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Louder Than Words
Release Date: 09/16/14
Swoon Romance
Disappointment has been on speed dial in Ellen
Grayson's life lately. Her dad's dead, her mom is numbing the grief with drugs
and alcohol, and her so-called friends are slowly abandoning her. Trusting a
popular teacher with her troubles should have been safe, shouldn't have led to
an unwelcome seduction attempt, shouldn't have sent her running to the girls'
bathroom for the final moments of her Junior year. Lesson learned. Best to keep
all the sordid details of her life to herself.
Enter Rex Jacobi, a cocky teen recently transplanted from New York and fellow summer camp employee. Though his quick wit and confidence draws her in, she's not letting him get too close, not til she's sure she can trust him. By the time Rex's charming persistence wears down her resistance, it's too late. He's put Ellen on the perma-pal shelf and shifted his romantic attentions to her arch-rival. Even worse, the teacher who tried to seduce her is still misbehaving with impunity.
With her ability to trust as shaky as a chastity vow on prom night, Ellen must decide if she has enough remaining courage to speak up about her teacher and risk retribution, to tell Rex how she feels and risk heartbreak, or hold all her secrets inside, the only safe place she knows.
Enter Rex Jacobi, a cocky teen recently transplanted from New York and fellow summer camp employee. Though his quick wit and confidence draws her in, she's not letting him get too close, not til she's sure she can trust him. By the time Rex's charming persistence wears down her resistance, it's too late. He's put Ellen on the perma-pal shelf and shifted his romantic attentions to her arch-rival. Even worse, the teacher who tried to seduce her is still misbehaving with impunity.
With her ability to trust as shaky as a chastity vow on prom night, Ellen must decide if she has enough remaining courage to speak up about her teacher and risk retribution, to tell Rex how she feels and risk heartbreak, or hold all her secrets inside, the only safe place she knows.
"Milkboarding in the Cafeteria"
I finish chewing and
begin to sputter something about how she’s imagining it when a white curtain of
liquid cascades down the front of my face. Shocked, I jump up from my seat.
“What the … ”
Two of the girls from
the Easy Chair club stand next to me, one with an upended milk carton in her
hand. They’re laughing and everyone at the nearby tables is watching and
snickering as I snatch up a handful of napkins to wipe my face.
“No use crying over
spilt milk,” the one who poured the milk says.
Her friend says, “That’s
for Mr. Hamer, you lying bitch.”
“What’d you do that for?
Are you crazy?” Leanne bolts around to my side of the table. “You have no idea
what’s going on!”
“I know a liar when I
see one,” Milk-Pourer’s friend says.
“And a drug addict,”
Milk Girl tacks on. “Maybe she thought she’d blackmail Mr. Hamer into letting
her use his lab to cook up some meth.”
Milk Girl never sees the
hands that shove her to the ground. In the background, someone is screaming.
I’m too busy waterboarding Milk Girl with my own dairy beverage to care.
Milk Girl wails beneath
the stream of liquid, thrashing her legs but seeing as how I’m sitting on her
body with her arms pinned between my thighs and her sides she’s not going
anywhere until I let her up.
Or someone pulls me off.
Milk Girl’s rescuer sets
me on my feet but retains an iron lock on my arms.
Mr. Delvecchio lowers
his face to mine. “Ellen!”
I peer around him, my
pulse pounding through my veins, and watch as another teacher helps Milk Girl
to her feet.
“These two started it,”
Leanne says to Delvecchio in my defense.
“The four of you, to the
office! Now! The rest of you, return to your tables!” Delvecchio’s bark sends
the crowd scurrying, all but one that is. Rex has arrived and stands nearby
watching me, his brows puckered, his mouth open.
“What’s going on?” he
asks.
I’m too mortified and
agitated to answer him. Delvecchio nudges me forward. I need no further
encouragement to walk on, away from Rex, out of the cafeteria, away from all
the dog-piling students who smell blood.
About the Author
Iris St. Clair is the pen name for a long-suffering
cubicle worker by day, a Walter Mitty-like dreamer by night. (Her alter ego
Tatiana Ivanadance also choreographs gravity-defying routines in those
fantasies, but that's another bio.)
No matter what genre she writes, she prefers witty,
insecure heroines and kind, persistent heroes able to break through to the
gooey heart inside.
In high school she was voted most likely to win at
Monopoly and Clue, but least likely to throw a ball anywhere near a target.
Thank goodness writing requires less hand-eye coordination, punctuation errors
notwithstanding.
Iris believes in the two-year "fish or cut
bait" dating rule and has a 20+ year marriage and two teenaged sons as
proof of concept. She lives, writes, dreams and dances in the rainy Portland,
OR area.
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