[2011] Epic Fail by Claire Lazebnik

Author:Claire Lazebnik [Lazebnik, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Los Angeles (Calif.), Social Issues, Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women, Preparatory Schools, Family, Juvenile Fiction, United States, Schools, Interpersonal Relations, Love & Romance, Dating (Social Customs), Social Classes, Sisters, Siblings, Peparatory Schools, People & Places, School & Education
ISBN: 9780061921261
Google: ak2zwvWu96AC
Amazon: 0061921262
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2011-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

I was still peering out the window when I heard Kaitlyn scream. Terrified, I raced out of the room and found her in my parents’ bathroom, shrieking at the sight of blood dripping from her hand. There were bits of broken glass all over the place. Dad was downstairs in his office and must not have heard her cries.

I calmed her down, and she told me that she had accidentally knocked a glass jar of Mom’s bath salts into the tub where it had shattered. Worried she’d get in trouble for breaking it, she had tried to clean it up herself and cut her finger on a shard of glass—not too badly, I discovered once I had helped her rinse it off, but it was bleeding enough to thoroughly freak her out.

Layla drifted in to see what the noise was all about and idly informed us that the ancient Romans used to kill people by putting ground-up glass in their drinks, a fact that succeeded in eliciting new screams from our little sister who was now convinced she had inhaled glass powder and wouldn’t survive the night.

I calmed her down from that and said to Layla, “I thought you were going over to Campbell’s tonight.” I pressed a fresh wad of cotton on Kaitlyn’s wound.

“She canceled. Her dad has some big event he wanted her to go to.”

“Oh. Well, I’m stuck home, too.”

“Yeah, I heard.”

“Want to watch a movie? We can check out what’s available On Demand.”

“Okay,” she said. “I’ll make popcorn.” She stopped at the threshold. “But not a stupid PG movie. I’m old enough to see R ones now.”

“But then I can’t watch it,” Kaitlyn wailed. “That’s not fair.”

“You can watch something for little kids in Mom and Dad’s room,” Layla said, with intentionally infuriating condescension as she left the room.

“I hate watching movies all by myself,” Kaitlyn said.

“I’ll stay with you. Hey, I think the bleeding’s stopped.” I lifted the bandage, and she looked down and saw the drying blood on it and started screaming all over again.

Oh, yeah, this was way more fun than any stupid old semiformal.

While Layla and Dad watched a movie that was, in fact, R-rated, to Layla’s delight—and based on some literary novel, to Dad’s—Kaitlyn and I curled up on the bed in my parents’ room to watch some twee teenybopper romance that didn’t have a chance in hell of distracting me from my thoughts.

I wondered if Juliana was having a good time.

Of course she was. She had gone to a dance with a guy she really liked. What was better than that? And she had looked beautiful tonight and they were probably dancing together right at this moment and then they’d ride back in his limo—

Would Derek be in the car with them? And if so, who else? I was tempted to sneak off and text Juliana to ask her if he had brought anyone to the dance, but then I thought Chase might see my text and think I cared who Derek had gone with, and I didn’t care.

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