Varsity Tiebreaker by Ginger Scott

Author:Ginger Scott [Scott, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Miss Write, LLC
Published: 2020-07-22T23:00:00+00:00

14

Abby

It’s been a while since I’ve felt like myself. I told June all I really wanted for my birthday weekend—because yes, I get an entire weekend, and yes, Friday nights are weekend-eligible—was to do something that felt like the old me.

“Anything you want,” she said.

She regretted it the moment the last word left her lips. She could read party all over my face. I don’t care what she says, though. Deep down, June needs tonight, too. She misses us.

“Are you sure you don’t mind driving?” She doesn’t, but it makes me feel polite to ask. I like getting ready at June’s house. There aren’t papers all over her table, and her mom is in a pretty good place. Mine is buried in the fight to give me a life without my father’s greed picking away at it. Tonight, I want to forget that version of myself.

“I’m not going to drink, and the van has plenty of room,” she says while running a brush through her hair. I smile because she’s repeating my talking points.

“Exactly,” I say, leaning close to the small mirror on the back of her door so I can perfect the shade under my eyes.

It feels nice to dress up like this. I’ve been a lot of versions of myself lately—the girl who wears her boyfriend’s oversized sweatshirt, the business woman who gets accused of having a sex tape, the actress who doesn’t know what her character is supposed to look like. It’s nice for once to just be me. My makeup, my skinny jeans and cut-off sweatshirt—my body, my rules. I can feel my confidence coming back already. It’s amazing how much your own unique look can make you feel at home in your skin. My look isn’t everyone’s, but it’s mine.

June’s mom holds the door open for us as we leave, hanging out the door as if we’re still the same little girls she sent off to walk to school by themselves for the very first time in second grade. I’m tempted to hold June’s hand in solidarity.

“Don’t do stupid things!” Mrs. Mabee shouts. She says that to me a lot.

“Nothing you wouldn’t do,” I shout back before getting into the passenger side. She shakes her head at my usual response.

Again—normal.

We head to Naomi’s to pick her up, then stop at Lola’s work as she finishes her shift. She’s a server at the Pancake House, this truck stop joint open twenty-four hours a day, which means she has unlimited access to bacon. I don’t care who a person is, if they say they don’t like bacon I immediately throw them in the sketch category. Because of birthday weekend, Lola swiped me an entire to-go box full. I’m already five pieces in.

“Abby, if you don’t slow down you’re going to be vomiting before you even get close to a shot of tequila,” June says, turning right on the old dirt road a few miles out of town.

“Well, guess what? I’m drinking beer tonight,” I say, winking as I take a bite of my sixth piece.

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