better,” Tate told her. “No one deserves to be treated the way Matt treated you.”

The embers of Sunny’s anger began to glow a little. She needed more. If she didn’t want to spend the rest of her Sweet Sixteen in her dad’s office crying over Matt Calhoun, she needed a lot more.

“So give me candidates,” Sunny said. “Come on. Who do you think would treat me right?”

“Well, Danno’s up for grabs. But he is incapable of treating anyone right—except himself,” Tate answered. “I’m not completely sure he really believes other people actually exist. I suspect he thinks we’re all androids designed for his amusement.”

“You can’t have Luke,” Daisy chimed in. “But how about Luke’s friend Patrick? He’s a sweetie.”

“Patrick. As in Patrick Foster?” Brittany asked. “Sunny’s way out of his league.”

“But she said she wanted somebody who’d be good to her,” Daisy argued. “Patrick would never act the way Matt did. He’d never condemn anybody without hearing their side.”

Thanks, Daisy, Sunny thought. The anger in Daisy’s tone stoked Sunny’s fire, the fire she needed to survive.

“Since I don’t go to Lincoln, I have no idea what you guys are talking about,” Janelle’s cousin said.

“Sunny’s dirtbag of an ex-boyfriend dumped her because he thought she was cheating on him,” Geena answered. “He didn’t even have the guts to look her in the eye and listen to her side.”

“What is your side?” a girl with a high, breathy voice and a huge mass of auburn hair asked. Sunny figured it must be Janelle’s other cousin. For such a normal-looking girl, Janelle had two strange cousins.

“Sunny doesn’t need a side,” Geena burst out. “Matt’s the one who needs to explain himself.” She grabbed a handful of the olive-oil-and-rosemary potato chips. “So, back to the important question. What do you think about Patrick Foster as a possible new guy?”

In truth, Sunny had no interest in a new guy of any kind. But she thought if she pretended she was ready, pretended that what happened with Matt had simply left her eager to move on, then somehow it would be true.

“Patrick and Sunny,” she said. “It doesn’t sound quite right. Maybe if he changed his name to Rick?” Sunny looked up and down the table. “Rick and Sunny—that sounds kind of cute.”

“Even then, he is not acceptable,” Brittany decreed. “Have you ever seen him in the swimming pool? His back is, like, covered with hair. Worse than Robin Williams’s.”

“Pass,” Sunny said. She turned to Cassandra. “You thought Matt and I looked too much alike. Who do you think I’d look good with?”

Cassandra twisted the silver ring she wore on her pinky.

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