My Week with Him by Joya Goffney EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Joya Goffney
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7:56 p.m.
Riley somehow manages to snap along to the music, despite the
red claws attached to her fingers. My mother would never let me paint my
nails such a grown-woman color or keep them so long and pointy. But
Riley’s parents are lax, and she’s quite honestly super spoiled.
She has a full-on orange-and-pink color-coordinated room, as if she
snatched the whole thing straight out of a Target catalog. And she has her
own attached bathroom and walk-in closet. Even Mal doesn’t have a walkin closet, and his house is the closest I’ve ever come to stepping foot in a
castle.
“Daeja!” Riley shouts from her bedroom.
“What?” Daeja shouts back from the bathroom.
“Come here, babe. Please.” She’s spinning in circles, letting the tulip
skirt of her red dress flip and flap in the wind. Riley looks really good in
red. She’s told me why before, but I can’t remember. Something about her
skin tone. She’s a mixed girl with brown, shoulder-length curly hair—white
dad, Black mom.
Daeja grumbles about doing her eyeliner, but she still comes out
grinning. It’s obvious how beautiful she finds her girlfriend.
I’m sitting on the floor with my back against Riley’s bed frame, painting
my toenails white, while they dance together. We’re supposed to be
pregaming for Mal’s annual Spring Break Bash tonight, but my head isn’t
really in the game. . . . Probably because I’m not going to the party tonight.
Riley’s mom comes waltzing in, wearing fuzzy slippers and a really
sweet-smelling (expensive) perfume, and holding a half-full glass of white
wine. “Girls, look at this.” She holds up her phone.
Riley struts over in her eight-inch heels, not even the tiniest bit scared
of what her mom will say about her outfit. Daeja follows.
“Six Flags wristbands are on sale,” Mrs. Ross explains, before Daeja
and Riley can even read the screen. “We could go have some fun over
spring break. And then when summer rolls around, we could have, like, a
graduation last hurrah there, with all your school friends. Nikki, you too,”
Mrs. Ross says enthusiastically.
I smile over my shoulder, knowing my mom isn’t about to pay for a Six
Flags wristband. Hell, I probably won’t get through this week without her
yelling at me about getting a job. But still I say, “That sounds like fun.”
“I don’t know,” Riley says, popping out her hip. “Over spring break,
sure, but I hate going to Six Flags during the summer. It’s too crowded and
hot. My skin hates too much sun.”
“Your skin hates everything.”
“It’s not my fault that my skin is sensitive,” Riley snaps at Daeja.
Mrs. Ross ignores their bickering, being as used to it as I am. “Rie, is
this what you’re wearing to the party? It’s so cute. My baby’s growing up
too fast.”
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