Audrey Hart The Dig (epub)

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.Sigh.―You do know I mean Greece the place and not Grease the movie, right Cee?‖She throws a bikini top at me.Gross.―Well yeah.They go to Greece in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.‖ I give the blank stare, my trademark blank stare that I use to tell teenagers I am not like them.I don‘t know the latest chick flick or the rap song that all the boys in Harris Hall were singing at lunch.I‘m out of it.Happily out of it.I prefer books.―You know the movie, Zoe, with the girls and they go to Greece and the one is like you, except she has a love life.‖―Aaaah.That one.‖―Well, anyway.Greece looks fun.You totally have to send me pictures.‖―Tombs aren‘t really photogenic.‖She zips her suitcase shut.―Why can‘t you ever just be excited about anything? You moan and groan about wanting to go in the dirt all year, and now you‘re going and you‘re like ‗eh.‘‖―Because I‘m not like you.I don‘t get excited forty times a day and feel the need to announce my excitement online.‖―You‘re such a dork.‖―Thank you, Cee.‖Since it‘s the last day of junior year, I decide to try to speak her language.I‘m pretty fluent in teen-speak when I want to be.―I‘m actually kind of wigged out about Greece.‖―Wigged out? Um, okay, Mom.Who says ‗wigged out‘?‖ So much for fluency.―Well,‖ I swallow.―I have a funny feeling, like I won‘t like it there or something.‖―Are you kidding? I listen to you go on about the most boring pyramid-building stuff and finally you‘re going to, like, the land of all those hot gods running around in togas.‖―Um, those ‗hot gods‘ are fictional, CeeCee.As in they don‘t exist,‖ I say, shaking my head.―Maybe I won‘t go.Maybe I‘ll just…maybe I‘ll go with you to Martha‘s Vineyard or something.‖I try to picture a summer on the Vineyard.We‘d go to the beach every day.CeeCee would fall in love four times a week…I look up and see that CeeCee has resumed playing with her phone.She‘s probably texting one of her friends in a panic about her dorky roommate threatening to cramp her style in Prep Land.―You‘re being all drama, Zoe.You‘re going to Greece and you know it.It‘s your destiny and stuff.‖The light shifts.Shadows fall on our adjoined mahogany desks.I liked living in this room and suddenly I feel warm with affection for our view, for our school, for all the parties I didn‘t go to, for all the nights I spent at this desk reading and writing instead.I get the chills.Nightfall is so dramatic this time of year.I don‘t like the word ―destiny.‖ It unnerves me somehow.I hear―destiny‖ and I think ―doom.‖ CeeCee swipes the bikini top off my side of the desk and props herself up on the windowsill.Uh oh.She is going into serious mode.―It‘s okay, Zoe.I know what this is really about.You‘re afraid to fly because of your parents.It‘s totally normal to feel that way.‖ I‘m too tired to tell her that she‘s wrong.I‘m not afraid to fly.It doesn‘t make any sense but I don’t have a phobia of airplanes.I just let people think that I do because it makes me seem normal.If your parents died in an airplane crash, wouldn‘t you be afraid to fly? I wish I wasn‘t so different from everyone.In some ways, life would be easier if I loved Gossip Girl and struggled with a fear of flying overseas.People would ―get‖ me.Sometimes I worry that I don‘t even get me.―Want to go watch Teen Mom?‖ CeeCee asks me.―Sure.‖―For real?‖I nod.I always avoid this kind of stuff at Greeley.But suddenly I find myself following CeeCee down the hall and down the stairs and into the common room.The show has already started by the time we walk in, which means that I am spared the what-is- she-doing-here looks I get on the rare occasion that I do join in.Junior year would have been easier for me if I‘d hung out more.But I say that at the end of every year.I‘ve always been this way.I can only get into something when I know it‘s about to end [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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