The Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Serena Kaylor
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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I cannot believe that Joshua Stallings has somehow managed to ruin school
supplies for me.
Me, of all people. The girl whose divorced parents draw straws every
year over who’s stuck dragging her around for back-to-school shopping. It
takes up at least half a day while I float down every single aisle and caress
each paper clip and mechanical pencil like a benediction. I have a legitimate
sticky-note addiction. I ask for gel pens in my Christmas stocking.
I grab a pack of highlighters like they’re a life raft and squeeze my eyes
shut. See? This is still exciting! You can color-code your notes with this
pastel multipack and the serotonin from that will practically drown you.
“Momma, Marlowe’s praying to some highlighters!”
Eyes are open and highlighters are back on the shelf before my very
Methodist mother can round the corner and see another thing to be
concerned about.
“I’m not praying, Blue,” I say, asking God and the pristine shelves of
the Super Buy to find me a sliver of patience. “I was just testing
something.”
“You are so weird,” she exhales through fourteen years of despair from
having been saddled with me as an older sister. She’s recently taken to
correcting people with a quick “Marlowe is my half sister,” as if that other
set of genes made a world of difference. “Can’t you just pick some
notebooks like a normal person?”
Well, that’s part of the problem, isn’t it? At least for Josh.
We’re all just clumps of stars and carbon, but my particular flavor of
cosmic particles is not exactly popular. Almost as if there were a few
substandard atoms tucked away in the curve of my clavicle, or the shell of
my ear. A strangeness that poisons the whole batch.
I smile, my skin stretched so tight I could burst. “Why don’t you just
pick some out for me?” The entire experience is already ruined, and I need
to pull the lever and eject myself from this day before it takes me down
with it.
She perks up, blood in the water. “You’ve never let me do that before.”
I shrug. “Surprise me.”
She spins, her lime-green bodysuit twinkling. The lighting here would
be unflattering on anyone else, but my baby sister shines. Even after an
hour of gymnastics practice, she’s glowing, and I have no concerns about
her starting her first year of high school with anything less than complete
adoration from everyone she meets. She’s every inch our mother’s
daughter: a peacock, or a swan, or—a unicorn. Sunny blond hair, a golden
Georgia tan, and a wall full of equestrian medals, pageant crowns, and
cheerleading trophies. The perfect River Haven girl.
I, on the other hand, am solidly in badger territory. There’s a lot to be
said for that, though. I’m smart, efficient, and reliable. Usually solitary but
can work with a group in a pinch.
The type of River Haven girl who was
happily on the sidelines, quietly winning medals in math and spending all
her time with her two badger best friends, until another peacock pulled her
into the spotlight with him.
Blue grabs notebooks, pressing their covers tightly against her spandex
so I can’t see.
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