Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly

Author:Stephanie Tromly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

“I can’t.” We were at the mall. I’d given up on finding a dress for the dance, and Mom was turning down a bite of my chili fries. “I watched this documentary about slaughterhouses and . . . I can’t.”

“Why would you watch a documentary about slaughterhouses?”

“For a date. Not that he made me or anything. It was showing and he wanted to see it, so I went with him. I’d feel like a hypocrite eating that.”

“Well, he’s not here right now.” Then I realized I had no idea if that was true since I didn’t know who the guy was. “Or is he?”

“Are you saying you’re ready to meet him?”

“Are you saying you’re ready to marry him?”

“Why are you being so sassy?”

“I don’t know. Why are you being so defensive?”

“Geez, should I blame hormonal teen-angst or that boy Digby for your new verbal stylings?” Mom said. “What’s going on with the two of you, anyway?”

“Nothing. Stop asking me that. Besides, we don’t hang out as much anymore . . . I mean, since you told me not to.”

“Right . . . because you don’t do things I tell you not to do,” she said. “Anyway, you mind eating alone? I’ll meet up with you in a half hour? I threw all my makeup out. I need cruelty-free.”

“Seriously?”

“One day you’ll get it. It’s unbelievable what you’d do for someone you like. In fact, the more unbelievable, the more you probably like them.” Then she thought about what that sounded like. “Not in a codependent ‘he beats me because he loves me’ way, of course. Because that’s certainly not love, honey. Love never hurts—”

“Okay, Mom! You’re going down a weird road.”

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