Prince & The Apocalypse by Kara Mcdowell EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kara Mcdowell
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10 DAYS LATER
DATE: SUNDAY, JUNE 12
LOCATION: LONDON, ENGLAND
ITINERARY
9:00 A.M.: PACK
10:00 A.M.: BREAKFAST AT THE WORLD’S END
3:00 P.M.: FLIGHT HOME: (
I miss peanut butter, salsa, and ice cubes. I miss sunshine and my family. I
miss my dog.
But most of all, I miss the girl I thought I was ten days ago, before I
realized I’m the worst kind of traveler: the kind who just wants to go home. I
flew almost four thousand miles for the adventure of a lifetime with my best
friend, and all I got was this lousy homesickness.
Once upon a time, I thought the worst thing an American tourist could be
was obvious. Brooke warned me about all the stereotypes: Americans are
obnoxious and loud. They wear gym shoes when they shouldn’t. They smile
too much.
I vowed not to be that person, even if it meant blisters on my feet and a
week of nonstop whispering. I’d prove how happy I was to be in London by
scowling at people on the street.
I had a plan.
But after spending five days facedown in a hotel toilet, that plan is in
tatters. I might as well parade down Abbey Road in tacky sneakers and a
Stars and Stripes fanny pack, waving my basic bitch flag. I’d consider it if it
meant this trip even remotely resembled the one on my detailed ten-page
itinerary.
Nine pages down, one left to go. My eyes stray to the last item on the list
as I neatly fold a dirty sweater and place it in my suitcase. 3:00 P.M.: Flight
home. Frowny face. I had such high hopes when I penciled that doodle in, the
final touch to my masterpiece years in the making. Now the face mocks me:
one more thing the itinerary got wrong. When that airplane takes off from
Heathrow, I’ll be mentally dancing in the aisle.
The door to our shared hotel room bangs open and Naomi rushes in. I try
to ignore the jealous pang that burns behind my ribs over the fact that she was
out without me. She tosses her hotel key on the TV stand and collapses,
distressed, across my bed. “The prince is missing.”
“Which one?”
“The important one,” she says seriously, showing me a Daily Mail article
on her phone. I glance at the headline: PRINCE THEO GLARINGLY ABSENT FROM
TROOPING THE COLOUR. WITH NO WORD FROM THE PALACE, WE’RE LEFT TO
WONDER: IS THE FUTURE KING SICK, OR JUST PLAYING HOOKY?
“So he skipped an event.” I return my attention to the mountain of clothes
in front of me. It shouldn’t be this difficult to fit them back into my suitcase. I
have acquired nothing on this trip except disenchantment.
Naomi sits up, a protective glint in her eye. “He’s supposed to be working
at this event—”
“Liberal use of the term ‘working.’”
“Trooping the Colour is very important to the monarch,” she says with
complete seriousness.
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