Violet in Bloom by Lauren Myracle

Author:Lauren Myracle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: 2011-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

a good night’s sleep can do wonders. Katie-Rose woke up determined to do the right thing, and do the right thing she will. She will forgive Yasaman! She will be the better person. The bigger person! No matter that she’s tiny. When it comes to friendship, Katie-Rose has come to the conclusion that you just have to love your BFFs no matter what, especially when they’re not just BFFs, but FFFs.

Anyway, Katie-Rose knows she’s no saint herself. That’s what she’s thinking about during journal writing time. They’re supposed to be writing about where they like to go to be alone, but Katie-Rose doesn’t like to be alone. Ever. So she makes up her own writing prompt called “Telephone Etiquette: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth.”

It’s about how she should have talked to Yasaman when Yasaman called last night. Then all their yuckiness would be over already. Instead, she made Chrissy lie and tell Yasaman she wasn’t there. Chrissy wasn’t pleased.

“You’re not going to solve anything by avoiding her,” Chrissy told her after hanging up. She cocked her head. “Unless . . . are you trying to punish her?”

“What? No!” Katie-Rose replied hotly.

“Well, she sounded sad,” Chrissy said. “I’m just saying.”

Scribbling away in her journal, Katie-Rose admits how lame she was not to take Yasaman’s call. she writes, She chews on the tip of her pencil. How? How will she make it up to her?

Inspiration strikes! In addition to forgiving Yasaman in her head for all the Natalia stupidness, she will go that extra step and apologize to Yasaman for being so immature about it all. With words. Which will be hard, because it’s scary to apologize to someone. It makes you feel—if you’re Katie-Rose, that is—unsure of your footing, and Katie-Rose, for one, is a girl who likes to feel extremely sure of her footing at all times.

But. For a friend? For Yasaman?

, she writes, setting her jaw.

She’s glad when journal writing officially comes to an end. After that is morning math, and then it’s snack break. Snack break means stretching and moving around and chatting, which for Katie-Rose means going over to Yasaman—who’s only one desk away, though today the space between them seems huge—and saying all the stuff she wants to say before she loses her nerve.

She rises from her seat. From the corner of her eye, she sees Natalia rising from her seat, too. Oh no you don’t, Katie-Rose thinks, sidling around her chair and quickly closing the gap between her and Yasaman. She presses her hip into the edge of Yasaman’s desk to form a wall between the two of them and anyone else.

“Hi,” Katie-Rose says. She wraps her arms around herself. Her hands find her armpits and worm their way in.

“Hi,” Yasaman says uncertainly.

“I’m really sorry for not answering the phone last night,” Katie-Rose says in a rush. She glances over her shoulder and sees that Natalia has lowered herself back into her seat, but not in a permanent-looking way. She’s perched on the edge of her chair, her posture stiff.

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