The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back (The Ugly Stepsister Series) by Sariah Wilson

Author:Sariah Wilson [Wilson, Sariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2017-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Needless to say, sleep was pretty much out of the question. I tossed and turned the entire night. If he had been lying, he had nearly convinced me.

My head throbbed the next morning, and my head felt stuffy. Stress had completely wrecked my immune system, and I’d started to feel sick.

Ella took one look at me and came back with a glass of orange juice and a cup of green tea. “You cannot get sick. Not today.”

“I know, I know,” I said before I blew my nose into a tissue. I took some DayQuil and put the box into my bag. Today I would stand in front of the entire school and tell them why they should elect me as their senior class president.

I had been so caught up in my Jake obsession that I hadn’t spent much time working on my speech. At about three in the morning, I’d finally gotten up and finished it.

I was not a great public speaker, but I would just have to do the best I could. Cold or no cold.

Jake would be at the house soon to drive me to school. I sent him a text saying that I wasn’t feeling too well and that I would just see him later at school. It took a few minutes, but he finally responded with an “okay.” I wished I could stay home and crawl under my covers, but I had to turn in our English project, and I had to be there for the speeches. It would be my one chance to talk to the student body before they voted.

At school Scott had put up new campaign posters for Jake, but Ella had convinced Trent to help us stick a note on every locker in the school telling students to vote for me.

After calculus I saw Jake. He waved at me, but I turned around and walked in the opposite direction. I could not let him inside my head right now. I wasn’t prepared to talk to him yet.

I couldn’t keep away from him in English, though. He sat down in front of me. “Hey, are you avoiding me?”

“What? No. Of course not. Why would you think that?” Duh, I was obviously avoiding him. I just couldn’t have this conversation with him here. I couldn’t keep it together for the speech if I had some emotional blowout with him. I gave him the manga assignment, and he turned it in to Ms. Aprils at her desk. She flipped through it and smiled at him. Maybe he was right. Aprils did love him, and we probably would get an A.

With the project finally out of the way, I could focus all my attention on the speech. The assembly was scheduled for right after lunch. And lunchtime came all too quickly. My throat started to feel sore. Ella made me drink more orange juice, and I took some more medication.

The bell rang, and my heart beat ridiculously fast. I wasn’t one of those people who

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