Totally Unfair by Nancy N. Rue

Author:Nancy N. Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Zondervan/youth Specialties

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When I left the church, I actually felt like I was untangling. My mind was clearer than it had been in days. The barbed-wire feeling had almost disappeared.

We can do this, I kept thinking all through rehearsal and even as I was falling asleep that night. We can do this.

Too bad I was using the wrong pronoun.

The next day—Saturday—all of us piled into Stevie’s father’s Expedition and went down to Panama Beach, the actual Gulf of Mexico. Even Trent went with us; he didn’t “do” swim trunks, so he’d compromised and worn a pair of shorts that came down to his calves.

Stevie had hardly hit the Hathaway Bridge over the Bay before Celeste started passing around the suntan lotion. Meanwhile, I was spelling out the idea of our all going to see Mr. Wylie—my voice all but disappearing again in the process.

“We can do this,” I said. “I know we can make Mr. Wylie see that Mrs. I. isn’t doing anything wrong—and neither are we.”

I glanced behind me at the third seat where Joy Beth was applying lotion to the back of Trent’s neck—the only place, besides his face, that was actually exposed to the sun. “We’ll really need to look at the stuff you got from the Internet,” I said to him. “You didn’t happen to bring it with you, did you?”

Trent looked at me like I was something out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The rest of the car fell silent, too.

“What?” I said. “We CAN do this. Pastor Ennis was the one who thought of it. You wouldn’t believe how good he is one on one.”

Joy Beth grunted at me.

“I can’t do it,” she said. “I already told you that. Coach Powell will can me.”

“It isn’t like we’re going to stage a protest,” I said. “Nobody even has to know we talked to Mr. Wylie. It’s just a conversation.”

Joy Beth looked dolefully at Trent, who, except for the thick coating of zinc oxide on his nose, was the spitting image of Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh at that point.

“Until we get suspended or something,” he said. “I don’t think Wylie’s changed his mind about us.”

“We’re not going to get suspended if we’re respectful and just give him the facts,” I said. “And if Celeste doesn’t insult him too much.”

Trent just looked at Joy Beth.

“So—if she’s not in, you’re not in?” I said.

“You could do it,” Joy Beth said to him. She shoved her hair behind her ears. “I won’t get mad.”

Trent shook his head. “I’ll give you all the stuff I found on the Internet, but I’m not going back in his office. I’m too close to graduation.” Then he pulled his tiny mouth into a decisive knob, and that was that.

I turned back around and leaned my arms on the console between Celeste and Stevie. Celeste was staring at the road ahead as if she were driving the vehicle.

“You’re in, aren’t you?” I said.

“You really think this is the right thing to do?” I could see a tiny, delicate line forming between Stevie’s eyebrows, just above her sunglasses.

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