Zombie Blondes by Brian James

Author:Brian James [James, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312573751
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2008-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

Maggie introduces the rest of the cheerleaders to me before homeroom. Motoring off a series of names that all sound alike because they all start with the same letter. I try my best to memorize them all, terrified that I’m going to call someone by the wrong name. I don’t want to do anything to mess this up. Don’t want to make any enemies on my first chance at being popular.

I feel like a puppy surrounded by children on a playground as the cheerleaders swarm around my locker. Getting attention from all sides and I don’t know where to turn or what to say. Maggie’s like the proud owner, showing me off and making sure everyone gets a turn to pet me. She stands next to me and makes sure I’m not smothered as each girl pushes closer to make me feel welcome.

Not every girl. A few keep their distance. Morgan and Miranda among them. Their sour faces are dead giveaways that if this was a vote, they were on the losing end. But they are far outnumbered by the rest of the girls who are drowning me with niceness and I realize that I’d blown everything out of proportion over the last week. There wasn’t a schoolwide conspiracy to sabotage me. It was only a handful of stuck-up snobs, and I let them get to me the way I always do.

Whatever.

It doesn’t matter now. Their insults don’t mean anything anymore because I’m being showered with compliments from everyone else. And I sort of take pleasure in Morgan’s and Miranda’s tragic expressions as they linger in the background, having failed to turn the world against me.

I hear Meredith telling everyone how she knew it from the first time she saw me. Some of the other girls are complimenting her. I’m her first recruit. I guess you need to be invited onto the squad, and if someone makes it, it’s just as big a deal for the person who recruited her as it is for the recruit. It also means she’s sort of responsible for making sure I know the rules. That’s okay with me. She’s probably who I would’ve picked if I had the choice, anyway.

I take in the voices swirling around me like the humming of birds. Trying to keep up with who is saying what but getting lost as the words spin around like a carousel, bouncing off the painted lockers, painted doors, and painted cinder blocks that line the halls.

“Where are you sitting at lunch? You’re going to sit with us, right?’

“Of course she is.”

“Isn’t that sweater great on her? It’s the perfect color.”

“It would look terrible on me.”

“Where else would she sit?”

“I have an outfit that would look amazing on you.”

“Make sure we save her a seat.”

“I’ll bring it in tomorrow. You can totally borrow it forever.”

Everyone is speaking at once and I don’t get the chance to answer any of them. I can only stand there as my eyes dart back and forth and grow dizzy.

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