Trouble

Zusatztext "The story speaks to the teen experience and doesn’t get bogged down in the slut-shaming that books with more negative outcomes reinforce." Informationen zum Autor Non Pratt is the author of the acclaimed Trouble and Remix . After graduating from Trinity College Cambridge! she became a book editor at Usborne! working on the bestselling Sticker Dolly Dressing and Things to Make and Do series. She lives in London with her husband and small(ish) child and writes full time. Find her on Twitter @NonPratt. Trouble Hannah So I had sex with Fletch again last night. It was all right, better than last time anyway, and Fletch is a laugh. And he’s not so bad-looking . . . although not so good without his clothes on. We didn’t cuddle afterward—that’s not really how it is with us. We were dressed and downstairs with our history books open by the time his mom came in, although you could tell she didn’t buy it the way she gave me evils when Fletch’s little brother ran over to show me the crown he’d made at school. Whatever. She might think she knows me by looking at the length of my skirt, but it’s her youngest son who’s got me sussed. Kids see all the way to your soul. What you wear and how you look mean nothing to them. I showered as soon as I got in. No one questioned me about it. Why would they? I shower a lot. Mom asked me about my homework, so I lied, but she asked to see it and we had a fight. There was a lot of screaming (her), a few tears (her), and finally a grudging “I’ll do it after EastEnders” (me—although I wished she’d offered to do it). I never even got started I was so knackered. This morning I’d planned to get it done before school, but Lola threw a tantrum because she’d already eaten all her favorite cereals from the variety pack. Mom’s attempt to make it better by adding chocolate milk to cornflakes was an epic fail, and Lola ended up spilling half of it on her uniform as she poured it in the bin. Guess who had to clean it up? I barely had time to grab my cold toast as Robert hustled us out and into the car. I’ve no choice but to do my homework now. Robert holds off for all of five minutes before it starts. “I thought you did that last night?” “Well, I didn’t,” I say, my eyes still on the worksheet I’ve got flattened on my thigh. Despite Lola’s tuneless singing in the back, I hear Robert take a deep breath and let it out slowly. “You lied to your mother.” “No, I didn’t. I said I’d do it after EastEnders—this is after EastEnders, isn’t it?” “Don’t be so clever.” I nearly point out that clever is exactly what everyone does want me to be, but I don’t want a fight. “She just wants what’s best for you.” “Mm-hm,” I reply, my lips a tight line as I bite down on any more comebacks. “You need to stop being so hard on your mom, Hannah,” he says, tapping the turn signal with his middle finger. “She needs to stop being so hard on me,” I reply. I swear I just heard a sigh. “It’s true,” I say. “She’s always on at me about something.” “She loves you. She worries about you.” It’s only because Lola’s too young for them to worry about—give her another ten years and she’ll be getting the same shit as me. “Tell her not to bother.” That was definitely a sigh. “Perhaps if you tried applying yourself to your schoolwork a little more . . .” “What makes you think I’m not?” “You spend so much time out with Katie and . . .” I look up to see a frown crease his forehead. He has no idea who else I spend time with and opts for a lame “. . . your friends. And your marks aren’t what they should be.” “Should they be more like Jay’s?” I say, changing a “4” to a “7” in my las...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Leonie Pratt, Non Pratt
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 99 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 10.06.2014, verspätet
• EAN: 9781442497726
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-9772-6
• Seiten: 384
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher