I guess they think if I spend the night camping out on an island where there are boys, I’m going to behave like a rabbit in heat.īoth girls entered Mr. What’s their problem, anyway? Della asked, shaking her head. Abner five times and making him reassure them that it was going to be properly chaperoned and making him promise he’d keep his eye especially on me at all times. Hey-did your parents give you permission to go on the overnight? Maia had short, auburn hair, the curliest hair anyone had ever seen, probably curly enough to make the Guinness Book of World Records! With her round eyeglasses and her short, boyish figure, she reminded Della of Orphan Annie.Īre you going to the Outdoors Club meeting? Maia asked. How do you get your hair to do that? Maia asked. Maia-how long have you been standing there? Slamming the locker shut, she was surprised to see her friend Maia Franklin standing beside her. She always looked calm, cool, and together, even when she didn’t feel that way. With her pale skin, her bright, green eyes, her long, straight black hair, Della was very pretty. She tossed her books to the floor of the locker and fixed her hair, peering into the small, square mirror she had attached to the locker door above the heart. She was confident she could get Gary back if she could talk with him. Of course, the other members of the Outdoors Club would be there too-including Suki Thomas, who had obviously joined just to be close to Gary. The overnight will be so romantic, she thought. Staring at the heart on the locker door, she pictured his wavy blond hair, his lively brown eyes, the way they crinkled when he smiled at her, the tiny freckles on his cheeks. Gary would be there, and she would be able to apologize to him then. And whenever she ran into him in the halls at school, he passed right by without giving her a chance to say anything.ĭella was looking forward to the Outdoors Club overnight. But the prom had come and gone-and Gary was just gone! He hadn’t called her since their fight. She had angrily broken up with him three weeks ago, never dreaming that he would take her seriously, that they wouldn’t make up in time for the spring prom.
She didn’t want to be reminded of Gary every time she opened her locker. Last September someone had scratched the heart, and the words DELLA & GARY inside it, into the gray paint.įor the hundredth time Della told herself to find something to cover it up. She removed it and swung open the locker door, groaning as the heart on the inside of the door came into view. All the way down the long hall, locker doors slammed and kids laughed and shouted to each other, the daily celebration of school letting out. Della O’Connor tugged the combination lock, wondering why she could never get it to open on the first try.
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