What Are Friends For? by Sarah Sutton

Author:Sarah Sutton [Sutton, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734232202
Publisher: Golden Crown Publishing, LLC

Detention.

Two weeks’ worth. Turned out Mrs. Secretary hadn’t signed my excused pass as blindly as I’d thought. She called Mom after I left the office, who told her that I did not, in fact, have a doctor’s appointment that morning. Lying and receiving my fifth tardy equaled two weeks’ worth of detention.

It wasn’t as horrible as it sounded. Two weeks of detention was only four days—two Tuesdays and two Thursdays—but still enough to be a drag. I had to sit through an hour of it before I could meet up with Eloise and go shopping.

Eloise now watched me over the rack of clothing, her dark eyes tracking mine. She hadn’t said much since we got to the mall, her attention divided between the clothes and her shoes. She only watched me when she thought I wasn’t looking. But I noticed. And it was hard to ignore. “What?” I asked.

“Nothing.”

“You’re staring.”

“I’m not.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Eloise.”

“You never mentioned how your date went,” she said, sifting through the hangers on the clearance rack. She kept moving the pieces aside, but she didn’t look at the clothing, not really. “You doubled with Elijah, right?”

I fought the urge to roll my eyes, the mere mention of it all setting me on edge. “It sucked. Seriously. I got in a huge fight for Eli.” I angrily pushed a white sweater aside to reveal a lime green t-shirt. It was the same color as Elijah’s backpack. Ugh. “I don’t know what his problem is. He called me a bad influence, Eloise. Me! A bad influence on him. As if he’s three and can’t make choices for himself. I never made him do anything. And really? Me taking him shopping and to parties isn’t that big of a deal.” I rounded another rack of clothing, delving deeper into the store, closer to the underwear section. “I mean, if it’s about Terry, I don’t get why he won’t just tell me, you know? Talk to me. I’m his best friend. Why can’t we talk to each other anymore?”

Eloise trailed after me. “What about Jeremy?”

“Jeremy was the one who set this all into motion!” My frown intensified. “At least, I think. No, Eli was weird even before that. When they picked me up, he seemed…off.”

“I mean, was the date bad because of Jeremy?”

A tangled noise came from my throat, my frustration reaching its peak. “Gosh, Eloise, no. It wasn’t bad because Jeremy—I don’t care about Jeremy. I care about Elijah.”

Eloise’s eyes widened as she looked at me. I hadn’t meant to snap at her—everything just boiled over. Could that have been how it was for Elijah last night—everything had reached a tipping point, and I was just there to take the fire?

It only took a few more beats of Eloise’s silence for me to realize what I’d said. I briefly shut my eyes, blindly picking up a pair of underwear from the tier of cloth. “I mean, I do care about Jeremy. I didn’t mean it like that.”

Gosh, everything was so freaking screwed up.

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