Taylor Before and After by Jennie Englund

Author:Jennie Englund
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imprint

FALL

Prompt: Trust.

I stayed home from school Friday with the worst headache ever. All I could do was binge-watch Gilmore Girls.

But Mom figured out that something was wrong. And when she asked me about it, I told her everything.

* * *

“You’re not annoyed, right? At Noelani?” I asked Brielle when I told her about the lice thing. I didn’t want to tell her. She pretty much forced me to.

“Noelani’s a birdbrain,” Brielle said.

“But you’re not mad at her, right?” I asked again. The last thing in the world Noelani could probably deal with on top of having lice was Brielle being mad at her for it.

“First. I. Spent the night. At her house. On Friday. Oh my god, I remember. She was totally scratching. I’m going to have to buy that lice stuff now. And somebody will see me. Never mind, I’ll just send the housekeeper.”

I wished I could take back telling Brielle about Noelani. Any second, she was going to say something to her. She would say I told. Noelani was so nice. This was going to wreck her.

“Bri,” I said, “this is no big thing. Sometimes … people … just get things.”

“WHAT people?” Brielle asked. “I don’t get things. I don’t get lice. Oh my god, no Branson has EVER had lice. I’m the first one with that crap disease.”

“Okay, it’s not a disease,” I said. This was out of control.

Brielle was pulling drama out of nowhere, breathing shallow and fast. “Noelani backstabbed me. She had me over to her STD house…”

“It isn’t an STD,” I said. “Come on, Bri … just … be real.” I wanted to add that this wasn’t about her. But that would’ve been a waste of air. Everything was about Brielle.

She whipped out the Carnivale list from her binder. The corners were folded over now, and a splotch of green tea smoothie stained the bottom.

I could not be the one responsible for nice Noelani getting Cut. “Come on, Bri,” I begged. “Don’t Cut her. She’s your best friend.”

“She kept something from me,” Brielle said. “It’s over.” With her silver Sharpie, she stabbed one angry dot by Noelani’s name.

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