
Last week’s big break though about the money made us all feel better for a few days. As mysterious as Amanda is, sometimes it’s cool just to have an explanation for something she did.
But around here, things just don’t stay quiet for long.
A little over a week ago, Heidi Bragg caused near riot when she showed up with three backstage passes to the Lady Gaga concert. She had this smug look on her face when she pulled them out of her backpack, pretending like it wasn’t a big deal, but if you know Heidi you know she was aware of everyone’s eyes on her Gaga prize. She kind of casually passed them around, smiling in that fake detached way of hers as everyone drooled over them.
By the end of the day they were missing.
I was walking by Principal Singh’s office when I heard Heidi shrieking. “I left them in my bag and someone stole them! You have to check every locker and find them! Do you even know how much backstage passes for Lady Gaga are worth?” You have to hand it to Heidi; she’s got the wild hysterical stuff totally down. Cold. Ice Cold.
To her credit, Singh didn’t check lockers, at least not that I know of. And I’m pretty sure that would have been all over school.
But it didn’t take long for kids to point the finger at the thief. A few days later, Susanna Bloom showed up wearing a gold charm bracelet. Man, what bad timing. As soon as Heidi caught wind of it, the I-Girls were all over Susanna, wanting to know where she’d gotten it. (And I have to admit, it is a little odd. Susanna’s always going off about the nice stuff she’s got at home, but she comes to school every day in the same crappy clothes. So everybody just figured she was lying about her horses and big house. Girls do that, right?)
Heidi walked right up to her in the hallway, pointing to the bracelet. “That looks expensive,” she noted, cutting her eyes at Susanna. And she would know. Susanna just sort of fingered the charms nervously.
I guess it’s a nice bracelet, and it does look pricey. But the other thing is, it’s only got two charms on it. One is a key. And the other is a coyote.
